Animals and Wildlife

Mexican gray wolves are protected under the Endangered Species Act. Killing a Mexican wolf can result in criminal penalties of up to $50,000, and/or up to one year in jail, seizure of firearms, vehicles, and buildings involved in the crime, along with a potential civil penalty of up to $25,000.

The 5-week-old pups, determined healthy and well, were found by firefighters under a car on fire in Palmdale last week.

Animal campaigners are calling for a ban on the public sale of fireworks after a baby red panda was thought to have died from stress related to the noise.

An emperor penguin found malnourished far from its Antarctic home on the Australian south coast is being cared for by a wildlife expert.

After four days stuck alone on a cliff in West Oahu, a baby goat was carried down by hikers and brought to an animal sanctuary.

Pesto is growing up!

Key deer, the smallest subspecies of the white-tailed deer that live only in the piney and marshy wetlands of the Florida Keys, have always faced risks — mostly from being hit by cars speeding along U.S. Highway 1. Now they’re facing new perils from saltwater intrusion, development and extreme weather, which could eventually force them to be moved out of...

More than half of the 43 monkeys were recovered unharmed.

Just when you thought Moo Deng was the only celebrity baby pygmy hippopotamus taking the world by storm in 2024, along comes another one.

A Florida surfer says he’s thankful to be alive after being attacked by a shark not once, but twice now in his lifetime.

A South Florida surfer says he’s thankful to be alive after being attacked by a shark not once, but twice now in his lifetime. NBC6’s Bri Buckley reports.

A South Florida man has his hands and heart full trying to rescue dogs abandoned in Miami-Dade County. NBC6’s Julia Bagg reports.

A police department in Colorado got a bizarre call that led them to a “high-speed chase” of a fugitive on Thursday morning: A runaway pet Kangaroo.

The Burmese pythons have such large gapes because their lower jawbones are not fused at the front, and their skin is especially elastic.

A loggerhead sea turtle is back in the ocean following months of rehabilitation.

The bear known as Grizzly 399 was killed Tuesday evening after being hit by a car in Wyoming, according to officials.

In a case stemming from a man who killed a pit bull when he and his Chihuahua felt threatened, an appeals court ruled Wednesday that Florida’s “stand your ground” self-defense law can apply to cases involving animals.

Officials began an operation in Hollywood to save a deer that appears to have a bone stuck in its mouth and throat.

Editor’s note: Some readers might find the images included in this story disturbing. Orleans police shared three photos of the shark on Facebook on Tuesday, showing the dead shark on the back of a flatbed truck. “Not one of our typical calls for service,” the department said. “Not is it one for our local duty tow, Nauset Recovery. But, as...

A Washington state woman called 911 after her home was swarmed by masked intruders, aka scores of hungry raccoons.