Animals and Wildlife

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.

In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday by defeating the male behemoth that killed her cub this summer.

A 74-year-old Colorado man was injured in his home by a black bear after the animal and its three cubs opened a partially cracked sliding glass door, authorities said.

A whale that washed ashore on a beach in Cuba could not be returned to the open ocean and died, NBC News reported, despite efforts from local rescuers. 

A whale that washed ashore on a beach in Cuba could not be returned to the open ocean and died, NBC News reported, despite efforts from local rescuers. 

More than a dozen tigers have died after contracting bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam.

Turns out, Nibi the beaver won’t have to learn how to live in the wild on its own after all.

Voting has started in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve.

Jasper and his “Irish twin” sister, Ruby, are the first mandrills to be born at the zoo since 1995.