Animals

Earlier this month, police in Tacoma, Washington had their hands full with a non-compliant pig.

Dogs are now welcome at certain sites on South Beach and Mid Beach, in addition to the North Beach site already established, called Bark Beach.  

The N.H. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is scrambling to care for a “crippling” influx of rapidly reproducing mice

The cat’s remains were found in Yakutia, Russia, and were determined to be those of a 3-week-old cub.

In case you can’t get enough of the pygmy hippo Moo Deng from Thailand, there’s now an official song featuring the internet’s favorite baby animal.

Peanut, a social media star pet squirrel seized and euthanized by authorities in New York, has tested negative for rabies.

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.

An additional 24 monkeys believed to be among 43 that escaped a South Carolina research facility last week have been recovered, and eyes are on a “sizable group” nearby, police said Sunday, NBC News reported.

Congratulations are in order for one special hound!

Locals were urged to lock windows and doors and not to interact with the monkeys.

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.

Peanut, who has amassed more than half a million Instagram followers, was euthanized by officials to be tested for rabies.

The Infinite Monkey Theorem is “grossly misleading in the real world,” one of the Australian mathematicians behind a new study questioning the age-old maxim told NBC News.

A New York man who turned a rescued squirrel into a social media star called Peanut is pleading with state authorities to return his beloved pet after they seized it during a raid.

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 bear was caught on camera moving a trash can outside this Alabama home.

A new study shows a Burmese python’s maximal gape is 10.2 inches. The measurements equate to a circumference of 32 inches.