From the slow moving sloth to the misunderstood pitbull, this is your guide to various animal awareness days of each month.

Snakes come in various sizes, colors, and temperaments, with some being friendly and suitable as pets too. This guide ...

Pygmy seahorses, about the size of a fingernail, are some of the smallest vertebrates in the world. First discovered in 1969, little was known about the creatures. But in the early 2000s ...

People searching for their much-loved critters, lost pets that have been separated from their families, and worried locals sharing photos of those animals that have not been found: The number of ...

However, vaccines also provide important protections for our nonhuman companions, including the most common pets: dogs and cats. Yet, as my research published in 2024 in the American Journal of ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — After Poppy, the Metro Richmond Zoo’s newest baby pygmy hippo became a viral sensation on social media, she and her mother are now on view each day through a ...

But with the enormous influx of pets from the Los Angeles fires, the dogs and cats and critters that have been temporarily displaced and separated from their people, shelter space around the ...

Mother hippo Iris and baby Poppy take a dip in a shallow pool. If you happened to be a pygmy hippo born in 2024, then you’re an internet superstar. The world first went bonkers for Moo Deng ...

Still, many people have had to hand over their pets to Harvilicz for now. “I had a woman drop off four dogs,” Harvilicz said. “I was up all night helping people who needed places for their ...

What could possibly go wrong? Pets of any kind have long been banned from the research base located on Antarctica, but a cat-loving group of scientists want to change that. At McMurdo Station ...

Generally these snakes are found in the diverse habitats – from deserts to forested regions. Thirdly Oklahoma hosts three rattlesnake species: the Prairie/Western, Western massasauga, and Western ...