Animals and Wildlife

A young deer surprised shoppers Thursday when it ran through the aisles of a Sam’s Club with a police officer in pursuit.

A deer wanders into a Sam’s Club with a police officer in pursuit Nov. 30, 2023.

While dogs continue to be sickened by a mysterious respiratory disease that’s going around, a Redlands coffee shop owner was disheartened to share she had to cancel an event aimed to benefit shelter animals because of the illness.

A Redlands coffee shop owner cancelled a fundraiser to benefit an animal shelter due to a deadly canine respiratory disease going around. Tony Shin reports for NBC4 News on Dec. 1, 2023.

For the first time, the scientists tracked the sleeping behavior of chinstrap penguins in an Antarctic breeding colony by attaching sensors that measure brain waves.

Firefighters had to crawl across the frozen lake to rescue the deer that was struggling to get off the thin ice.

The De Winton’s golden mole — a small, blind burrower with “super-hearing powers” — had been lost to science since 1936.

From a kangaroo seemingly rocking out on an air guitar to a fox taking a “smoke break” on a twig cigar, the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Photo Award winners and finalists are a hoot and will surely make you say “animals, they’re just like us.”

An Arizona homeowner was shocked to find not one but two western diamondback rattlesnakes in the wall of his bathroom.

The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed threatened species protections under a Biden administration proposal.

Video shows two black bear cubs enjoying a giant pumpkin in Ramona. The 467-pound gourd was donated to the wildlife center by an Escondido couple who wanted it to have a greater purpose.

With the giant pandas leaving Washington, D.C., you can still get your panda fix watching adorable red panda cubs at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Over the weekend, hunters nabbed one of the heaviest Burmese pythons ever recorded in the state of Florida.

A man was attacked by two otters in Placer County, California while he was out swimming at a lake. KCRA’s Orko Manna has the story.

Next year, the organization will begin to rename around 80 species found in the U.S. and Canada

If you love a California park like Pinnacles or Joshua Tree, chances are bats do, too.

Botanical gardens and zoos across the country have become go-to destinations for Halloween. The festivities and fun also are a chance to inspire kids and grownups to learn about nature.

A photographer for the Columbus Zoo in Ohio has the inside scoop on how to grow award-winning pumpkins.

A new study published in the Royal Society found that female European common frogs avoid aggressive male frogs during mating season by playing dead.

A Brooklyn man on his way to a wedding in Upstate New York discovered a rodent hitchhiking on the hood of his car.