An animal cruelty investigation was launched after law enforcement in a New York town seized more than 80 domestic and exotic animals from a home — and it's not the first time the homeowner has faced ...

Cops rescued dozens of neglected animals from a rancid upstate New York home, including exotic critters like peacocks, wallabies, tarantulas and even an Australian bearded dragon lizard. Linda Hickey, ...

When I headed to Montana to visit the American Prairie, I had bison on my mind. They are the quintessential plains animal and North America’s largest land mammal. But what I didn’t expect was for a ...

The working title is "Prairie Dogs: Communication and Community in an Animal Society." Slobodchikoff conducted most of his research on the Gunnison's prairie dog species in the vicinity of Flagstaff.

When you come across the name of an animal, you usually expect it to describe something true about its behaviour, appearance or origins, yet many names tell a very different story. You may picture a ...

It's not every day a prairie dog goes viral for villain behavior, but then again, Chunk isn't your average rodent. Captured on camera at the Texas Wildlife Park, a zoo in Mountain Home, Texas, the ...

Black-tailed prairie dogs eat vegetation, create burrows and clear ground. Do those habits impact the spread of wildfires? Researchers from the University of Arizona are calling for more ...