Animals

As a mysterious and potentially fatal illness has sickened hundreds of dogs across the country and left veterinarians scrambling to monitor pets, researchers may have found a culprit behind the disease.

Ever wondered how the National Zoo keeps animals cozy when it gets chilly outside? News4’s Joseph Olmo talks to zookeepers about their techniques to keep flamingoes, lions and other animals comfortable in cold weather.

“Are they so ugly they’re cute, or are they so cute that it’s ugly?” Basil the one-eyed opossum at the National Zoo has quite the Cinderella story. NBC4’s Tommy McFly reports.

The Humane Rescue Alliance (HRA) is urging the D.C. community to help place 48 dogs from its shelters into new homes within 48 hours.  The HRA is seeing what they called an “unprecedented increase” in animal intakes, with intakes up 40% since last year, the group said Thursday. HRA is caring for more than 145 adoptable dogs and calling on…

African Sulcata tortoises are known to escape from their enclosures by digging.

A deer darted through the halls of a Pennsylvania middle school on Wednesday morning.

Who will it be? The meerkats, the eagle, the opossum or the otter? News4’s Tommy McFly has the latest on the vote for D.C.’s next animal obsession.

Did you know the happiest hound in America lives in Fort Worth? His name is Hershey and he’s got lots of fur friends.

Scientists discovered that female frogs are partaking in “tonic immobility.” Here’s why scientists say it is essential for the amphibians’ survival.

Prosecutors allege Charles Limmer made tens of thousands of dollars over the past year by illegally trafficking flying insects, including endangered birdwing butterflies — whose numbers have fallen because of diminishing habitat and illegal poaching.

An African slender-nosed crocodile at Oregon Zoo in Portland, Ore., was filmed playing with a pumpkin.

These insects may be making headlines in modern times, but they’re not new. Mentions of bedbbugs can be found in medieval and classical Greek texts.

A Brooklyn rat hitched a ride to upstate New York.

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

Officials searched an east Indianapolis neighborhood overnight Wednesday after a Patas monkey named Momo escaped from a nearby house.

A mom shielded her son, who had Down syndrome, after a bear jumped on a picnic table, eating tacos and enchiladas.

A rare “Dumbo” octopus was filmed 1,682 meters below the surface in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument near Honolulu, Hawaii.

A man is facing more than 180 charges after a drug raid revealed he was running an illegal puppy mill out of his Davie home, authorities said.

“The practice of equine tail docking was discontinued earlier this year,” Budweiser’s parent company Anheuser-Busch said in a statement. “The safety and well-being of our beloved Clydesdales is our top priority.”

The 61-year-old retired firefighter rescued six baby possums after spotting their mother on the road.