For over a decade it seemed like Irma the dog would never find a forever home of her own, then something incredible happened. When Susanne Toivonen, a shelter volunteer, first met Irma, she learned ...

APOPKA, Fla. — Florida wildlife experts are seeing a sharp rise in people surrendering exotic pets — and, even more alarming, releasing nonnative species directly into the wild. The growing trend of ...

A monkey who spent several days on the lam after escaping from a truck that crashed on a rural Mississippi highway earlier this year now has a permanent home at a New Jersey wildlife refuge. Forrest, ...

FORKED RIVER, N.J. -- An animal refuge in Ocean County, New Jersey, is giving a former laboratory animal a new home after it survived a truck crash. Forrest, a rhesus macaque, was one of 21 monkeys ...

They may not yet be kings of the swingers, but macaque monkeys can keep time to music and move to the beat. Well, at least two adult macaques can, who were trained by researchers to tap along to ...

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- It was a typical Friday for Sharon Lohman, the founder of New Beginnings for Merced County Animals, until she noticed a call to action. "I received an email from ...

The internet is in tears over a cat who was abandoned by his former owner when they moved out. Redditor u/PixelSirennn shared the story in the subreddit “cats,” where it earned over 28,000 upvotes.

Milwaukee County Zoo in Cincinatti has had a BIG handful of months lately. The zoo welcomed not one, not two, but three baby monkeys this summer all in the span of a few weeks — and they've been ...

OLINVILLE, The Bronx (WABC) -- An infant was abandoned in a trash can in front of a Bronx home in Olinville, with the umbilical cord still attached. The newborn was found in front of an apartment door ...

The infant was dubbed “Rachel Marie Doe” and became an icon of anti-abortion advocates in Minnesota. Would her mother face charges for leaving her at a county road? A woman kneels and weeps over the ...

A mother says she gave birth to her baby in a car minutes after being turned away from a hospital over the weekend in Crown Point, Indiana. Video shows her being wheeled out by hospital staff, and she ...

Authorities have identified a newborn girl found in 1983 on the side of Main Street in Blaine and say the then-teenage mother will not be prosecuted because investigators cannot determine if the baby ...