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The annual contest celebrates pets’ imperfections, such as Scooter’s backwards-facing hind legs and sparse hair

Officials set up ‘treatment area’ in Miramar and warn residents the creatures also pose a health risk by carrying a parasite

Dozens of the ‘ecosystem engineers’ have been caught in Western Australia and flown to their new habitat

A white woman made a threat against Cooper in 2020, and the world took notice. Now he wants to share the joy of ‘birding while Black’

Animal Justice party will put forward an amendment to the government’s bill that further strengthens laws allowing renters to own pets

Public notice issued to watch out for the flippered creatures as they start to leave their breeding colonies and venture out into New Zealand

Alleged vigilante attacks on two crocodiles have focused attention on their interactions with people, even in urban areas

Be it a pony in inner Sydney or a fish friends with a premier – some animals have become stars. We want to hear about all of them

Former New York mayor spoke candidly about day in 2014 he dropped Charlotte the groundhog

Marine biologists were surprised at the display of playful behavior ‘like kids in the park’, which lasted more than eight hours

Tour operator David White says anonymous caller claimed to have killed 40-year-old Lizzie as well as another reptile in April

A black bear was sighted in the Gulf of Mexico before it decamped into the nearby dunes to the astonishment of beachgoers

You can learn a lot about someone from how they treat animals, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. In this situation that cuts two ways

While wolverines are native to California, they’ve been essentially extinct from the state since the 1920s

The three-year-old Louisiana pup was already known for her prodigious licker before Guinness confirmed she was a winner

Exclusive: Study finds pests could damage crops and households would incur costs for pesticides, veterinary bills and electrical faults

Authorities say Faye the swan was abducted, and that three suspects had been arrested for grand larceny and criminal mischief

Park has long been a target of activists who have sought to shut it down over the lack of care given to its captive animals

One of Bear River state park’s white heifers gave birth to a snowy calf, which is healthy and runs in circles called ‘zoomies’

Fossils discovered in Victoria 30 years ago are of pterosaurs, the earliest known vertebrates to evolve true flight

Two Wrongs, in South Yarra, on Sunday night shared images on social media of patrons posing with the native reptiles

Analysis shows area includes 9,000 hectares where there was already active logging as pressure grows on government to end practice

Suwannee county sheriff seeks to capture ferocious feral feline after two people need hospital treatment

The result of an extraordinary ecological history, many of New Zealand’s birds are highly unusual but all are beloved

John Riddle of Hollywood, Florida, discovered lizard in what seems to be a recurring encounter in state

Zoo apologises after videos of a bird being handled and petted by guests under bright lights prompted uproar in New Zealand

FIP is typically a fatal illness for felines. There is a treatment – but it’s nearly impossible to obtain in the US

When scientists discovered tunnels on the bed of the Bering Sea, they were baffled. Now they think they have found the culprit

Kevin Milner was riding on trail north of Vancouver when black bear charged forward and sent him flipping over the handlebars

Recently planted trees will take 100 years to restore habitat lost through urbanisation. Ecologists are trying to fill the gap

Vaccine gets emergency approval as ‘highly contagious’ virus sweeps through flocks of species on the brink of extinction

Invasive Burmese pythons are devastating wildlife but one firm believes turning snake leather into accessories could be a win-win

Fertilised, it can hold things shaped as differently as: a snake, an auk, a platypus; an emu, a tortoise, a peacock

Ella Reed was bitten in the stomach, arm, knee and finger after attack from probable bull shark, but plans to return to the water

The search for the surfer continues after paramedics were called to Walkers Rock Beach near Elliston on Saturday morning

Rare sight of giant reptile basking by waterside offers hope that notoriously polluted waterway is getting cleaner