Judge Rules SeaWorld Committed ‘Serious’ Violation in Death of Trainer
Tilikum in isolation after killing his trainer SeaWorld claims it can stop its enraged, depressed, captive orcas from killing their trainers by slapping the water to…
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Ringling Caves!
The elephants are packing their trunks. By any standard, today’s decision by the Ringling Circus to phase out its elephant acts represents a seismic shift in the use of…
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Collapse of Antarctic Ice Sheet Irreversible
One of the six major glaciers being eroded from below by warm water What does it mean when two major studies this week tell us that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is…
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2013 Game Changers
Two events share top prize as game changers for the year just ending: The Nonhuman Rights Project's lawsuits have started a whole new conversation about how we relate to other…
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Mother Carries Shot Pit Bull to Safety
It started out as the same hike that Andi Davis does every day to the top of one of the mountains near where she lives in Phoenix, Arizona. But this time, close to the top,…
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Liberators or Terrorists?
When 100 people, mostly women from various rescue groups, rescued 178 beagles from a research lab in Brazil last week, nobody called them terrorists. The five security officers…
The Right Music for Cats
Greyhound Shock Angers Australians
Holiday Gift for Elephant Music Lovers
The Yeti Bear
Bob Barker Does It Again
Just three weeks after he completed a half-million-dollar donation to Chimp Haven, a Louisiana sanctuary for former laboratory chimpanzees, Bob Barker has sent $250,000 to Save the Chimps, a sanctuary in Florida.
All Dressed Up for Their Last Foie Gras Spree
There’s something quite chilling about this series of photos, taken by Marcio Jose Sanchez at the Sent Sovi restaurant in Saratoga, California. The diners were gathered…
Warmest Spring on Record
The spring of 2012 is set to go down as the warmest in the U.S. since records began to be kept in 1895. The previous record…
Interactive Map of Temperature Records
Check out this remarkable map of records around the country since the year 2000 – courtesy of Climate Central. See where your own neck of the…
131 Years of Global Warming in 30 Seconds
This video from NASA shows how temperatures around the globe have warmed since 1880.
Chimps, Orangutans Have Human-Like Personalities
Do chimpanzees, orangutans and other nonhuman great apes have distinct personalities like us? It’s been a longstanding debate within the scientific community, and those who seek to exploit these animals have long argued that “personality” is a distinctly human attribute, not shared by any other species.
Dinosaurs Live On as "Most Successful Land Species"
It may be hard to imagine that your common house sparrow is the direct descendant of the dinosaurs (to be precise, she is a dinosaur). But we know it’s true. And now we know a little more about how the transition took place.
Racing 1,000 Miles to Her Adoption – Aaaw!
A small stray dog has become a sensation all across China after joining up with a cycling team and running with them for more than 1,000…
Imaginary Menagerie Takes to the Streets
Imagine if the animals escaped from the zoo and took to the streets. That’s what the folks at Lichtfaktor in Cologne, Germany, did when they put…
Masters of Camouflage
Check out this beautiful conch shell … … Well, actually it’s an octopus.
Why Newborn Beluga Whale Died at Aquarium
Mother Maris with her baby at the Georgia Aquarium The Georgia Aquarium is trying to explain why a newborn Beluga whale calf died there yesterday. But…
Top Ten ‘New’ Species for 2012
Meet the sneezing monkey, the SpongeBob SquarePants mushroom, the walking cactus, and the devil’s worm. While they’re hardly “new” species (they’ve all been around a lot…
Chimp Rescues Ducklings … Then Demands Reward
When Bossou saw three ducklings in the water around his Chimp Island at the Dublin Zoo, he decided it was time to rescue them. But he wasn’t going to give them to the SPCA without a reward.
Fido’s Mysterious Ancestors
Dr. Larson and his colleagues conducted a detailed analysis of DNA 1,375 dogs of 121 breeds, along with 19 wolves. They found that all the modern breeds of dog had been so mixed that their early genetic history was impossible to see.
Chimp Lab Fights to Save Its Own Life
As the tide begins to turn in the battle to save the lives of chimpanzees in laboratories, the laboratory that conducts most of those experiments is…
Out of the Frying Pan … Into a Good Home!
This little piggy didn’t go to market. Instead, Olivia, as she is now known, is living with her forever family. Several weeks ago, Olivia fell off a truck along Interstate 80 in Iowa. A driver who saw what had happened stopped, picked up the piglet, and took her to Animal Rescue League of Iowa (ARLI).
Sun to Moon: “I’m Off to Bed.”
My camera couldn’t do justice to the eclipse last night, but here are a couple of photos that capture exactly what it looked like from outside…
It’s Final: Peru Dolphins Died from Sonar Blasts
For more than two months, independent scientists, government agencies and oil company employees have been examining the bodies of dead dolphins who have been washing ashore by the hundreds on the beaches of Peru.
Twenty-Four Hours Above the Indian Ocean
High above the Indian ocean, a geo-stationary Russian weather satellite captures high-resolution photos of the planet. Videographer James Drake has put the images together into a…