Animals

Brazil enacts law to allow divorced couples shared custody of pets

Under the legislation, joint custody can be awarded when couples separate and cannot agree on who should keep the animal.

How do our pets help us cope with the situation?
WITH AN average of 25 calls a day seeking to return or surrender animals to its shelter in Kfar Ruth, and 258 dogs and 186 cats already waiting for homes, Let Animals Live has begun working to raise awareness on how to maintain an element of routine for animals so they don’t develop behavior issues.

As Israeli owners struggle from daily Iranian attacks, pets pay the price of war

Stowaway possum.

Video: Stowaway possum spotted camouflaging among plushies at airport shop

 Study reveals Stone Age methods of extracting animal teeth for jewelry. Illustration

Dressed for the afterlife: What 7,000-year-old grave soil reveals about Stone Age clothing - study


Danielle ‘Chava’ Greyman-Kennard: Proving the haters wrong – and saving animals while doing it

Behind the Bylines: Having worked at the 'Post' for several years now, Chava is known for her determination and fearlessness to stand up for what’s right, which has served her well in journalism.

Danielle Greyman-Kennard, aka Chava, has an incredible story.

Disney dinners stunned as hungry opossum crashes Magic Kingdom dessert party

“Even the [opossums] came for the Disney dining experience,” TikTok user Shay wrote.

The famous cross-eyed opossum Heidi peers out of its box before it is taken to the enclosure at the newly built tropical hall of the Zoo in Leipzig, June 9, 2011

WATCH: Labrador swept out to sea rescued by San Diego Fire Department lifeguards

Sadie, the five-year-old pup, escaped her home while her family was distracted by a football game.

Sadie, a 5-year-old dog, was rescued after being swept out to sea.

Animal rights orgs. hit out at 'ridiculous' claim crocodiles were culled over terrorism fears

The Civil Administration and the Nature and Parks Authorities both claimed in the letter that the killings were carried out to avoid a potential "terrorist incident." 

 Crocodile, close up view.

Party animal: Drunk raccoon behind viral liquor store break-in honored with cocktail namesake

The drunken shenanigans of the raccoon have also inspired a fundraising campaign for the Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter.

A very drunk raccoon passed out on the bathroom floor of a liquor store after an early morning break in.

Teenager with dreams of becoming lion tamer mauled to death by big cats after entering enclosure

The 19-year-old had previously tried to sneak onto a flight to Africa in hopes of being with the big cats.

 A lion roars inside its enclosure at a zoo in Peshawar, Pakistan December 13, 2021.

Sharks, pigeons may have something in common - the electric sensors in their ears - study

The inner ear tissue in pigeons, which contains “cells with highly sensitive electric sensors,” resembles that of sharks, which use it for hunting. 

Parisian psychologist Catherine Hervais holds a pigeon's toeless foot showing the consequence strings can have on the bird on her daily mission to care for the capital's pigeons in front of the Centre Pompidou (aka Beaubourg) in Paris, France, November 4, 2025.

Want a personal trash panda? Raccoons may be evolving for domestication

Beyond evolving features cuter to humans, the mammal has also become less fearful of humans, according to the study.

Raccoon Paul eats at the home of veterinarian Mathilde Laininger in Berlin, Germany, January 27, 2022. She cares for four raccoons that can no longer be released into the wild.

Cuban scientists race against time to save fish as old as the dinosaurs

The garfish - long, slender, its snout filled with sharp teeth- is considered “critically endangered," earning it a spot on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list.

A dead garfish lies in a marsh near Venice, Louisiana May 20, 2010. For nearly a month, roughly 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons/795,000 liters) of oil per day have been gushing from BP's broken Deepwater oil well situated in the Gulf of Mexico, in what could be named the worst oil spill in U.S. histo

Scientists discover RNA molecules from a mammoth that went extinct 40,000 years ago

The never-before-seen biological snapshot provides insight into the young mammoth's final moments, expanding our knowledge of creatures that went extinct tens of thousands of years ago.

People in protective suits examine a frozen woolly mammoth from Siberia named "Yuka" during a media preview at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei November 6, 2013.