Animals

Collisions between wildlife and planes are common at airports nationwide. With that in mind, Yeager Airport management in 2018 bought Hercules.

Instead of immediately moving away or keeping his distance, the cyclist looked to help the snake and ended up needing help himself.

The man tried to nudge it with his water bottle, but it didn’t move. He then reached out with his hand — a move he would very quickly regret.

Some of the most severe damage from Saturday’s storms came in the Wise County town of Bridgeport. An exotic animal shelter is facing thousands of dollars in repairs after powerful winds leveled structures and brought down trees. The Center for Animal Research and Education is home to lions, tigers, and other big cats, but none of them are as...

Some of the most severe damage we’ve seen from storms last weekend is in the Wise County town of Bridgeport. An exotic animal shelter faces thousands of dollars in repairs after powerful winds leveled structures and brought down trees on Saturday. NBC 5’s Keenan Willard takes us inside the massive cleanup effort now underway.

A Missouri mom taking her son to baseball practice got quite a surprise this week when an unexpected passenger hitched a ride under her car’s hood.

  Missouri conservation officials warn of snakes hiding in cars.

A kangaroo was on the loose in Colorado. Irwin, the pet kangaroo, got out in Durango on Monday, prompting a call to police.

Last Tuesday, the shelter began offering the birds for adoption, but only a few hundred out of thousands have been picked up.

May 20 is National Rescue Dog Day. In honor of one of our favorite four-legged friends, here are five ways to honor rescue dogs in your community.

Researchers are deploying a new weapon to slow the spread of invasive spotted lanternflies.

Hunter Metzger ordered his dog Iris’ final meal from Texas Roadhouse. He was blown away by the restaurant’s response.

The orangutans were seized Wednesday night and the alleged courier for the seller was arrested at a gas station, police said.

A British-South African swimmer aims to become the first person to swim around Martha’s Vineyard, a popular tourist destination south of Cape Cod, to help change the perception of sharks.

An alligator that appeared in numerous TV shows and films over three decades, most notably the 1996 Adam Sandler comedy “Happy Gilmore,” has died at a gator farm in southern Colorado.

Police bodycam captures what officers found inside a Utah home packed with animals — and why two men now face hundreds of charges.

A 75-year-old man from Long Island, New York, has been arrested for animal cruelty after dozens of dead cats were pulled from his home last weekend.

Authorities are testing DNA samples to determine if any of the bears killed 89-year-old Robert Markel near his home early Monday.

Bodycam footage shows Tacoma officers pulling off an unusual rescue after a Bernese mountain dog got stuck on rocks at a seaside park on Saturday, April 19.

Dramatic video shows how authorities in Manatee County, Florida, wrangled and “expelled” an alligator from a high school campus.