Hill Country floods in Texas displace hundreds of animals; ongoing rescue efforts and community support are critical.

Texas floods devastate, claiming dozens of lives and impacting wildlife. Learn how you can help victims, human and animal, ...

It's like 'dead birds flying': ... And without keeping up with the virus's journey in wild animals, experts worry, humans will be caught unprepared and ill-equipped to tackle bird flu.

However if an animal is found dead on public property or is “sick, injured, loose or vicious,” both the Peninsula Humane Society and the Pacifica Police Department can be called in to help.

Officials say local laws meant that Peanut should not have been kept as a pet. Mark Longo says a controversial raid violated ...

A gray wolf is dead in Oregon, and people may be to blame. The animal had been trapped by federal biologists in October and fitted with a radio-tracking collar that reported on its movements. It ...

If you must touch a dead animal, only do so with gloves to avoid catching an infection or parasite. Bear in mind also, you may not remove dead wild animals as otherwise you are at risk of a ...

A beloved hawk from Zoo Atlanta has died after apparently getting into an altercation with a wild animal. The hawk, named Tahoe, had been a part of the zoo's wildlife theater for more than 20 years.

Grieving the death of a wild animal can be revealing. “The bird was dead when the children found it.” So begins the 1938 picture book, The Dead Bird, for young children by Margaret Wise Brown ...

Health officials recommend wearing EPA-registered insect repellent and long clothing outdoors, not drinking untreated surface water, and not handling sick or dead wild animals unless wearing gloves.