Benny tries to look innocent but his scruffy mug says a thousand words.

A new warning has sounded for the world’s smallest dolphin, with a New Zealand researcher now reporting there are less than 50 Maui’s dolphins left.

Award-winning film-maker and author Lloyd Spencer Davis, aka 'Professor Penguin', is regarded as a world authority on penguins. He talks to Jennifer Dann.

Danish radio presenter bludgeoned a baby rabbit to death with a bicycle pump whilst debating animal rights live on air.

There were 14 seal-related injury claims last year. One person was even bitten on the bum.

Animal behaviour expert Sally Hibbard lists the ten most annoying things you can say to a vegetarian.

Feel like a cuteness overload? The SPCA is currently live streaming four fuzzy kittens as part of an adoption drive.

What happens when you lock one of New Zealand's most hated predators up with two other notorious killers?

Forget The Bachelor - it's a tiny crab that takes the cake for the ultimate act of courtship.

VIDEO: Residents of a Brisbane neighbourhood are being stalked by a giant kangaroo, taking locals by surprise as it wanders fearlessly around the streets.

"I call her the undie thief." A fleet-footed family pet with criminal tendencies is proving a headache for her embarrassed owner.

They perform feats of amazing acrobatics, create intricate works of art and some just look weird - but until last year these species were completely unknown to science.

A heartwarming video captured the moment police officers rescued a dog from certain death by pulling it from a landslide.

The mystery of why giant pandas have to spend 14 hours a day eating has been solved - they can digest only about 17 per cent of the 12kg of bamboo leaves and stems they swallow each day.

Australia's live animal export trade is once again under a harsh spotlight amid claims that cattle are being bludgeoned to death with sledgehammers in Vietnam.

Paddle boarder Luke Reilly had a close encounter with an orca just 200 metres from the shore.

The close of the kiwi hatching season has been delayed this year after the discovery of a late egg.

Several sheep were killed in a fire that destroyed a woolshed in Manawatu this morning.

It appears this python bit off more than he could chew - or rather swallow - after he consumed a large pair of barbecue tongs during his feed.

No chickens were harmed in a fire that tore through a commercial chicken processing plant in rural Waikato this morning.

A giant conger eel weighing in at 59kgs and measuring 6.4 metres has been caught off the coast of Devon.

Scientists have long assumed that all fish are basically cold-blooded, but all that has just changed.

A male orangutan at a US nature preserve has taken a liking to three tiger cubs, after watching his human caretakers nurse the three baby cats.

A Rotomanu farmer who stood trial in March for his part in the starvation and death of nearly 800 cows has been found guilty.

A mother bear and her cubs gave tourists in America's Yellowstone National Park a sharp refresher in the rules on how to appreciate the wildlife - stay a safe distance.

Two seasoned New Zealand spearfishermen found themselves in a sticky situation when over half a dozen sharks swarmed and stole their catch.

Thousands of tourists are thrilled by live encounters with sharks but there are fears drawing them with bait teaches them to associate food with people.

A sheep spray painted with the word 'Isis' on its left flank has been found in Devonport. A post on North Shore Pets’ lost and found Facebook page showed images of the animal.

A dog owner was horrified to find her beloved chihuahua was pecked to death by a gang of angry seagulls.

The bones, believed to be around 2000 years old, were the result of the first archaeological expedition for moa bones in almost half a century.