An elderly female Sumatran tiger has died at Wellington Zoo, in a "devastating" blow for staff and regular visitors.

The return of sea otters in California's Monterey Bay has caused a remarkable recovery of endangered sea grasses.

I've always classified those horse-drawn carriages in Central Park alongside Venice's gondolas.

Two Dunedin youths have been arrested in relation to the theft and mutilation of a pet lamb in the city last month.

This labrador puppy nicknamed Richard Parker after the tiger in Life of Pi was found swimming for her life in San Francisco Bay.

Clever canines able to sniff out minute traces of peanuts could soon be available to help New Zealand children with severe allergies.

Neighbours of a house where a woman was mauled to death by rottweilers are outraged another big dog is at the address.

Senior Constable Bruce Lamb can still feel his beloved police dog Gage leaping over his head to take a bullet from a gunman.

Senior Constable Bruce Lamb can still feel his beloved police dog Gage leaping over his head to take a bullet from a gunman.

Two major New Zealand retailers have moved to stop stocking a controversial group of insecticides over claims they harm bees.

A dog owner who starved a puppy to death today "narrowly" escaped jail, but has been banned form owning animals for four years.

Why should dogs die so humans can get high? Animal testing takes lives, and humans and animals suffer.

Dionne Christian explores a refuge for endangered wildlife.

A raccoon-like animal has become the first new carnivore to be discovered in 35 years.

A Nelson trailbike rider has become an internet sensation after posting a video showing him being attacked by an angry ram.

A Nelson trail bike rider has received international attention for a video showing him being confronted by an angry ram.

Heads turned to stare as Bwana the baboon coasted down the motorway in a sports car on the afternoon of May 17, 1983, but for driver Tony Ratcliffe this monkeying around was daily life.

The parents of a boy whose face was mauled in a dog attack are furious the owner is returning to court to save her pet two years after their son was injured.

The one-humped dromedary camel of Arabia may be the source of a mysterious respiratory virus that emerged without warning last year causing kidney failure and severe pneumonia and leading to the death of about half the people known to be infected.

Massive forces bent faults below the Canterbury Plains, jolting a sleeping city awake at 4.35am. The other world - that occupied by animals - got an almighty fright too.

Two stationary yellow-eyed penguins standing sentinel over Sandfly Bay on Otago Peninsula have been confusing penguins, tourists and volunteers alike.