Animal names often sound precise, but many are the result of early guesswork that never got corrected. Explorers, naturalists ...

We’re talking about Penny, a dog owned by Superintendent Ryan McLane. She’s a star on Facebook, where she appears whenever there’s a weather-related school closure. For example, Penny was on a post ...

Pennsylvania has their Punxsutawney Phil, a groundhog who has forecast weather every February 2 for generations, so it seemed ...

It's not every day a prairie dog goes viral for villain behavior, but then again, Chunk isn't your average rodent. Captured ...

It's not every day a prairie dog goes viral for villain behavior, but then again, Chunk isn't your average rodent. Captured ...

The state's animal prognosticators didn't agree.

Funny dogs Maymo, Penny, and Potpie get pranked with a giant snake, and a variety of other kinds of snakes. Watch these cute beagle dogs as they first battle remote controlled snakes, then as they are ...

Meet Chunk: The prairie dog with boundaries, attitude, and a growing fan club. Chunk lives at Texas Wildlife Park near Kerrville, where he’s gone viral for ruling his enclosure with what fans call a ...

"He smol but he bad," is how employees at the Texas Wildlife Park in Mountain Home, located 17 miles west of Kerrville, describe a young prairie dog going viral on social media for his tiny stature, ...

Actor and director Timothy Busfield is facing charges of sexual abuse involving a minor after he was accused of misconduct with a child actor on the set of The Cleaning Lady. Busfield — who ...

Several trainers in town offer rattlesnake- and toad-aversion training for dogs. The Humane Society of Southern Arizona stopped such classes earlier this year. Here are a couple of local services: ...

This story has been updated with more details from the St. Joseph County Prosecutor's Office press release. No charges will be filed against Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman stemming from an ...