A 23-year-old python at Chester Zoo in the UK is cancer-free after vets used a treatment normally used in humans to fight a tumor that was destroying part ...

Nine dolphins are still living in concrete swimming pools at a closed dolphin facility in Cancún, Mexico. A year after the country approved a major ban on ...

An adult southern right whale and a newborn calf have been found dead near Dyer Island, off South Africa’s coast. Researchers believe the adult whale may ...

Three lions have died at Tama Zoological Park in Tokyo, Japan, after several animals became seriously ill during the recent heatwave. The first signs of ...

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Support The Animal ReaderMost animal suffering never makes the news. When there is a flood, an earthquake, or a wildfire, we read about the people who were ...

Kshamenk, the last captive orca in Argentina, has died at the age of 37. He spent most of his life at Mundo Marino, a marine park in the seaside town of San ...

Animal research group Ongehoord has released new undercover footage showing the cruel treatment of cows and calves in the Dutch dairy industry. Extreme ...

Poland has officially banned fur farming. The new law, signed by President Karol Nawrock on Tuesday, gives fur farmers eight years to close their farms.The ...

“We put the animals on the ship. The importer paid, and hired the ship. After that, the operation was in his hands,” Fernando Fernández, director of the ...