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A rare glimpse at one of the most endangered animals on the planet — the Javan rhinoceros — was recently captured on video at Ujung Kulon National Park, on the island of Java in Indonesia.

Just over a month ago, the Department of Agriculture announced that it will allow American farmers to plant genetically engineered alfalfa, which is widely used as feed for dairy cows and horses.Organic food producers opposed the USDA's decision — some more fiercely than others.

Scientists are trying to determine whether there's a link between last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill and a spike in dolphin deaths along the Gulf Coast. Sixty-seven bottlenose dolphins have washed up on Gulf beaches over the past few weeks.

In a dusty, ancient burial site in northern Jordan, archaeologists have made a startling discovery. A fox buried alongside human remains.It seems some 16,000 years ago, several millennia before any animals were domesticated, humans may have been making an early attempt to keep pets.

I don't know how it got to this point, but in my small Tennessee hometown, deer are totally out of control. They wander front yards and side streets as if you are inconveniencing them.

An Indonesian man was accused of trying to make some quick cash by stuffing 259 live animals into three suitcases last week.

For those still wondering why thousands of birds died in Beebe, Ark., on New Year's Eve and thousands more fish washed up dead around the same time in a river to to the west near the Oklahoma border:— The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission says "three laboratories' test results on red-winged blackbir