While it might not yet be a plague, the rat population has exploded thanks to a warm start to the winter and a feast of beech mast seeds, pest controllers say.

Up to 500 rhinos are to be evacuated from Kruger National Park and taken to areas where they are less likely to fall prey to poachers, under plans announced by South African authorities.

Scientists at the Te Papa museum are hoping a colossal squid now in their possession is a male - making an already rare find an extraordinary one.

You might have noticed recently that a plague of "selfies" with tigers appears to have overtaken mobile dating app Tinder (where users "swipe right" to indicate interest; left to reject).

Horses have more sense than many people realise, according to scientists who have shown the animals are able to communicate with one another by moving their eyes and ears.

11:They served in horrific conditions, and many of those that survived years of war were rewarded with a bullet.

With a face only a mother could love - a baby tuatara was captured on film as it hatched out of its egg at Victoria University of Wellington.

Housing New Zealand is to look into how a young boy was mauled by a dog on one of its properties, despite a dog ban being in place.

This is extremely rare footage of a tuatara hatching, filmed at Victoria University of Wellington. The egg was one of 23 being incubated in captivity as part of a joint initiative with the Department of Conservation and Ngati Manuhiri that has saved a threatened population of tuatara from extinction.

The battle against poachers is taking a grim toll on the people charged with protecting wild animals

For centuries they have faced suspicion, hostility and even death as a result of the bad luck they are said to carry with them.

I really like old American cars - I like how they look and how they sound but please don't ask me anything about their inner workings.

An orbital sex mission by five Russian geckos has gone from lust in space to lost in space.

Remy the cat owes one of his nine lives to a popular neighbourhood tabby whose strong blood kept him alive.

New Zealanders want Maui’s and Hector’s dolphins protected, and are prepared to pay for it, according to a new report.

A dog who spent 30 hours trapped down a cold, four metre-deep hole was joined down there by her owner’s cat.

Scientists in western Canada have discovered the fossilised footprints of three tyrannosaurs that suggest these fearsome predators may have hunted in packs.

Intensive and sometimes controversial forms of threatened species management may be needed to reverse the increasing rate of global biodiversity losses, a University of Otago zoologist says.

There are three approved organizations in NZ that can act on animal welfare complaints: the police, the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and the Royal NZ Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RNZSPCA).

What is it that makes rockstars so attractive to the opposite sex? Turns out Charles Darwin had it pegged years ago - and it has a lot to do with peacocks.

A 17-year-old rescued by a mother-of-two and a police officer when his pitbull viciously mauled him believes the animal couldn't stop.

Roy May has found many curious things on the beach - but he's never seen anything like the creature that washed up in last week's storm.

A new hazard has appeared on Northland's roads and it comes with a bite - hungry, resting or abandoned seals are turning up along the coast.