OAKLAND — The Oakland Zoo is taking part in a pilot program that promises to provide some much-needed fun and games for animals including a 100-year-old, “football” loving tortoise. The One World ...

The animal kingdom is a dangerous place, but certain species are more than up to the challenge, constantly evading death (or causing it) wherever they go.

Nature is full of impressively resilient creatures. Take scorpions, for example, which have been around for about 437 million years and have outlasted numerous other species that were wiped out by ...

I have a 5-month-old dog who is 50 pounds. He is an American bulldog. The other day, he had ripped apart one of his toys and swallowed some big pieces of it. He couldn’t have done that to this toy a ...

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Tiny tardigrades are amazing: the seemingly indestructible animals are the only ones known to survive the vacuum of space, and now researchers publishing in PNAS report one-sixth of their DNA comes ...

The One World Futbol Project's "Zoo Seconds" program will donate soccer balls that are designed to be nearly indestructible for use in animal enrichment programs, zoo officials said. Zoo animals get ...