LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — Rescue crews went into a warehouse last year to save nearly 20,000 rats and reptiles at a wholesale distributor of exotic snakes and rodents, encountering a sight so revolting ...

Authorities seized at least a dozen animals, including a large Colombian boa constrictor and a Savannah monitor lizard, during a raid of a Jersey City home Wednesday that officials described as an ...

Two men have been charged with more than 100 counts each of felony animal cruelty for the way they treated many of nearly 20,000 rats and reptiles found dead, dying or diseased at a breeding center in ...

TUCSON, Ariz.TUCSON, Ariz. — Two humane societies are considering legal action against an Arizona breeding company after as many as 260 small animals that were supposed to be placed for adoption were ...

PHOENIX — They may be small, slow and cute for now, but within a few weeks the baby Nile crocodiles that fit in Russ Johnson’s hands will be downright dangerous. Johnson, president of the nonprofit ...

Two rare reptile species native to two delicate island ecosystems are now thriving at the San Diego Zoo, it was announced Friday. Has your car ever been stolen? This week, our local data reports add a ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Thursday voted unanimously for a set of rules that would ban owning or breeding six types of pythons, the green anaconda and nine other "high-risk ...

As few as 500 adult ploughshare tortoises roam the bamboo scrub of Baly Bay in north-western Madagascar. Fortunately, many more are thriving in the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust’s captive ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Two humane societies are considering legal action against an Arizona breeding company after as many as 260 small animals that were supposed to be placed for adoption were instead ...