In October, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at California’s Otay Mesa border crossing noticed an odd bulge inside a man’s pants. Jesse Agus Martinez, a U.S. citizen who lives in Tijuana, ...

Ahead of Thanksgiving, a farm in Santa Clarita, CA offers turkey cuddle therapy to bring connection, compassion and kindness ...

When Christine Dame and her dog, Vie, visited a busy Derryfield Park in Manchester on Sunday morning, the mixed-breed dog ...

The beloved Galápagos tortoise named Gramma that was the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo at an estimated 141 years has ...

Reptiles are more loved than ever. But as Goose and Charles show, true love means respecting restrictions on ownership, and ...

Saguaro Park in southeastern Arizona, near Tucson, offers a landscape unlike anything you’ll see elsewhere. The park hosts ...

Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo gathered one recent morning around ...

Loggerhead hatchlings travel thousands of miles guided by an astonishing built-in navigation system that uses the Earth’s magnetic field. Scientists trained young turtles to “dance” in response to ...

Loggerhead turtles are able to sense Earth's magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn't clear which sense the animals use to ...

Santa famously checks whether kids are naughty or nice. The Real Pet Santa, however, only asks, “Who’s a good boy?” ...

From Alaska to Louisiana, meet the wolves, monkeys, and reptiles now residing in the wild, wild west of Los Angeles.