Topic: Animals

Mystik Dan finished first in a wild, three-way finish to Saturday's 150th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs with Sierra Leone second and Japan's Forever Young third.

Thorpedo Anna went right to the lead in Friday's Kentucky Oaks and drew off through the stretch to a daylight win.

In a forthcoming book by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem that recounts her killing her dog, the Republican governor is untruthful about having met North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, according to the New York Post.

New research from the University of Guelph said on Friday that temperatures are becoming too hot for bumblebees, threatening their role as plant pollinators and the food supply for humans and other animals.

Residents of an Iowa town were treated to an unusual and whimsical sight when a dog and a deer went for a walk around town together.

Officials in a Washington county are asking members of the public to steer clear of the area where a zebra remains on the loose.

Primates are capable of tending to wounds using medicinal plants, a new case report says.

A 9-foot alligator wandered up to a Florida elementary school and managed to buck a trapper off its back before being safely corralled.

Saturday's 150th running of the Kentucky Derby headlines a massive weekend of horse racing around the globe.

Workers at a New Zealand sawmill received an early morning shock when a particularly large kiwi bird decided to run through the shop.