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.

It's time the Govt got tough on the mongrels who choose to have dogs simply to intimidate and make a statement, not to love and care for and have as part of the family, writes Kerre McIvor.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Two brothers who starved horses so badly they had to be shot by animal welfare officers have been jailed and banned from owning horses for five years.

The Government is being urged to make an international gesture by destroying its stockpile of up to 800 confiscated ivory specimens.

BBC wildlife presenter Chris Packham says it's good for kids to get "stung, slimed, slithered on and scratched."

An inquest in Gloucester has heard how a plane crash that killed a British pilot in the Congo may have been caused by passengers panicking over an escaped crocodile.