A woman is in a serious condition and ten children have been taken to hospital after an attack by bees or wasps on Nelson's Tahunanui Beach.

A family in Texas claim to have shot and killed a chupacabra, a mythical creature with a reputation for sucking blood from live-stock across America.

Dog owners are being advised to ignore the puppy eyes, the tail-between-legs and the apparent guilt the animals appear to show when they have done something wrong – canines do not feel shame, according to animal behaviour experts.

A bacterial disease is unlikely to be the main cause of endangered New Zealand sea lion deaths in the Auckland Islands, scientists say.

A pilot was lucky to escape with just a cut on his head after a bird came smashing through the windshield of his aircraft as he was flying 300m above the ground.

A leopard sparked panic in a north Indian city when it strayed inside a hospital, a cinema and an apartment block while evading captors and injured at least two people.

A rare, salamander-like amphibian has been spotted in its only known natural habitat, after researchers feared the creature had disappeared from the wild.

A man charged with dangerous driving in relation to the death of a pet dog on Haumoana Beach has pleaded not guilty.

A flock of 500 sheep has been found smothered to death in a narrow gully on a Southland farm.

Ben Crawford says choose your colours from your artwork.

There has been some excitement for Department of Conservation staff trying to save endangered kakapo.

Lemurs could "very soon" be extinct, some of the world's leading experts on the primates warned as they unveiled a three-year plan to save them, this week.

An increase in the number of giant squid being caught along the Sea of Japan coast is leading fisherman to fear it may be some kind of omen.

A group of penguin chicks have taken their first swimming lessons at Auckland's Kelly Tarlton's Sea Life Aquarium.

One of the most "disastrous breeding seasons" in recent years has hit endangered yellow-eyed penguin colonies along Otago's coast.

A three-year-old girl has been air-lifted to hospital after being bitten on the back of her head by a farm dog.

Just like his famous fashion-designer namesake, Giorgio sparkled.

Ben Crawford meets one of his childhood heroes.

A man who almost starved his dog to death because he had "lost interest" in the pet, has been banned from owning animals for five years.

The stranding of nine orca in Southland is only the third such mass stranding of the species recorded in New Zealand, a specialist researcher says.

New Zealand's endangered yellow-eyed penguin have been found to follow the line of swooping seabirds - literally - when it comes to reaping the food stirred up by trawlers.

With only a couple of squeezes of his trigger finger, the two white rhino would be dead and their horns worth more than gold would be his, making him a very rich man.

Condemned to death at the hands of a private extermination company, around 150 of the stray dogs from Sochi's Olympic Park have been saved after the intervention of a Russian billionaire.

A Japanese whaling ship is reported to have tailed an anti-whaling ship into waters off Otago against the wishes of the NZ Govt, which labelled the move 'disrespectful'.

The world has a real chance this week to halt the soaring slaughter of African elephants.