A Hawkes Bay family got more than they bargained for when they cracked open an unusually large egg laid by their pet chicken recently - another egg.

We love our pets, here in New Zealand, but not half as much as they love them in other countries.

Almost 20 abandoned animals featured in the Herald's summer papers have found homes.

Auckland Zoo's new “Keeper for a Day” experience allows visitors to work alongside keepers and step into areas of the zoo that are usually out of bounds.

The keepers at Auckland Zoo think they have the best job in the world, so we are trading our office shoes for work boots today to give it a go.

Rhonda Preston-Jones could be forgiven for thinking she was in Australia yesterday morning when she looked out the window and saw three pelicans only metres from her home in Waterview.

Members of the nzherald.co.nz team are trading their office shoes for work boots to give zookeeping a go.

New York's Bronx Zoo has welcomed a baby gibbon, the first born at the zoo for 12 years.

An 12 metre-long adult male sperm whale was discovered by locals this morning near the Kapiti Coast Boat Club on Paraparaumu Beach, north of Wellington.

A second sea lion has died in just over a month at Napier's Marineland when 22-year-old Makea failed to recover from a general anaesthetic on Friday.

A dolphin and its calf which were stranded on a Hawkes Bay reef as they fled from hunting orca have been saved by holidaymakers.

It's hard to take a big dog on an international sports tour - but easier to take him on holiday.

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and the US National Environment Research Council used satellite imagery to discover a massive penguin colony on the Princess Ragnhild Coast in Antarctica.

Humans have made first contact with a massive emperor penguin colony in east Antarctica.

Those responsible for shooting five domesticated goats, one of which took five days to die, are being warned by police.