Elephants do talk to each other, researchers in the US have discovered.

Police are trying to locate the bodies of two pet dogs after their owner found blood, shotgun casings and one of their collars on the road.

Cookie the dog looked more like the Cookie Monster when his owners first laid eyes on him.

Murray McCully says NZ will consider joining any legal action to force Japan to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean if diplomatic channels fail.

In the end it was the bronze whaler that came off worse during a terrifying man-versus-shark encounter near Whitianga this week.

It's a question I don't usually ask my husband on a Saturday afternoon, but he was in an awkward position.

Kenyan authorities have begun a plan to restore the predator-prey balance in one of the country's premier game parks after a recent drought.