animals

Scrim, the city’s elusive “Houdini Dog,” is back with the owner of Zeus’ Rescues–and all it took was a simple cat trap.

“Scrim, it turns out, had a whole life before New Orleans,” said Doug McCash, arts and culture writer for The Times-Picayune.

State opens inaugural black bear season with 10 tags.

Here’s what you can share with your dog and what they should avoid.

Armed with new protections, this turtle could be the catalyst for halting a huge and controversial engineering project upriver in Jackson, Mississippi, known locally as “One Lake.”

With staffing shortages and high intake, shelters in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana are overwhelmed with the number of animals they have.

TriPod goes back to the days when Algiers was a stomping ground for bullfights and other forms of animal combat.It’s a Sunday afternoon. The sun is out,…

It turns out Louisiana's climate is a lot like Sub-Saharan Africa's. So it makes some sense you’d see animals usually spotted on safari at Global Wildlife…

The myths that surround snakes are almost as amazing as the irrational fear that many people have of these reptiles. It is likely that more people...

Federal scientists have linked a spike in deaths of bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico to the BP oil spill off the Louisiana coast. Environmental…