A third of New Zealand pets are overweight. Since today is Pet Obesity Awareness Day, here are three ways to help curb your pet's waistline.

Koala was found wandering helplessly through a large development site that she once used to call home before she was rescued.

There's a dwarf snakehead fish that lives in the Eastern Himalayas, and it walks upon the earth.

Dunedin Mayor says: ''It may be the complainants are as vexatious as the dogs.''

Pig organs could soon be transplanted into human patients after Harvard University scientists found a way to genetically modify pig DNA to be more compatible with humans.

A 6-year-old Bay of Plenty boy who received life-threatening injuries when he was viciously attacked by a relative's dog is now in a stable condition.

A heartwarming post from popular blog Humans of New York has prompted thousands of followers to share their pet rescue stories.

Gareth Morgan has nothing on this man.

How Toffee the cat got from New Zealand to Australia to end up as a stray remains unclear.

Two dogs, from a pack that attacked people in two separate incidents at Whirinaki Beach last Saturday, have been put down.

After the cat's disappearance, Quah launched a desperate campaign to find her pet.

Auckland Zoo has released its 300th captivity-bred Kiwi on to Rotoroa Island.

The Prime Minister wants to bring giant pandas to New Zealand. Greg Dixon asks why stop there?

A team of researchers discovered the hog-nosed rat during a expedition in a remote and mountainous area of Indonesia two years ago.

Hamilton Zoo keeper had near-miss while giving tiger talk two years ago, sparking new questions about mauling death last month.

Michael James Whitelock, 28, shot one cow in the leg, dumped another cow still alive in an offal pit, and broke the tails of hundreds of others.

A charity group has recreated iconic magazine covers with homeless dogs in the hope of attracting new homes for the animals.

The teeth of a dog may provide new insight into how humans migrated across the world's largest ocean to New Zealand, and where they came from.

The folks at Swift Plumbing sent nzherald.co.nz this video of Orca visiting them in the Gulf, they make some great use of Go-pro cameras to film them underwater.

200 new species have been discovered in the Eastern Himalayas in the past five years.

A historic mansion that's hosted politicians, royalty and academics has been taken over by a new kind of pedigree - a semi-celebrity cat.

Some well known New Zealanders are championing their favourite native bird in Forest & Bird's annual Bird of the Year competition.

It is notoriously difficult to get pandas to mate, so cloning might be the next best option.

Every time the Prime Minister tries to advance something that does not address one of the country's more pressing problems, he is harangued.

Rhys Jones, a springer spaniel, has learned to sniff out Argentine ants which are unwelcome invaders in the Hauraki Gulf.

Another visit to Chengdu, the giant panda breeding research base. We had a nice cuddle. She's really taken a shine to me.

The Department of Conservation is grossly under-funded and is expected to seek sponsors and volunteers to assist it in its vital work, writes Brian Rudman.

Despite expressing her love for animals, a British princess has come under fire for her stance on animal rights. Photo / iStock

Barrister suing after he was bitten by a deadly spider during flight.