A hungry pig trapped a terrified motorist in her car in an attempted food raid yesterday.

A Westport man who lost control during an incident with animal control has been ordered to pay for the damage he caused.

The Earth is on course to lose up to one in six of all its species, if carbon emissions continue as they currently are.

A man has been banned from owning livestock for 20 years after failing to provide six calves with sufficient food.

When it comes to big fossil finds, China is full of surprises, and the latest dinosaur discovery is no exception.

A visiting conservationist and molecular biologist has joined calls to save our national bird.

They may be hated pests that love eating our cherished native birds, but pesky introduced stoats have just become a little more interesting to scientists overseas.

A creature from the past that would have looked like strange mix of unrelated dinosaurs has been discovered.

A new review calling for bold and urgent measures to control roaming cats - including compulsory microchipping - has been criticised as flawed.

Footage has emerged of the terrifying moment a 6m great white shark lunged at a dinghy carrying an international film crew off Stewart Island.

At the end of this month four rescue dogs will graduate as fully trained explosive detector dogs after completing an intensive nine weeks of training.

An enormous effort to save native birds from a tide of pests has delivered some promising results in the South Island, following 1080 drops across vast swathes of beech forest.

A judge has granted the legal right of habeas corpus to two chimpanzees being held at a biomedical research facility in the US - a decision that animal rights activists hailed as the first time chimps that had been afforded the status of legal "persons".

Puppy farms and dog fighting were topics Labour's animal welfare spokesman Trevor Mallard sank his teeth into at the SPCA Otago in Dunedin yesterday.

They came out of Africa and into Matamata, and brought some exotic friends with them - including Bassoon the American bison and Mr and Mrs Ostrich.

Otago Peninsula jewelled geckos smuggled to Germany are the first to return to New Zealand under strengthened rules to crack down on poaching.

Four zebras caused chaos in the Belgian capital today as they ran through the streets, dodging traffic and startling passing pedestrians.

Dog owners love their pets in the same way as they do their children, and the feeling is mutual, scientists have found.

New University of Otago research is providing the most comprehensive picture of the nearly 40million-year-long evolutionary history of baleen whales.

Solutions are critical in their own way for the challenge that is turning the tide on the loss of nature in New Zealand, writes Marie Brown.

In the first of a two-part series on New Zealand’s ‘vanishing nature’, author Marie Brown explains the country’s biodiversity crisis - and why things are getting worse.

A famous local mountain lion who crawled under a Los Angeles home on Tuesday stayed put, despite humans' best efforts to get him out.

A hunter who has killed dozens of wild animals has been sent death wishes by furious social media users.

In a move more befitting of a feline, a lost pooch has turned up in an elevated position.

A rare kiwi chick that has been recovering at Wellington Zoo for the past six weeks is heading back to the wild.