We have all heard how rescuers have to come to the aid of cats stuck up trees and birds with broken wings, but this operation was a little more complicated.

The idea of unicorns roaming alongside humans sounds like something from a fairy tale, but a "Siberian unicorn" may in fact have lived alongside our ancestors.

Researchers in Australia are administering an online cat personality test, and they've found something interesting: Cats are not too different from us.

Photographers from 54 countries captured stunning moments for this year's UPY London Underwater Photographer of the Year competition. Here are our some of our favourites.

Puppy love was alive and well in Auckland on Saturday, with homeless pooches being united with new owners.

Auckland Zoo's 28-year-old hippopotamus "Fudge" has died.

Located about 45 minutes outside Tasmania's capital of Hobart, Bonorong is the anti-zoo.

The massive campaign to find a missing pooch.

A kitten who survived a trip from Papamoa to Auckland after stowing away under the bonnet of a car, has been re-homed.

Dog owners are happier, more sociable and earn bigger salaries than cat owners, according to a new study.

A cocker spaniel cross was rescued from a construction site in Clover Park, South Auckland, after it fell in a hole.

A humpback whale missing most of its tail has been spotted off Kaikoura.

That's right. You can now create a 3D printed suit of armour for your cat.

Green sea turtles and a black sea turtle have been set free as part of a turtle rehabilitation programme which has been run by Kelly Tarlton's for 20 years.

A central Auckland cafe staffed by five humans and 12 cats is on the look-out for three new feline staff members willing to be paid in love, cuddles and snacks.

Denise Robinson Winskill was killed when her husband accidentally ran over her in his ute in October 2013.

"Suddenly I heard a noise on my left and saw a big ostrich in the bush, most likely a female. In a second her friend jumped from the left a started chasing my friends! The creature had no problem to keep up at 50km/h". Source: Oleksiy Mishchenko / ViralHog

A farewell ceremony is being held for Christchurch's two thousand godwits this evening.

GALLERY: Injured turtles at Kelly Tarlton's.

Richard Robinson visited the sick and injured turtles being rehabilitated at Auckland’s Kelly Tarlton’s.

An animal handler in Queensland was viciously attacked by a crocodile during a feeding show.

The friendliest looking sea creature we've seen in a while.

There's an awful lot of wildlife in Brazil. Most of it lives in the Amazon rainforest, home to one in 10 of all the plant and animal species in the world.

GRAPHIC WARNING: Shocking footage has emerged of a boy brutally attacking a possum with a hammer, after he had caught it in a trap in a tree.

Crows and parrots have sophisticated thinking skills on a par with those of apes such as chimpanzees, researchers claim.