animal stories

A public plea has helped track down a lost dog’s owner after the canine was spotted riding NJ Transit alone last week. The adorable white pooch apparently followed someone, not his owner, onto a train at Mountain Station at the height of Thursday’s morning commute. It rode to Hoboken Terminal. NJ Transit officers checked around with colleagues near the...

One pup’s adventures through NJ Transit came to a happy end after being reunited with its owner. 

NJ Transit is asking for help finding the owner of a dog that boarded one of its trains a day ago. The adorable white pooch apparently followed someone, not his owner, onto a train at Mountain Station at the height of Thursday’s morning commute. It rode to Hoboken Terminal. NJ Transit officers checked around with colleagues near the Mountain...

This New York love story begins with a criminal act of sabotage. Under cover of darkness a year ago Friday, someone breached a waist-high fence and slipped into the Central Park Zoo. Once inside, they cut a hole through a steel mesh cage, freeing a majestic Eurasian eagle-owl named Flaco who had arrived at the zoo as a fledgling 13…

The rogue bull who captured hearts across the country when he disrupted NJ Transit service for tens of thousands of people as he raced along the tracks in Newark last month is battling a life-threatening infection, according to the sanctuary that took him in. Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue in Wantage said Ricardo is now “at the best large animal…

A spaniel with six legs that was found abandoned in a supermarket parking lot is now like other dogs after having her extra limbs surgically removed.

There’s a bit of post-Christmas cheer on the menu for elephants and other tenants at the Berlin Zoo: they can chomp on Christmas trees that didn’t find a home.

New Jersey commuters had an exceptional start to their days when a bull on the tracks of Newark’s Penn Station delayed trains by 45 minutes.

A loose bull on the tracks at Newark Penn Station wreaked some havoc for NJ Transit riders late Thursday morning, prompting delays and chaos as crews worked to corral the animal.

A loose bull on the tracks at Newark Penn Station wreaked some havoc for NJ Transit riders Thursday morning, prompting delays.

Chopper 4 was over the scene.

New Jersey commuters had an exceptional start to their days when a bull on the tracks of Newark’s Penn Station delayed trains by 45 minutes.

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The tortoise was found on Saturday after officers came across an “unusual-looking” tortoise crossing a state road in Florida.

Bobi was born on May 11, 1992, when his owner was just 8 years old.

Time was of the essence as the healthy, athletic high school senior suffered a medical emergency overnight. No one was aware, except the family dog.

A Brooklyn man on his way to a wedding in Upstate New York discovered a rodent hitchhiking on the hood of his car.

Officials searched an east Indianapolis neighborhood overnight Wednesday after a Patas monkey named Momo escaped from a nearby house.

The five puppies — Labrador and golden retrievers, and a papillon among them — bounded through the airport, earning more than a few quizzical glances from airline passengers

Officers relocated a bull moose that had wandered into downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, in one of the southernmost sightings of a moose in the state.