12 February 2019 - Regional authorities in Russia declared a state of emergency over the weekend after the bears peered into homes, entered buildings and gorged at a garbage dump outside the town.
12 February 2019 - Authorities nicknamed the tiger "Tyson" after the movie "The Hangover."
8 February 2019 - It was a tragic end to hopes that the two would eventually breed as part of a Europe-wide tiger conservation program for the endangered Sumatran subspecies.
8 February 2019 - Photographs showing a bird and a puppy appear to be real, but the accompanying backstory is suspect.
7 February 2019 - Dolphinaris Arizona said it will close temporarily beginning Friday as a panel of experts investigates potential factors in the dolphin deaths.
24 January 2019 - Joie Henney, 65, said his registered emotional support animal named Wally likes to snuggle and give hugs, despite being a 5-foot-long alligator.
16 January 2019 - Trail users began spotting Betsy the cow in the fall, posting about their sightings on social media and giving her near-celebrity status.
3 January 2019 - A picture of a pelican and a dog lying on a pier together suggests they were serious BFFs.
20 December 2018 - Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez said he was instituting a new holiday tradition when he pardoned little pigs Layla and Luna outside a Miami restaurant.
9 September 2018 - A video purportedly documenting a new strain of marijuana that was crossbred with a Venus flytrap actually shows a barnacle.
22 August 2018 - A viral, scare-mongering Facebook post fabricated a series of fatal spider bites and used photographs of the relatively harmless woodlouse spider.
30 July 2018 - A photograph showing an odd-looking, large bat with an elongated face features a real animal, but the image may make the bat appear larger than normal.
