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Humans aren’t the only species missing seeing their friends and other people during the coronavirus pandemic. Without any guests at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, the animals who live at the now empty museum are lonely too. That’s where Nicole Conklin comes in. She’s on the museum’s animal husbandry team and goes to work every day to...

What happens inside a museum when no guests are there? NBC New York’s Ida Siegal takes us inside the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey for a tour.

Long Branch Ocean Rescue lifeguard Brian Shea came across a massive whale off the coast of New Jersey over the Memorial Day weekend. Photo Credit: Leigh Byron.

Dozen of puppies arrived in the city today to find new homes, after Animal Light House Rescue helped bring them over from overcrowded shelters in Puerto Rico.

Five ducklings going through the worst days of their new lives were rescued Thursday from the treacherous Central Park waters in which a snapping turtle is believed to have killed their mother

A brewery on Long Island is delivering more than just beer during the coronavirus pandemic. It’s delivering joy brought by two golden retrievers carrying beer cans.

NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A 10-year-old German boy transformed his quarantine boredom into creativity by creating a mini beer garden for a local squirrel.

The San Diego Zoo has announced the latest addition of its wild family – a male pygmy hippopotamus whose successful birth was the first of its kind at the zoo in more than 30 years.

The Calgary Zoo will be returning two giant pandas on loan from China because a scarcity of flights due to COVID-19 has caused problems with getting enough fresh and tasty bamboo to feed them.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Vet School are studying whether dogs can use their keen sense of smell to identify COVID-19 patients.

Call it, the slowest eight minutes in sports. With the Kentucky Derby having been postponed, the first Saturday in May has yielded to the legs of a bunch of slowpokes: Seattle Slow headlines a field of turtles — yes, turtles — that will race in the Kentucky Turtle Derby. The race is more methodical marathon that mad dash to the…

A North Carlina pug named Winston has tested positive for the coronavirus along with three human members of his family after a Duke University study.

The director of an organization that helps find foster homes for dogs in shelters said last year at this time, the organization had applications from about 140 people per month — it’s now around 3,000

Two pet cats in New York have tested positive for Coronavirus. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Deserted streets and shuttered businesses may be an ominous sight for humans, but the animal world doesn’t seem to be complaining.  As the coronavirus pandemic continues to keep countries around the world on lockdown, wild animals – like goats in Wales or baby turtles in Brazil – appear to be soaking in the lack of bustling activity. In South Africa,…

Dog lost during the recent Nashville tornado finally reunites with his 89-year-old owner. WSMV’s Terry Bulger reports.

While the nonprofit says they save the dogs with slight imperfections, like overbites, from certain death, critics question how the high-end breeds are rescued at such young ages, and why the adoption fees are so high

An Albany lawmaker is calling for In Our Hands Rescue to lose its charity status after learning the animal adoption group pays breeders for “designer” puppies and charges up to $1,500 to families who want to give the dogs homes

I-Team’s Chris Glorioso reports.