For weeks, the story of Punch the monkey has tugged at heartstrings around the world. Videos of this lonely baby monkey at Japan's Ichikawa Zoo have triggered global outpourings of empathy, grief and ...

In a recent post from the Philadelphia Zoo, Travis Kelce now appears to be the proud parent of a trio of otters. Yeyuno, Thor and Matteo are all featured on a Certificate of Adoption hanging on their ...

An image of a pair of southern elephant seal pups has won the Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) 2026 contest. Matty ...

Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an ...

A nature photographer has captutred adorable images of a sea otter and her pup cuddling as they float.  The sweet snaps, which were taken by Suzi Eszterhas, show the mother sea otter lifting her pup ...

Security footage captured two otters “rolling, sliding and romping” through fresh snow at Baltimore’s National Aquarium.

From the last thylacine to Mollie the drinking, smoking orangutan, little Punch the monkey is the latest in a long line of lonely zoo animals.

Research from Adelaide University and the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) has shown for the first time that Australian sea lion pups can learn foraging behavior from their ...

Punch-kun, a baby macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo, became an internet star for his bond with an orangutan plush. There are many ...

Did you know that otters sometimes hold hands while they float? It looks adorable, but it is also a clever water trick. Even when a river or estuary looks calm, ...

Joining next month's lineup of LEGO releases is another very cute set: the LEGO Ideas Floating Sea Otters. If you're dying to add this delightful build to your collection, preorders are already live ...