Japan Post will not deliver live reptiles starting from April on animal welfare grounds, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday.

The 53-year-old woman who received the genetically modified animal organ is the ideal recipient to push science forward.

(Kyodo) HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) -- A man was arrested for allegedly kicking a rabbit on an island in western Japan, police said Wednesday, amid a spate of violence against the animals that has led to 77 ...

A man was arrested for kicking a rabbit on an island in western Japan, police said Wednesday, amid a spate of violence against the animals that has led to 77 deaths. Riku Hotta, 25, is suspected of ...

Volunteers asking for help in catching animals responsible for eating koi out of the Penticton Japanese Garden pond ...

Fish have feelings too – at least if a lonesome sunfish in a Japanese aquarium is anything to go by. Animal caretakers at the Kaikyokan in the southern city of Shimonoseki were concerned when ...

Recently, something quite unusual happened at Japan's Kaikyokan Aquarium when one of its sunfish began acting up and the ...

A new study out of Kyoto University in Japan finds that this particular bodily function is contagious among chimpanzees.

Scientists suggest captive chimpanzees engage in 'socially contagious urination'—that is, when one primate starts peeing, others quickly follow suit ...

Ghost of Yotei is finally on the horizon. We've had to wait five years for a sequel to Ghost of Tsushima, but it could've ...

Local residents in the city of Seki, Gifu Prefecture, are on edge after animal remains were found buried in a flower bed, the second such occurrence in the prefecture this month. According to ...