Cosmo, the Bernese Mountain Dog, was excited to play when he realized hot dogs were the prize!

Akron Zoo CEO and President Doug Piekarz talks with the animals and even a reporter about his love for critters, vision for ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it ...

Conservation icon Jane Goodall made a stop in Portland on Friday to encourage students and other Oregonians to make a ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.

Take a look at the Americas Animal Pack Announcement Trailer for Planet Zoo, a zoo management simulation game developed by Frontier Developments. Players will soon be able to access a brand new Animal ...

"Miss Piggy has been friendly with our staff so far, eating her pig pellets... we will continue to monitor her progress." ...

Replacing a human organ with a pig’s is complicated, said Dr. Shimul Shah, an expert in xenotransplantation — the transplant of animal organs into humans — and division chief of abdominal ...

Surgeons have carried out the world's first liver transplant from a pig into a human recipient. The operation, carried out in China, used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to ...

and the Chinese team ran their pig liver experiment under the supervision of the hospital’s human and animal ethics committees. They got the informed consent of the patient's four immediate ...