VIENNA, Austria – Hens will be free to run around barnyards, lions and tigers will vanish from circus acts, and Dobermans will sport what nature intended – floppy ears and longer tails – under a tough ...

Hens will be free to run around barnyards, lions and tigers will vanish from circus acts, and Dobermans will sport what nature intended — floppy ears and longer tails — under a tough animal rights law ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - An Austrian applauded for capturing a 2.3-metre (7.5-foot) boa constrictor he said he discovered on a riverbank has admitted he made up the story to get rid of a pet snake he found ...

BERLIN, Germany — Austrian authorities say they have stopped a man at Vienna airport as he tried to smuggle 74 protected chameleons from Africa into the country. They said in a statement a 56-year-old ...

In the northern Hungarian Győr-Moson-Sopron county, trucks are transporting the carcasses of more than 3,000 animals to a state-owned area between the hamlets of Csemeztanya and Irénpuszta, near the ...

An Austrian woman was unpacking her suitcase when she found a family of scorpions inside it. There were 18 scorpions in total, consisting of a mother and her babies, according to an animal rescue ...

A rare visitor is causing a stir in Lower Austria: a moose known as "Emil" has been roaming the region for weeks, drawing crowds and online fans. Believed to have wandered in from Poland, the ...