Millions of fans have watched videos of Ronaldo the dog, named after soccer great Cristiano Ronaldo, playing goalkeeper.

A video shared online authentically showed an injured stray dog walking into a veterinarian's clinic and receiving treatment.

To Brazilians, the ubiquitous caramel-colored mutts are a national icon. But a Mexican state has adopted them as its own ...

The U.S. has classified two Brazilian gangs as terrorist organizations, a decision that experts call a political one to support Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro.

Indonesia is set to publicly debut Satrio Wiratama, or Rio, the first giant panda born outside of China in three years.

But on my visit to the Pinheiros River in São Paulo, South America’s largest city, I also saw up close how not all capybaras ...

For two decades, Vietnam’s Pu Hoat Nature Reserve in Nghe An province suffered from “empty forest syndrome,” an ecological crisis where entire groups of animals vanish, leaving the forest unnaturally ...

A new genetic test has revealed that most of the free-roaming canines in Australia, often labeled "wild dogs," carry a significant amount of dingo ancestry. A team of Adelaide University researchers ...

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try again. That’s the message from the owner of Wild Thang, the newly crowned winner of the World’s Ugliest Dog contest, who finally won after five years ...

Brazilian police seized a record 48 tons of marijuana in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, uncovered by chance by a sniffer dog during a regular operation against criminal factions. During the operation in ...

Canadian backpacker Piper James’ body was discovered on the Queensland, Australia island of K'gari on the morning of Jan. 19 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The world’s biggest party is back as Carnival celebrations return to Brazil with glittery, outrageous costumes, samba rhythms ringing out until dawn and hundreds of raucous ...