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Yellowstone's grizzlies are going to be particularly hungry this fall, and that means more dangerous meetings with humans in a year that is already the area's deadliest on record.

Scientists report that a favorite food of many bears, nuts from whitebark pine cones, is scarce. So as grizzlies look to put on some major pounds in preparation for the long winter ahead, scientists say, they will be looking for another source of protein – meat – and running into trouble along the way.

A backpacker shot and killed a grizzly bear with his handgun in Alaska's Denali National Park, officials said.

An attorney says Sandy Herold — the Connecticut woman whose chimpanzee mauled and blinded her friend — died Monday night of a ruptured aortic aneurysm.

Tragedy struck at a Pennsylvania circus Friday after a startled elephant stomped its trainer to death, police said.

Argentina coach Diego Maradona underwent minor facial surgery on Tuesday after he was bitten by one of his pet dogs. The Argentine television station TN said Maradona had reconstructive surgery to repair an injury to his upper lip after he was bitten. He was expected to be discharged later Tuesday.

An animal keeper has died after being bitten by a tiger at the Shanghai Zoo.

An eastern Pennsylvania man was attacked and killed by a "temperamental" pet bull a day before his 53rd birthday, the coroner's office said Monday.

A kangaroo startled by a man walking his dog attacked the pair, pinning the pet underwater and slashing the owner in the abdomen with its hind legs....

The Connecticut woman who was mauled by a chimpanzee earlier this year is making her first public appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

A rising Canadian folk singer was killed by coyotes this week in a national park in Nova Scotia, a park spokesman said Thursday.