Webbed footprints litter the snow. A cacophony of honks echo across the lawn. Green-tinged excrement coats the sidewalks.

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan directs the Peabody Essex Museum, where she first began working two decades ago. Despite helming a museum that dates to 1799, Hartigan is forward-thinking about the role museums ...

The show, narrated by Tom Hanks, offers glimpses of critters large and small. And capturing that footage is no small feat.

Blue, a 21-year-old harbor seal, is believed to have contracted the virus through contact with a wild bird, zoo officials said.

Tests show bird flu caused the death of a 21-year-old harbor seal at a zoo in New Bedford, Massachusetts earlier this month.

Zoos are ramping up protections for their animals, after a seal died in February, from the avian flu. Blue, the 21-year-old ...

Back in the day, they called them "whippets." Now sold in large canisters with colorful names and flavors, nitrous oxide is ...

The bill was introduced to prevent another situation like one in New York where an illegal pet squirrel was taken and ...

Anyone looking to get a pet raccoon would need a permit, which proves they'll seek veterinary care, have an area for it and vaccinate it for rabies.

Some of the best museums in the country are in Massachusetts. USA Today's 10Best Readers' Choice Awards recently released its ...