Dogs and humans have a special connection; afterall they are called a man's best friend. Many dogs have specialised training to help the ill or the injured and even non-trained dogs seem to sense whenever their owners are unhappy. However, one particular dog’s sympathy for his owner resulted in a big financial hiccup for his dad.

A baby elephant struck by a motorbike while crossing a road in Thailand survived after it was revived by an off-duty rescue worker. Mana Srivate told Reuters news agency he had performed dozens of resuscitation attempts in his career - but never before on an elephant.

When Derek Prue Sr. noticed his son wasn't comfortable with a large birthmark, he decided to do something to help him feel more confident.

It’s a time-honored tradition to write to Santa Claus. But some kids don’t want the latest toy or a new iPhone — they just want to help their family pay the bills or to be loved. A recent photo posted on Twitter of a letter to Santa from a little boy named Will is striking a chord around the world.

“He knows that the dog has the same condition as he does," said the boy's mother, Ashley Boyers. "He understands.”

A group of friends with big dreams and even bigger hearts started a summer business that is helping black-owned businesses and neighborhoods in Minneapolis affected by the coronavirus pandemic and protests following the death of George Floyd.

At first, a Belgian man thought the noise coming from his outdoor planter was pesky pigeons. Turns out, it was Europe’s largest owl — four of them. One of the world’s largest owls, the Eurasian eagle owl, set up camp in Jos Baart’s third-storey apartment planter. Since the mother owl’s three gigantic chicks hatched, they’ve taken to watching TV through the window with their new landlord.

An Australian Koolie dog who was abandoned by his family has been rescued and retrained to detect koalas. Bear has been following the aftermath of Australia's bushfires since January, finding sick, injured or starving koalas that otherwise would have perished. He has now found more than 100.

Here’s some happy news, courtesy of Adventure Aquarium. The aquarium’s third little blue penguin chick is “doing well and growing strong," general curator Nicole Grandinetti said Monday. She weighed less than 2 ounces upon being hatched April 2, but is now up to 11.6 ounces and eating fish including silversides, trout and herring filets.

More than a month after tornadoes tore apart Middle Tennessee, a beloved pup made reunited with her family in Putnam County. WTVF reported that Eric and Faith Johnson had been searching for their Australian Shepherd named Bella for 54 days after a tornado destroyed their home in Cookeville March 3.

Kimberly Wieneke says she knew she loved 2-year-old Jaden the minute he came into her family's life.

As social distancing guidelines remain in effect, animal rescue advocates are celebrating a huge win in Chicago. For the first time in the shelter’s history, Chicago Animal Care and Control is completely empty of adoptable animals. There’s no doubt that we’re living in unprecedented times, and there’s even more doom and gloom in the news than usual. But behind all that worry, there are stories popping up around the country of people coming together to accomplish great things.

A zoo in Belgium has shared some amazing photos of a blossoming friendship between a family of orangutans and their otter neighbors. The animals live together at Pairi Daiza zoo in Domaine du Cambron, as part of a program designed to maintain the primates' wellbeing in captivity.

It's a sweet moment. A young boy running up to a man delivering pizza and giving him a big hug. All caught on a doorbell camera in West Warwick, Rhode Island by Lindsey Sheely. "I put it up on my Instagram because we thought it was funny and cute," said Sheely. What Sheely didn't know at the time is what that moment would mean for the man behind the pizza box, Ryan Catterson.

Marriage requires a lot of important ingredients to flourish. For John and Charlotte Henderson, that equation sustained their marriage for 80 years now. They are both at respectable ages as well. John Henderson is 107 while his wife is 105. They’ve seen numerous major events in American history and world history. They have seen an era when kings sent armies to conquer lands and watched the first man go into outer space. And they witnessed all of this together as the world’s oldest married couple.

It had been nine long years of fertility treatments, miscarriages and adoption stress, but Dustin and Caren Moore finally were on a flight home with their adopted baby girl in their arms. They nervously cradled their daughter, who was just 8 days old.

Motorworks Brewing in Bradenton recently teamed up with Manatee County Animal Services to help spread the word about adoptable dogs. One of the dogs pictured on a beer can, Day Day, is going to her forever home, but she wasn't adopted.

Jubilee, a 4-year-old Siberian husky, initially had trouble finding interested adopters at Monmouth County's Husky House — a nonprofit that helps abandoned huskies and other dogs across the Tri-State area. "I came from a 'breeder' who couldn't sell me because he said I was 'weird' looking. Huskies are majestic looking dogs and I don't know why I don't look like them," the 'pup' wrote in a Facebook post.

Since starting in September 2019, the Australian wildfires have killed more than 1 billion animals and devastated large swaths of the country. Countless courageous men and women have worked hard to combat the infernos and save the country’s animals, many of which are endangered. Among these brave rescue workers is Patsy — a six-year-old kelpie-border collie.

With the chain of unfortunate events occurring around the world simultaneously, one cannot help but to hope for a silver lining that would tone down, even for a moment, the devastation that is unraveling before our very eyes. More often that not, it can come in the form of a heartwarming news about a certain incident involving animals and their selfless acts.