Animals

Alligators, bears, hippos and more animals are getting messed up on a bunch of different substances ... and, a few intrepid wildlife experts are taking fans inside the situation.

The trailer for "Animals on Drugs" -- a new Discovery Channel series premiering later this month -- follows Forrest Galante and his team as they look into a few animals that have become addicted to some destructive substances.

For example ... Galante and his team get up close and personal with gators high on meth, hard-drinking bears and Pablo Escobar's famed cocaine hippos.

Peanut the Squirrel is thrust back into headlines, with Elon Musk invoking the little guy in a rant about the latest Jeffrey Epstein news ... but Peanut's owner ain't thrilled about the stunt.

Mark Longo tells TMZ ... he's totally honored Musk mentioned Peanut in his post, and now people are talking about the controversial deaths of his beloved pet squirrel and raccoon, Fred, but he wishes EM would do more to help the family's cause.

We talked to Mark right after Elon posted on X a classic meme featuring Jim from "The Office" with the words, "More squirrels and raccoons have been arrested ... than anyone on Epstein's client list. Government is deeply broken."

Horse-mounted federal agents robed in tactical gear descended on a Los Angeles park alongside about 90 members of the California National Guard Monday -- a move Mayor Karen Bass is condemning as a "political stunt."

Check out the chilling clip -- rows of heavily-armed officers march through the mostly-empty MacArthur Park Monday via horseback and on foot ... seemingly conducting an immigration sweep.

Bass shared the video on X shortly after she was notified of the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and military personnel ... calling the act "absolutely outrageous." She also claimed the park was full of life about 20 minutes earlier.

A wildlife advocate says the fireworks in Big Bear could seriously impact the young bald eagles born just a few months ago ... and, they need to be stopped.

We spoke with Sandy Steers -- the executive director of the environmental org. the Friends of Big Bear Valley -- about the July 4th fireworks show in the area ... and, she says she worries about all kinds of wildlife this time of year.

However, she's especially concerned about the eagles ... who she say have poor night vision -- and, if they freak out and jump from the nest they could run into a tree or get otherwise hurt.

Only in Australia ... a domestic flight grounded for two hours after a snake decided to hiss its way into the cargo hold, and no Samuel L. Jackson on board to save the day!!!

Passengers were boarding Virgin Australia flight VA337 Tuesday in Melbourne, when ... the sssurprise serpent was spotted in the cargo hold. No one knew if it was chill or deadly, so they called in the big guns: snake catcher Mark Pelley.

There’s video of Mark diving into the cargo hold to do the heroic deed -- and only after he bagged the wriggler did he realize the 2-foot green tree snake was harmless ... well, not poisonous.

President Trump's got 'em LOL'in down in the Everglades, where he's holding court at his new immigrant detention center ... and dropping one-liners at his predecessor's expense.

POTUS was touring the facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," when a reporter pointed out the joint is actually very comfortably air-conditioned -- but 47 blew off that remark, and instead fired off a comedic shot at former President Biden.

Doing his best Henny Youngman (Google him, kids) impression, Trump said ... "Hey, Biden wanted me in here. It didn't work out that way, but wanted me in here, that son of a b*tch."

Donald Trump was in great spirits Tuesday morning ... and why wouldn't he be, 'cause he was talking about one of his favorite subjects -- alligators gobbling up escaped prisoners!

The commander-in-chief was about to depart the White House for the opening of a new Florida detention center called "Alligator Alcatraz," a controversial holding facility for undocumented immigrants as they wait to be deported.

Outside the WH, Trump took a few questions from the press pool, and one reporter asked about the concept behind "Alligator Alcatraz," which is located in the swampy Everglades about an hour west of Miami.

A pup finally found her forever home after ages in the shelter -- and the handoff video? Total tearjerker. Get ready to ugly cry (in a good way)!

Check out this IG clip -- 4-year-old terrier Louise spent a whopping 640 days at NYC's RG Cares Shelter ... until last week, when her perfect match finally showed up. Staff say after a few meet-and-greets, they just knew this guy was The One.

It was a total tearjerker -- the whole staff came out to say goodbye, many holding back tears as Louise trotted off to her new life.

A fearless guy ran up to a shark and punched it in the face in Australia just moments after it clamped onto a teenager -- and it was all caught on camera!

Terrifying footage at Cabarita Beach in New South Wales Sunday shows a man charging at the 7-foot-long shark lurking near the shore, while others rush the injured teen onto the sand to safety.

A heroic move, but the boy had already been injured on his right arm, wrist, and leg. Still, it worked -- the shark backed off!

A neighborhood in Philadelphia was blown apart by an explosion early Sunday morning ... and, pictures taken at the scene captured the devastation.

The Philly Fire Department shared pictures from the scene in Nicetown–Tioga -- a North Philadelphia neighborhood -- where the acting PFD chief Daniel McCarty said a trio of row houses "exploded in on themselves" at around 4:30 AM ET.

Photos show firefighters dousing the houses in water while the smoking, smoldering remains of houses litter the streets.

Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier just cooked up the wildest plan yet -- turning the gator-infested Everglades into an immigration detention center for Trump’s mass deportation mission.

In a video posted to X on Thursday, Uthmeier chomped into his bold plan -- building a holding center right in gator territory, proudly calling it "Alligator Alcatraz." His pitch? Who needs barbed wire when you’ve got built-in bite patrol from Florida’s finest reptiles? Y'know, a bit like the sharks circling Alcatraz!

The 39-square-mile site -- a remote, dormant airport facility called the Miami-Dade Collier County Training Facility, about an hour due west of downtown Miami -- offered to the Trump administration comes with its own landing strip for flying in undocumented immigrants and, according to Uthmeier, could cage up to 1,000 people in just 30 to 60 days once construction begins.

It was a scene straight out of the 2010 Oscar-winning documentary film "The Cove" ... an ocean of blood washed up on the shores of the Faroe Islands in Denmark -- and the morbid vision was from the slaughter of dolphins.

The gruesome photos of the sea turned metallic red were snapped Friday in a cove after hunters carried out their annual summer Viking tradition of massacring the porpoises.

In fact, the grindadrap, or "grind" as it's sometimes called, has been around for a thousand years ... and it calls for Faroe hunters to surround the dolphins in their fishing boats to draw them in to the shallow waters.

Snoop Dogg has taken a blow to his family tree ... his beloved French bulldog Juelz, who Wiz Khalifa famously brought into his life.

On Thursday, Snoop revealed Juelz had bounced to Doggy Heaven, leaving him with a mountain of memories to mourn over.

Wiz gifted Juelz to Snoop for his 43rd birthday in 2014, and they've been road dawgs ever since ... the perfect companion to his other Frenchie, Frank.

A family dog had the scare of a lifetime -- yanked into an alligator’s jaws right from his Florida backyard -- and while he somehow made it out alive, his injuries are nothing short of brutal.

The pics are rough -- the German Shepherd named Zeus suffered a fractured jaw and deep puncture wounds ... he had his jaw realigned and wired shut by a veterinarian, all after he broke free from the gator that busted through the backyard fence in Wesley Chapel, near Tampa, and dragged him to a nearby pond.

Zeus’ owner, Susan Alkhatib, told WFLA it all unfolded in a blur last week -- the whole family rushed outside to watch in horror as the gator thrashed around with Zeus' head locked in its jaws.

Dakota Johnson’s the queen of savage rid-or-die energy -- because she once mailed a gallon of gorilla poop to her friend’s ex.

Yup, you heard right -- Dakota spilled the dirty tea on Vanity Fair’s Lie Detector Video Series, saying she figured the guy wouldn’t be watching anyway ... so she just confessed to ordering a delivery of some grade-A, stinky revenge.

Dakota said the messy deed went down a few years back ... and when asked where one would even go to cop a similar gift, she didn’t miss a beat -- pointing folks to the website she ordered from, which has since rebranded itself, swapping in the word "poop" for "sh*t."

Dogs on Skid Row are being fed fentanyl, bred for money, and otherwise abused and neglected, and politicians are doing nothing about ... so says an animal rights activist.

Joey Tuccio -- an advocate for and rescuer of animals, who works with the nonprofit Starts With One Today -- stopped by "TMZ Live" to shine a light on dogs living on Los Angeles' notorious Skid Row ... a collection of streets in downtown where many homeless people live.

Tuccio says there are about 100 dogs living in the area ... and, while he doesn't want to see people's pets taken away, he's concerned about the dogs he's seen, which he says some people are using as guinea pigs to test fentanyl.