The Detroit Free Press Yak mascot was a product of the newspaper's YAK! section. Here's the history of and what happened to ...

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville is relieving Smokey XI of his mascot duties after three short years due to a ...

Through their headspins, high jumps and playful antics, the mascots Xi Yangyang and Le Rongrong, inspired by the Chinese white dolphin, have become the unexpected stars of the ongoing 15th National ...

On October 10, 2025, in Jiangsu, China, @Jìdéwēnróu shared a funny video of people in mascot costumes engaging in a playful scuffle. In the video, a mouse mascot approaches a green mascot sitting on a ...

Life-sized or larger elephant representations abound around Tuscaloosa, saluting the University of Alabama's mascot.

CHICAGO -- No matter what you may think (or have heard), dogs and cats can’t talk. Neither can snakes or guinea pigs or any other species of animals that people consider pets. So it is impossible for ...

For some of us, the opportunity comes once a year — to try on another look and pretend to be something other than ourselves. But for some species, costumes are an everyday essential, and the stakes ...

Shoppers are expecting to spend some $860 million on pet costumes this Halloween, according to the National Retail Federation.

Art aficionados hoping to lighten up this particularly unhinged spooky season, find reprieve at Well Well Projects, Oregon Contemporary’s members gallery, for its cute and mysterious group exhibition ...

Neon signs, bullhorns and...inflatable frogs? Demonstrators in animal costumes have become the latest protest staple, sparked by a Portland protestor in an inflatable frog costume at an Oct. 4 rally ...