A traveling circus set to perform in Astoria this week is drawing protests from animal rights activists, who plan to gather ...

The golden age of the circus is long past, and gone are the days when bombastic advertisements would draw thousands of clamoring fans eager to see the exotic spectacles they promised. While that may ...

In the short clip shared by user @soin1d, a fully grown male elephant is seen standing briefly at the edge of his wading pool ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A circus violated an animal welfare law by allowing three elephants to briefly get loose in Missouri and watering them too close to a Pennsylvania show’s public area where a child ...

This weekend's last show on earth for "The Greatest Show on Earth" has been in the making for 22 years, since a series of I-Team reports questioned whether elephants at Ringling Brothers and Barnum & ...

At a sold-out circus show in Hawaii, the audience cheered as Tyke the elephant entered the ring for what seemed like a normal performance. But within moments, it became clear that this was not part of ...

"Water for Elephants" musical tells story of traveling Depression-era circus, which includes Walter the clown.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wanting to run away with the circus was never a joke for Tyler West. This full-time clown said he's known that's what he wanted to ...