Animals and Wildlife

The whale was first spotted in April 2019 wearing a harness and what appeared to be a mount for a small camera and a buckle marked with text “Equipment St. Petersburg”.

A 1-in-30-million orange lobster was rescued and returned to the sea by animal advocacy organization Humane Long Island after being spotted in a seafood market in New York.

Authorities say a hunter in Alaska has been hospitalized after being mauled by a brown bear and shot during an effort to fend it off.

The oarfish, known to history as “sea serpents,” have a hallowed place in the museum of marine oddities: They can grow to dozens of feet in length and generally swim vertically

A bull bound for the slaughterhouse was instead killed after charging at a police officer in Raynham, Massachusetts, Monday, officials said.

Police say human remains have been found inside a large crocodile suspected of killing a tourist in Australia’s second fatal attack in about a month.

The wondrous Galapagos Islands and its many creatures have always been sensitive to changes in ocean temperatures. But the significant warming from climate change in recent years has meant more pressure on many species.

Thousands of people gathered in Virginia to watch the Chincoteague wild ponies make their annual swim across the Assateague Channel, the 99th year of the tradition.

The study claims to be the first report on cocaine and benzoylecgonine detection in free-ranging sharks.

A breaching whale came crashing down on a small boat in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, capsizing the boat but miraculously leaving those onboard uninjured.

Zookeepers at Florida’s Palm Beach Zoo and Conservation Society use a variety of ways to keep animals cool during the summer heat wave.

Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. No one knows how many there are, what they eat, or even where they live in the vast expanse of the southern Pacific Ocean.

One very lucky dog is recovering at a shelter after a group of cavers said their excursion into a western Virginia cave over the weekend turned into a rescue mission when they found her.

A man attempting to smuggle 104 live snakes in his pants was caught at a Chinese border this week, according to the country’s customs authority.

Elephants have trampled a Spanish tourist to death at a wildlife reserve in South Africa after he got out of his vehicle and approached a herd to take photographs.

Documents show up to about 450,000 barred owls would be shot over three decades after the birds from the eastern U.S. encroached into the West Coast territory of two owls: northern spotted owls and California spotted owls.

A Florida trapper wrangled a 17-foot python over the weekend in the Everglades near Fort Lauderdale, and the major catch was caught on video. 

A Brazilian rainbow boa constrictor in England underwent a process of asexual reproduction called parthenogenesis.

A woman and her baby were driving through Topeka, Kansas, when the woman saw a deer on the opposite side of the road.

The Aquarium and Shark Lab in Hendersonville said late Sunday that Charlotte died after getting a rare reproductive disease. It said in February that Charlotte had gotten pregnant despite not having shared a tank with a male stingray in at least eight years.