More than 100 “cold-stunned” sea turtles rescued in North Carolina

January 23, 2020

First it was Florida’s falling iguanas, now North Carolina has stunned turtles — all shocked by the cold in the U.S. south. Cape Hatteras…

Florida Forecast: Cold and a chance of falling iguanas

January 22, 2020

Weather forecasters in Florida are having a particularly peak Florida field day. It began Tuesday when the National Weather Service Miami-South Florida warned of…

5 mountain lions caught in rare video at the edge of the El Dorado National Forest

January 18, 2020

Five mountain lions seen together on home surveillance videos is a rare gathering of the solitary big cats. The lions were spotted in California…

Earth’s oldest animal guts found in Nevada desert

January 13, 2020

A 550 million-year-old fossilized digestive tract found in the Nevada desert could be a key find in understanding the early history of animals on…

How does a puffin scratch an itch? With a stick, it turns out

January 8, 2020

Long known as geniuses of the animal kingdom, wild primates and elephants have been known to use tools such as sticks and rocks. But…

Magpie mimics emergency sirens amid Australian bushfires

January 2, 2020

Call it a sad testament to the bushfire reality facing people — and critters — in Australia. The Copacabana Rural Fire Brigade posted a video…

Opossum Impossible: JetBlue denies passenger return flight with his pet possum

December 27, 2019

Traveler Gerald Tautenhahn thought he had everything above board when he boarded a plane with his pet opossum Zatara for a journey from LAX…

Electric eel lights up Christmas tree at Tennessee Aquarium

December 18, 2019

Miguel Wattson is charging up the Christmas spirit. Miguel, of course, is an electric eel housed at the Tennessee Aquarium, who is positively merry….

Montreal says: See ya later, alligator … on a city street

December 15, 2019

In case you were wondering, this is how an alligator crosses the road. Slowly and carefully in cold Montreal where Mayssam Samaha couldn’t believe…

Frog First: Biology classes replace dissection of the real thing with “SynFrog”

December 7, 2019

Gone are the stomach churning days of the biology class frog dissection. At least at a school in Florida, where high school students now…