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Iditarod winner Brent Sass poses for photos with lead dogs Morello, left, and Slater in the finish chute of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome, Alaska, Tuesday March 15, 2022.

Brent Sass wins his 1st Iditarod sled dog race across Alaska

Iditarod winner Brent Sass poses for photos with lead dogs Morello, left, and Slater in the finish chute of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome, Alaska, Tuesday March 15, 2022.

March 15, 2022, 2:44pm National Sports

Musher Brent Sass won the arduous Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across Alaska on Tuesday as his team of 11 dogs dashed off the Bering Sea ice through a crowd of fans in downtown Nome. Read story

Oregon man pleads guilty to importing live scorpions

March 14, 2022, 6:49pm Life

An Oregon man has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally importing and exporting hundreds of live scorpions. Read story

A Labrador retriever named Atkins sits on Levi McAllister's lap as he gets two teeth pulled at Charlotte Pediatric Dentistry in Charlotte, N.C.

Dogs having their day at the dentist

A Labrador retriever named Atkins sits on Levi McAllister's lap as he gets two teeth pulled at Charlotte Pediatric Dentistry in Charlotte, N.C.

March 11, 2022, 7:29pm Nation & World

The first time 11-year-old Levi McAllister had a tooth pulled, he screamed, kicked and struggled so much that his mom had to hold him down. So when Levi returned to Charlotte Pediatric Dentistry in January to get two more teeth pulled, dental hygienist Barb Kucera had a surprise for him:… Read story

FILE -Sweetwater Jaycees clean and skinned rattlesnakes during 57th Sweetwater Jaycees World Largest Rattlesnake Round-up at the Nolan County Coliseum in Sweetwater Texas, March 14, 2015. Animal rights activists praised an annual rattlesnake roundup in south Georgia that recently changed the format of this month's event to celebrate living snakes without skinning and butchering them.

Rattlesnake roundups take 2 paths, drawing praise and scorn

FILE -Sweetwater Jaycees clean and skinned rattlesnakes during 57th Sweetwater Jaycees World Largest Rattlesnake Round-up at the Nolan County Coliseum in Sweetwater Texas, March 14, 2015. Animal rights activists praised an annual rattlesnake roundup in south Georgia that recently changed the format of this month's event to celebrate living snakes without skinning and butchering them.

March 11, 2022, 8:34am Nation & World

An annual rattlesnake roundup in south Georgia recently changed the format of this month’s event to celebrate living snakes without skinning and butchering them, earning plaudits from animal rights activists. Read story

In this undated photo provided by the Audubon Nature Institute is Sheldon, a maned wolf, a father of new puppies at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. Near-threatened maned wolves brought to New Orleans to breed have done just that, and are rearing four puppies, the Audubon Zoo announced Thursday, March 3, 2022. Three are black and one is silver, but they'??ll mature to their parents'?? coloration '?? red coats shading to black on muzzles and long, slender legs.

Zoo’s maned wolves have 4 pups

In this undated photo provided by the Audubon Nature Institute is Sheldon, a maned wolf, a father of new puppies at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. Near-threatened maned wolves brought to New Orleans to breed have done just that, and are rearing four puppies, the Audubon Zoo announced Thursday, March 3, 2022. Three are black and one is silver, but they'??ll mature to their parents'?? coloration '?? red coats shading to black on muzzles and long, slender legs.

March 11, 2022, 6:05am Life

Near-threatened maned wolves brought to New Orleans to breed have done just that, and are rearing four puppies, the Audubon Zoo announced Thursday. Read story

The Dog Aging Project out of the University of Washington is on a mission to find the inner workings of the aging process in dogs and learn how to slow it down.

Extending dogs’ life focus of study

The Dog Aging Project out of the University of Washington is on a mission to find the inner workings of the aging process in dogs and learn how to slow it down.

March 11, 2022, 6:03am Life

Want your four-legged canine friend to live a few years longer? Researchers are working to make that happen with a pill. Read story

Gray whales make early appearance off Anacortes

March 8, 2022, 7:44am Northwest

Gray whales are giving local whale watchers an extra treat this winter. Read story

Shows are over for Seaquarium’s killer whale Lolita, new managers say

March 6, 2022, 9:10am Nation & World

The shows are over for Lolita the killer whale. Read story

Chief of Animal Health Gwen Myers holds up a partially dissolved penny found inside the stomach of an alligator at Zoo Miami in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. (Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald/TNS) (Daniel A.

Zoo animals increasingly eating items dropped, thrown by humans

Chief of Animal Health Gwen Myers holds up a partially dissolved penny found inside the stomach of an alligator at Zoo Miami in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. (Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald/TNS) (Daniel A.

March 4, 2022, 6:05am Life

Are you missing your phone? It might be in the digestive tract of an alligator. Read story

Roux, a baby orangutan born on Christmas Eve, grips assistant curator of primates Kelsey Forbes' fingers as she lifts him to strengthen his grip and arm muscles on Feb. 22 at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans.

‘Baby boot camp’ exercises endangered orangutan

Roux, a baby orangutan born on Christmas Eve, grips assistant curator of primates Kelsey Forbes' fingers as she lifts him to strengthen his grip and arm muscles on Feb. 22 at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans.

March 4, 2022, 6:03am Life

The 2-month-old critically endangered orangutan, still so tiny that infant-sized diapers hung loosely in front of his belly, clung tightly to a caretaker’s fingers as she lifted him gently from her lap. Read story