October 18, 2021, 6:05am Life
Walking through the Field Museum’s Evolving Planet exhibit, a museum visitor can see how the world has changed during the last 4.5 billion years. Read story
October 17, 2021, 4:30pm Nation & World
On Oct. 3, the first winged victim of the Orange County oil spill washed ashore in Newport Beach. Its white and light-brown feathers were caked with black crude. Cold, oily water had seeped through its down and onto its skin. Read story
October 17, 2021, 6:02am Clark County Life
The animals that share our homes and lives offer us companionship, comfort and affection. They’re also endlessly entertaining and pretty darn adorable. Art at the CAVE has unleashed this love of companion animals with its current exhibit, “Pet Project,” on display through Oct. 30 at its downtown Vancouver gallery. Read story
October 15, 2021, 6:29am Life
Rabies concerns are preventing dogs that might have been abused or slated for meat markets in other countries from being adopted in America as pets. Read story
October 15, 2021, 6:28am Life
A rare two-headed diamondback terrapin turtle is alive and kicking — with all six of its legs — at the Birdsey Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts after hatching two weeks ago. Read story
October 15, 2021, 6:04am Life
Wildlife officials in Colorado say an elusive elk that has been wandering the hills with a car tire around its neck for at least two years has finally been freed of the obstruction. Read story
October 11, 2021, 1:50pm Business
Idaho officials will make available up to $200,000 to be divided into payments for hunters and trappers who kill wolves in the state through next summer. Read story
October 11, 2021, 6:05am Pets & Wildlife
In the Green Swamp of Polk County, Florida, Paul Sykes heard a sound that raised the hairs on the back of his neck. The sharp honk may have sounded, to a layperson, like a stepped-on squeaky toy. But to Sykes, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist then based in… Read story
October 11, 2021, 6:02am Pets & Wildlife
Meet Amelia Mraz and Natasha Pham, the founders of Half Mad Honey, an apiary at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia. They use their hives to help people practice both mindfulness and distress tolerance through apiary therapy. Read story
October 10, 2021, 10:18am Nation & World
The first victims are seabirds, graceful creatures that alight upon the ocean’s surface. They’ve been landing on the oil slick that seeped up from a ruptured pipeline, diving through its toxic sheen. Read story
