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Skimmers at St. Pete Beach, Fla., on June 11.

Saving the shorebirds, one trip at a time

Skimmers at St. Pete Beach, Fla., on June 11.

July 12, 2021, 6:04am Life

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. – Ed Steponaitis jumps off the boat and trudges through the murky, lukewarm Gulf of Mexico. His shorts soak in the waist-deep saltwater. Read story

L25 is the oldest of all the southern resident orca whales, estimated to have been born in 1928, before any of the vast environmental change now confronting her family.

Record heat, drought threaten L25, the oldest orca — and the winter Chinook she depends on

L25 is the oldest of all the southern resident orca whales, estimated to have been born in 1928, before any of the vast environmental change now confronting her family.

July 12, 2021, 6:00am Life

She is still out there: L25, the oldest of the orca matriarchs, leaders of the southern resident J, K and L pods. Read story

Animal rights group calls for investigations into WSU research practices

July 9, 2021, 9:00am Latest News

SAEN, an Ohio-based animal rights watchdog, is calling for investigations into Washington State University's animal research practices, citing reports of welfare issues and fabricated data in a scientific article. Read story

Second wolf pack makes Chelan County its home

July 9, 2021, 7:48am Northwest

Chelan County is home to a new wolf pack, as of last winter, located near Lake Chelan. Read story

A tiger receives a COVID-19 vaccine July 1 at the Oakland Zoo in Oakland, Calif. Tigers are trained to voluntarily present themselves for minor medical procedures, including COVID-19 vaccinations.

Zoo animals get COVID shot

A tiger receives a COVID-19 vaccine July 1 at the Oakland Zoo in Oakland, Calif. Tigers are trained to voluntarily present themselves for minor medical procedures, including COVID-19 vaccinations.

July 9, 2021, 6:05am Life

A San Francisco Bay Area zoo is inoculating its big cats, bears and ferrets against the coronavirus as part of a national effort to protect animals using an experimental vaccine. Read story

Anne Drozd, museum coordinator at Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library Museum, stands at the entrance to the library's new exhibit, "The Dog Show," on Thursday, June 24, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio. Drozd said the genesis for the exhibit came when the late Brad Anderson, the creator of Marmaduke, donated his collection in 2018, including 16,000 original Marmaduke cartoons from 1954 to 2010.

Museum fetes 200 years of cartoon canines

Anne Drozd, museum coordinator at Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library Museum, stands at the entrance to the library's new exhibit, "The Dog Show," on Thursday, June 24, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio. Drozd said the genesis for the exhibit came when the late Brad Anderson, the creator of Marmaduke, donated his collection in 2018, including 16,000 original Marmaduke cartoons from 1954 to 2010.

July 9, 2021, 6:05am Entertainment

In a 1970 Beetle Bailey comic strip, the character known as Sarge berates his uniform-wearing dog, Otto, for a paperwork mistake. Read story

Some scientists are now taking a different approach to human pet allergies. Rather than trying to change allergic humans or their environment, they're trying to change cats. Purina began the competition in the early days of the pandemic with a cat food -- Pro Plan LiveClear -- that it says can reduce the protein that most allergic people react to by 47 percent after three weeks.

Researchers trying to make cats nonallergenic

Some scientists are now taking a different approach to human pet allergies. Rather than trying to change allergic humans or their environment, they're trying to change cats. Purina began the competition in the early days of the pandemic with a cat food -- Pro Plan LiveClear -- that it says can reduce the protein that most allergic people react to by 47 percent after three weeks.

July 7, 2021, 3:53pm Life

Any cat lover who has watched an allergic friend react to a beloved pet knows the dark powers that lurk in that luxurious feline fur. Within minutes, an allergic human exposed to a cat can begin sneezing and wheezing. Eyes water and itch. The misery is obvious. Read story

12-foot python escapes inside Louisiana’s largest mall

July 7, 2021, 8:57am Nation & World

Authorities say they’ve been searching for a 12-foot python that escaped from its enclosure inside Louisiana’s largest shopping mall. Read story

Grizzly bear attacks, kills camper in western Montana

July 6, 2021, 11:41am Nation & World

A grizzly bear attacked and killed a person who was camping in western Montana early Tuesday, after previously wandering into the campsite, the Powell County sheriff said. Read story

THIS CORRECTS THAT BIG JAKE WAS CERTIFIED AS THE TALLEST HORSE IN 2010, NOT 2020 AS ORIGINALLY SENT - FILE - Jerry Gilbert brushes Big Jake at the Midwest Horse Fair in Madison, Wisc., in this Friday, April 11, 2014, file photo. The world's tallest horse has died in Wisconsin. WMTV reported Monday, July 5, 2021, that the 20-year-old Belgian named "Big Jake" died several weeks ago. Big Jake lived on Smokey Hollow Farm in Poynette. Big Jake was 6-foot-10 and weighed 2,500 pounds. The Guinness Book of World Records certified him as the world's tallest living horse in 2010.

World’s tallest horse Big Jake dies in Wisconsin at age 20

THIS CORRECTS THAT BIG JAKE WAS CERTIFIED AS THE TALLEST HORSE IN 2010, NOT 2020 AS ORIGINALLY SENT - FILE - Jerry Gilbert brushes Big Jake at the Midwest Horse Fair in Madison, Wisc., in this Friday, April 11, 2014, file photo. The world's tallest horse has died in Wisconsin. WMTV reported Monday, July 5, 2021, that the 20-year-old Belgian named "Big Jake" died several weeks ago. Big Jake lived on Smokey Hollow Farm in Poynette. Big Jake was 6-foot-10 and weighed 2,500 pounds. The Guinness Book of World Records certified him as the world's tallest living horse in 2010.

July 5, 2021, 9:18am Life

The world’s tallest horse has died in Wisconsin. Read story