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Twin red pandas huddle with each other at the zoo Tuesday in Syracuse, N.Y.

N.Y. zoo announces birth of 2 red pandas

Twin red pandas huddle with each other at the zoo Tuesday in Syracuse, N.Y.

August 2, 2018, 9:51am Life

Officials at an upstate New York zoo have announced the birth of twin red pandas, an endangered species found in Asia. Read story

Virginia Tech Ph.D. student Sam Freeze prepares to release an Eastern red female bat in Prince William Forest Park in Quantico, Va.

Scientists try to save bats from mysterious disease

Virginia Tech Ph.D. student Sam Freeze prepares to release an Eastern red female bat in Prince William Forest Park in Quantico, Va.

August 2, 2018, 6:00am Life

When the sun sets and nearby Marines wind down for the evening, Sam Freeze suits up and goes bat hunting. Read story

San Antonio Aquarium recovers shark stolen in baby stroller

July 31, 2018, 8:12am Nation & World

Two men have confessed to snatching a small shark from a Texas aquarium’s interactive touch tank, then whisking it away, wrapping it in a blanket and concealing it in a baby stroller, police say. Read story

A burrowing owl hunts for prairie dogs in the heart of the American Prairie Reserve. Unlike other owls that typically fly while hunting, the burrowing owlÌs long legs allow it to spring along the ground after prey.

Montana’s prairie a true American adventure

A burrowing owl hunts for prairie dogs in the heart of the American Prairie Reserve. Unlike other owls that typically fly while hunting, the burrowing owlÌs long legs allow it to spring along the ground after prey.

July 29, 2018, 6:05am Life

Bison run faster than humans, I thought on my morning jog, as I panted down the slope. Read story

A sable antelope, born May 13, is seen at the Audubon Species Survival Center in New Orleans. About a year after moving into spacious new digs in New Orleans, African animals are doing just what officials from two zoos had hoped: being fruitful and multiplying.

It’s a girl, girl, boy, girl! Baby boom at zoo partnership

A sable antelope, born May 13, is seen at the Audubon Species Survival Center in New Orleans. About a year after moving into spacious new digs in New Orleans, African animals are doing just what officials from two zoos had hoped: being fruitful and multiplying.

July 27, 2018, 12:30pm Life

About a year after moving into spacious new digs in New Orleans, African animals are doing just what officials from two zoos had hoped when they created the forested paddocks: being fruitful and multiplying. Seven antelope have given birth, at least one more female is pregnant, and others may be. Read story

Black bears suffering with mange becoming increasingly common

July 27, 2018, 6:01am Life

From the road, Hannah Greenberg could see that the black bear’s face had gone completely bald. Hair hung off the rest of its frame in long strands, more like dreadlocks than a coat of fur. Read story

In this Oct. 19, 2017 photo provided by Colin Donihue, an anoles lizard hangs onto a pole during a simulated wind experiment in the Turks and Caicos Islands. According to a study in the Wednesday, July 25, 2018 edition of the journal Nature, lizards who survived 2017’s Hurricanes Irma and Maria had 6 to 9 percent bigger toe pads, significantly longer front limbs and smaller back limbs, compared with the population before the storms.

Researchers use leaf blower to see how lizards endure storms

In this Oct. 19, 2017 photo provided by Colin Donihue, an anoles lizard hangs onto a pole during a simulated wind experiment in the Turks and Caicos Islands. According to a study in the Wednesday, July 25, 2018 edition of the journal Nature, lizards who survived 2017’s Hurricanes Irma and Maria had 6 to 9 percent bigger toe pads, significantly longer front limbs and smaller back limbs, compared with the population before the storms.

July 27, 2018, 6:01am Life

Tropical lizards have a stick-to-itiveness in high wind that puts TV weather reporters to shame. Now we know why, thanks in part to a high-powered leaf blower. Read story

In this photo taken Tuesday, July 24, 2018, provided by the Center for Whale Research, a baby orca whale is being pushed by her mother after being born off the Canada coast near Victoria, British Columbia. The new orca died soon after being born. Ken Balcomb with the Center for Whale Research says the dead calf was seen Tuesday being pushed to the surface by her mother just a half hour after it was spotted alive. Balcomb says the mother was observed propping the newborn on her forehead and trying to keep it near the surface of the water.

New endangered Puget Sound orca dies soon after birth

In this photo taken Tuesday, July 24, 2018, provided by the Center for Whale Research, a baby orca whale is being pushed by her mother after being born off the Canada coast near Victoria, British Columbia. The new orca died soon after being born. Ken Balcomb with the Center for Whale Research says the dead calf was seen Tuesday being pushed to the surface by her mother just a half hour after it was spotted alive. Balcomb says the mother was observed propping the newborn on her forehead and trying to keep it near the surface of the water.

July 25, 2018, 12:42pm Northwest

A new orca has died soon after being born to the endangered killer whales that frequent the inland waters of Washington state. Read story

April the Giraffe at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, N.Y. April, the giraffe whose pregnancy became an internet sensation, is pregnant again. Jordon Patch of Animal Adventure Park announced the pregnancy Wednesday, July 25, on NBC’s “Today” show. Patch says the calf is due during the early part of spring around March.

Pregnant again! April the giraffe’s calf is due in March

April the Giraffe at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, N.Y. April, the giraffe whose pregnancy became an internet sensation, is pregnant again. Jordon Patch of Animal Adventure Park announced the pregnancy Wednesday, July 25, on NBC’s “Today” show. Patch says the calf is due during the early part of spring around March.

July 25, 2018, 10:31am Life

You don’t need to stick your neck out to predict that this bundle of joy is going to get some attention. Read story

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks employees Dave Fuller, from left, Chris Wesolek, and Matt Rugg release a pallid sturgeon after taking blood samples from the fish in 2014. A federal judge has backed a plan to build a dam and fish passage so that about 125 pallid sturgeon to reach upstream spawning grounds that they’ve been separated from for decades.

U.S. agencies win fight over Yellowstone dam, endangered fish

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks employees Dave Fuller, from left, Chris Wesolek, and Matt Rugg release a pallid sturgeon after taking blood samples from the fish in 2014. A federal judge has backed a plan to build a dam and fish passage so that about 125 pallid sturgeon to reach upstream spawning grounds that they’ve been separated from for decades.

July 24, 2018, 9:14pm Nation & World

A federal judge rejected claims that a long-stalled irrigation dam in Montana would doom a primitive, endangered fish species, prompting U.S. officials to say Tuesday that a contract for the project will be awarded by the end of the year. Read story