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A female right whale swims at the surface of the water with her calf a few miles off the Georgia coast in 2009. This year’s winter calving season for critically endangered right whales is ending without a single newborn being spotted off the southeast U.S. coast. That is something that hasn’t happened in 30 years. Researchers have been looking since December for newborn right whales off the coasts of Georgia and Florida. That’s where pregnant whales typically give birth each winter. Survey flights wrap up Saturday.

No new babies for endangered whales

A female right whale swims at the surface of the water with her calf a few miles off the Georgia coast in 2009. This year’s winter calving season for critically endangered right whales is ending without a single newborn being spotted off the southeast U.S. coast. That is something that hasn’t happened in 30 years. Researchers have been looking since December for newborn right whales off the coasts of Georgia and Florida. That’s where pregnant whales typically give birth each winter. Survey flights wrap up Saturday.

March 27, 2018, 6:00am Nation & World

The winter calving season for critically endangered right whales is ending without a single newborn being spotted off the southeast U.S. coast, a reproductive drought unseen for three decades that experts say brings the rare species a perilous step closer to extinction. Read story

This Monday, March 26, 2018 aerial image made from video provided by KABC-7 shows a wildlife official checking on the situation of a mountain lion behind a residential house in Azusa, Calif. on Monday, March 26, 2018. The mountain lion roamed through backyards in a neighborhood outside Los Angeles before wildlife officers tranquilized it.

Cat-and-mouse game: Mountain lion roams California backyards

This Monday, March 26, 2018 aerial image made from video provided by KABC-7 shows a wildlife official checking on the situation of a mountain lion behind a residential house in Azusa, Calif. on Monday, March 26, 2018. The mountain lion roamed through backyards in a neighborhood outside Los Angeles before wildlife officers tranquilized it.

March 26, 2018, 12:43pm Life

A mountain lion roamed through backyards in a neighborhood outside Los Angeles before wildlife officers tranquilized it. Read story

Scores of neglected horses seized from Oregon property

March 26, 2018, 9:33am Northwest

Sheriff’s deputies and volunteers seized 83 horses from a property in Central Oregon. Read story

Spike arrived at Washington’s National Zoo after a 900-mile overnight road trip from Busch Gardens, in Tampa, where he had lived since 2014. MUST CREDIT: Smithsonian National Zoo.

National Zoo gets a bull elephant named Spike

Spike arrived at Washington’s National Zoo after a 900-mile overnight road trip from Busch Gardens, in Tampa, where he had lived since 2014. MUST CREDIT: Smithsonian National Zoo.

March 23, 2018, 10:54am Life

WASHINGTON -- He stands 9 feet tall, weighs 6 1/2 tons, and his nickname is Spike. Read story

True retriever: Dog plucks flailing man from river

March 23, 2018, 10:23am Life

OKATIE, S.C. -- Forget sticks: A 7-year-old yellow Labrador retriever leaped into a South Carolina river and fetched a man whose boat had capsized. Read story

FILE - In this Friday, March 2, 2018 file photo, keeper Zachariah Mutai attends to Fatu, one of only two female northern white rhinos left in the world, in the pen where she is kept for observation, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia county in Kenya. According to four new United Nations scientific reports on biodiversity released on Friday, March 23, 2018, Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a dramatic rate.

UN reports see a lonelier planet with fewer plants, animals

FILE - In this Friday, March 2, 2018 file photo, keeper Zachariah Mutai attends to Fatu, one of only two female northern white rhinos left in the world, in the pen where she is kept for observation, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia county in Kenya. According to four new United Nations scientific reports on biodiversity released on Friday, March 23, 2018, Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a dramatic rate.

March 23, 2018, 9:24am Life

Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a dramatic rate, according to four new United Nations scientific reports on biodiversity. Read story

Javier Mercado, 16, plays with his dog Rex who was shot three times while protecting Javier during a home invasion in Des Moines, Iowa. Javier is seeing a psychologist, he and his parents have moved out of their home, and Rex now acts jittery. A GoFundMe raised $62,221 of $10,000 goal to pay for the dog’s surgery. Ellen M.

Dog takes bullets for best friend

Javier Mercado, 16, plays with his dog Rex who was shot three times while protecting Javier during a home invasion in Des Moines, Iowa. Javier is seeing a psychologist, he and his parents have moved out of their home, and Rex now acts jittery. A GoFundMe raised $62,221 of $10,000 goal to pay for the dog’s surgery. Ellen M.

March 23, 2018, 6:04am Pets & Wildlife

You could say that Rex the Dog, the hero German shepherd who on Feb. 21 took at least two bullets protecting his 16-year-old master, has a few flaws. Read story

Two photos taken on March 25, 2017, left, and Nov. 23, 2017, right, show Bridget, a lioness, who has grown a mane. The zoo says a blood sample has detected the reason why one of its African lionesses has grown a mane.

Zoo solves mystery of lioness’s new mane

Two photos taken on March 25, 2017, left, and Nov. 23, 2017, right, show Bridget, a lioness, who has grown a mane. The zoo says a blood sample has detected the reason why one of its African lionesses has grown a mane.

March 23, 2018, 6:03am Pets & Wildlife

The mane that Bridget the lioness mysteriously started growing in 2017 looked more like a scruffy beard compared to the wild blowouts sported by the kings of the jungle. Read story

After outcry, federal spending bill spares wild horses, burros

March 22, 2018, 5:43pm Nation & World

Among the winners in a $1.3 trillion spending bill agreed to by congressional leaders on Thursday: wild horses. Read story

A Vampire Bat drinks bovine blood in the Criaturas de la Noche (Creatures of the Night) Bat House, the Audubon Zoo’s new night house in New Orleans. The various species are all from Central and South America, and the building’s interior simulates an abandoned warehouse set up to protect Mayan artifacts during a dig.

Audubon Zoo’s newest building turns day to night

A Vampire Bat drinks bovine blood in the Criaturas de la Noche (Creatures of the Night) Bat House, the Audubon Zoo’s new night house in New Orleans. The various species are all from Central and South America, and the building’s interior simulates an abandoned warehouse set up to protect Mayan artifacts during a dig.

March 21, 2018, 9:30am Life

It’s daylight outside, but with indoor lights simulating a full moon, hundreds of bats flap back and forth. On a nearby wall, what appears to be a talking stone face provides bat fun facts. Read story