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Pets & Wildlife

Jana Johnson is all smiles as she watches one of her "babies" fly into the wild during a blue butterfly release on March 18, 2023, on Los Angeles' Palos Verdes Peninsula.

She helped save one of the world’s rarest creatures from extinction — and herself along the way

Jana Johnson is all smiles as she watches one of her "babies" fly into the wild during a blue butterfly release on March 18, 2023, on Los Angeles' Palos Verdes Peninsula.

June 5, 2023, 5:41am Entertainment

Jana Johnson was a struggling grad student in 2003 when she first met the butterfly that would change her life. Read story

You might not know it, but your yard is a regular frog highway. You can help native frog species thrive by making a few simple changes to your yard.

Make a froggy haven in a Clark County yard

You might not know it, but your yard is a regular frog highway. You can help native frog species thrive by making a few simple changes to your yard.

June 3, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life

If your yard isn’t the neighborhood’s tidiest — if it has a few fallen branches, overgrown shrubs and a couple of overturned pots — you can officially stop feeling guilty. Why? Because you may be just the hero that local frogs are looking for. Read story

Emergency repairs underway at Skagit River jetty after hundreds of dead baby salmon found

June 2, 2023, 9:54am Life

McGlinn Island Jetty, SKAGIT COUNTY — Heather Spore got down on her hands and knees on the soft sand, peering through a gaping hole in a more than 80-year-old rock wall at low tide. Read story

A family of foxes hangs out May 21 in Millennium Park in Chicago. As the animals work their way into Chicago's heart, wildlife experts say the furry family, yet another example of wildlife thriving in Chicago, also offers a lesson in city ecology. (Armando L.

Chicago park now home to foxes

A family of foxes hangs out May 21 in Millennium Park in Chicago. As the animals work their way into Chicago's heart, wildlife experts say the furry family, yet another example of wildlife thriving in Chicago, also offers a lesson in city ecology. (Armando L.

June 2, 2023, 6:00am Life

Below the towering skyscrapers lining Chicago’s Millennium Park, an unlikely group is holing up in a garden: A family of foxes. Read story

Bear helps itself to bakery’s cupcakes

June 2, 2023, 6:00am Pets & Wildlife

A hungry black bear barged into the garage of a Connecticut bakery, scared several employees and helped itself to 60 cupcakes before ambling away. Read story

In this photo taken in April 2019 a beluga whale found in Arctic Norway is feeded. Norwegian authorities say that a beluga whale first spotted in Arctic Norway in 2019 with an apparent Russian-made harness and alleged to have come from a Russian military facility has been spotted off Sweden's west coast.

Norway says Beluga whale with apparent Russian-made harness swims south to Sweden

In this photo taken in April 2019 a beluga whale found in Arctic Norway is feeded. Norwegian authorities say that a beluga whale first spotted in Arctic Norway in 2019 with an apparent Russian-made harness and alleged to have come from a Russian military facility has been spotted off Sweden's west coast.

May 30, 2023, 8:11am Life

Norwegian authorities said Tuesday that a beluga whale, which was first spotted in Arctic Norway four years ago with an apparent Russian-made harness and alleged to have come from a Russian military facility, has been seen off Sweden’s coast nearly 2,000 kilometers (around 1,250 miles) to the south. Read story

Puggles, a 10-year-old potbelly pig, walks around the Blatty family's backyard in Hazel Dell.

That’s some pig: Hazel Dell family finds their Vietnamese potbellied pig Puggles is the perfect pet

Puggles, a 10-year-old potbelly pig, walks around the Blatty family's backyard in Hazel Dell.

May 30, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life

The Blatty family has owned dogs, birds, fish, a rabbit and even a rat. The pig, though — that’s the pet that catches their Hazel Dell neighbors’ attention. Read story

White goat lies in a meadow against the backdrop of the city in the summer on a sunny day. The background is blurry.

Versatile goats’ voracious appetites good for more than weed management, fire prevention

White goat lies in a meadow against the backdrop of the city in the summer on a sunny day. The background is blurry.

May 28, 2023, 6:00am Latest News

Goats have a reputation for eating everything. That can be a good thing. Read story

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colo., welcomed a pair of Amur leopard cubs last week.

Endangered Amur leopard cubs born at Colorado zoo

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colo., welcomed a pair of Amur leopard cubs last week.

May 26, 2023, 6:54am Life

Colorado Springs’s Cheyenne Mountain Zoo welcomed a pair of Amur leopard cubs May 17, adding to the population of one of the most endangered species in the world. Read story

Dotty the desert tortoise explores her enclosure in Scottsdale, Ariz., on May 3, 2023. The surprising warmth of these ancient cold-blooded creatures has made them popular pets for families with pet dander allergies and for retirees.

Tortoises are social, zippy pets

Dotty the desert tortoise explores her enclosure in Scottsdale, Ariz., on May 3, 2023. The surprising warmth of these ancient cold-blooded creatures has made them popular pets for families with pet dander allergies and for retirees.

May 26, 2023, 6:54am Life

They’re not fluffy, they don’t play fetch, and they certainly don’t roll over. But there is such a thing as a lap tortoise. Read story