wildlife

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.

The Biden administration is drafting rules to govern the killing of wild birds by industry and will resume enforcement actions against companies responsible for deaths that could have been prevented.

The Biden administration says federal protections may need to be restored for gray wolves in the western U.S. after Republican-led states made it much easier to kill the predators

An 11-month-old female cougar was removed from a New York City home last week after the owner surrendered the animal, authorities announced Monday.

President Joe Biden’s administration is sticking by former President Donald Trump’s decision to lift protections for gray wolves across most of the U.S. But a top federal wildlife official on Friday told The Associated Press there is growing concern over aggressive hunting and trapping for the animals in the Great Lakes and northern Rocky Mountains

After a two-year hiatus, the Redneck Fishing Tournament has returned to the waters of the Illinois River.

The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources released footage of their “extreme” method of restocking state lakes with fish: dropping thousands of fish from an airplane.

Photos shared by the City of Burnsville, Minn., show enlarged goldfish. The city urged people not to dispose of their goldfish in lakes as they contribute to poor water quality.

Photos of enlarged goldfish found in a Minnesota lake have sparked a warning from officials.

After four months of rehabilitation work, an orphaned mountain lion cub was transported to its original habitat near Tijeras Creek Golf Course in Orange County. A hatch door was opened and, after a quick glance around, the mountain lion leaped her way back home.

One of two orphaned mountain lion cubs was released back into the wild after it was rehabilitated in San Diego County.

A herd of elephants nap together and graze in southwest China.

Cher’s rescue of an elephant held in dismal conditions is told in a new documentary.”

A beachgoer came across a rare find on his morning stroll when he saw a weird looking fish washed ashore at Newport Beach.

Corpus Christi residents have reported waves of dead fish following last week’s freezing temperatures in the region.

Wildlife biologists say a 34-year-old grizzly bear captured in southwestern Wyoming has been confirmed as the oldest on record in the Yellowstone region.

Wildlife advocates are asking a federal court to overturn a U.S. government decision that stripped Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across most of the nation.

The report is in line with a well-established trend of recovery in the bald eagle population nationally, which was critically endangered in the 1970s and 1980s because of habitat destruction and the widespread use of DDT

An important decision is expected this week on whether the monarch butterfly should receive federal designation as a threatened species.

It took days for officials to finally catch a monkey running freely through the city of Fukuoka, Japan.