Award-winning documentary Sled Dogs hits the small screen

Critter Crimes

Six rangers murdered while protecting Virunga National Park and its endangered gorillas

Critter Crimes

Oh, the inhu-manatee! Someone etched the word Trump on a FLA manatee.

Critters vs Humans vs Critters

When Squirrels Attack! They’re on a rampage in New York and packing knives in Toronto

Rare Critters

Two gorillas at San Diego Zoo Safari Park have COVID-19

Critter MIA

Deer collared by plastic bird feeder rescued in Colorado

Award-winning documentary Sled Dogs hits the small screen

January 12, 2021

Director Fern Levitt brought Sled Dogs to the film festival circuit in 2016 both wowing and shocking audiences. Now the documentary, which took home…

Baby news! Chick hatched to same-sex penguin parents at Indianapolis Zoo

January 9, 2021

Here’s more proof love has no boundaries. A same-sex penguin couple welcomed their first chick with open wings — and warm hearts — at…

Rockefeller the Christmas tree owl has been set free

November 28, 2020

Call it a Thanksgiving week freedom flight. Rockefeller is back in the wild. You remember Rockefeller. The saw-whet owl wound up at Rockefeller Center…

Caught on Video: Cougar follows Utah man for more than 6 minutes

October 12, 2020

For six very long and frightening minutes, a jogger was followed by a cougar in Utah. And that jogger, Kyle Burgess, filmed the entire…

Pandemic Pooches: Helsinki Airport employs COVID-19 sniffing dogs

September 24, 2020

Move over dogs that detect drugs, bombs and all manner of contraband being smuggled through airports. Finland has brought in specially trained pandemic pooches…

Mountain lion baby boom in California stuns researchers

September 9, 2020

Biologists have counted 13 mountain lion kittens born this spring and summer to five different mothers in the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills,…

Rescued fox kits and foster mother making their way back to the wild in Manitoba

August 27, 2020

Each fox arrived with a tragic story. Slowly, Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre in Manitoba nursed three kits and an adult female back to health…

Once missing, now found, red panda at Columbus Zoo is safe and sound

July 24, 2020

For 24 hours, maybe longer, red panda Kora was on the lam. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said the naturally shy, nocturnal animal wasn’t…

Protesters carry caribou heart to interrupt campaign event in Alaska

July 14, 2020

Protesters in Alaska carried a caribou heart and banners to interrupt campaign event for a U.S. senator in Alaska to protest his “heartlessness.” The…

Eight cows shot to death after wandering into an army firing range

July 14, 2020

Eight cows have been killed after wandering into the line of fire at an Army training range in the UK despite an earlier check…