Florence Pugh holds giant fish in new Vogue cover

Rare Critters

Rare wild cat discovered living on world’s tallest mountain — Mount Everest

Critter Crimes

Scotland passes bill banning fox hunting with packs of hounds

Critter Love

U.S. signs law that eliminates the need for animal testing for new drugs for humans

Critter MIA

Do you know what this rare creature is? It was found clinging to a porch in Texas

Critter Love

Comedy wildlife photographs of the year 2022

Florence Pugh holds giant fish in new Vogue cover

January 16, 2023

Actor Florence Pugh has delighted and puzzled fans with new photos of her Vogue cover including a shot of her holding a fish in…

Albania’s last “restaurant bear” rescued, bound for a new life at sanctuary in Austria

December 8, 2022

For two decades, Mark lived in a cage listlessly entertaining guests at an Albanian restaurant. He was among dozens of bears held captive by…

Moles and shrews survive winter by shrinking their brains

December 1, 2022

To survive cold weather and the need to consume food, common shrews and moles shrink their bodies including their skulls and brains by as…

Annual turkey pardon draws laughter, gobbles at White House ahead of Thanksgiving

November 22, 2022

Chocolate and Chip will live to gobble another day. They are the turkeys U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned at the White House this week…

Rangers rescue baby elephant stuck in waterhole in South Africa’s Addo Park

November 21, 2022

A plucky little elephant recently found itself “proper stuck” in a waterhole in Addo Elephant National Park, but was luckily pulled to safety by…

Puppy found abandoned in a crate on roadside finds new life as a police sniffer dog

November 15, 2022

It’s a true rags to riches story of the furry kind. A puppy dumped on the roadside in a cage has been trained as…

PSA: U.S. National Park Service warns visitors not to lick psychedelic toads to get high

November 9, 2022

It may sound absurd, but the U.S. National Park Service is reminding people not to lick — yes, lick — the Sonoran desert toad….

“Late bloomer” bison calf born in Iowa’s Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge

November 7, 2022

It’s not often bison baby announcements are made in the fall at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, but the park in Iowa unexpectently has…

Living Planet Index finds biodiversity has declined alarmingly in last 50 years.

October 13, 2022

Global wildlife populations have plummeted by 69% on average since 1970 according to a report looking at trends in global biodiversity and the health…

New York man charged with smuggling pythons in his pants across Canada-U.S. border

October 10, 2022

A 36-year-old New York man is accused of stuffing three Burmese pythons down is pants in an attempt to smuggle the reptiles into the…