ANIMALS

Off the coast of Mexico, scientists have observed a pod of killer whales adapting new skills to help them hunt these docile giants of the sea.

In April, a group of people in Asheville, North Carolina, were filmed pulling the cub from a tree to pose with it for photos, at one point dropping the frightened animal.

The New Hampshire SPCA is overwhelmed by the surrender of hundreds of rodents: “They’re everywhere.”

A camera in Minnesota will follow a pair of bald eagles as they make their nest and raise chicks. A previous eagle pair’s nest collapsed in a storm in 2023.

The frozen cub was about 3 weeks old with brown fur and broad paws for walking on snow. The first of its kind study showed “significant differences” to a baby lion.

In addition to the spiders, the South Korean traveler also had 110 centipedes and nine bullet ants in containers taped to his body, Peruvian authorities said.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) has said he pushed for a tiger to appear before LSU’s football game against Alabama, resuming a school tradition.

“She’s very young and deserved a lot better than what she’d been through,” Dylan McCay said.

A Tennessee couple says the district is failing to accommodate their 9-year-old son’s service dog, which helps detect his seizures.

A pair of papers in the journal Nature shows how plankton are struggling to survive in warming seas.

The emperor penguin was found on an Australian beach near the coastal town of Denmark, more than 2,200 miles from its Antarctic habitat.

A newborn siamang at ZooTampa has brought hope for survival of the endangered ape species.

Police say residents of Yemassee, South Carolina, should keep their doors and windows locked until the primates are found.

The dogs, one deaf and the other skittish, were the shelter’s longest residents.

Australia’s koala population is endangered but efforts to create a new sanctuary are contentious, with environmentalists and the forestry industry at loggerheads.

Jessica Long and her daughter sued Shasta County, California, officials in 2022 after sheriff’s deputies seized the girl’s goat, Cedar, who was later killed.

Negotiators at a U.N. conference in Colombia agreed to launch a fund for companies that make money from nature to give a small share of it to host countries.

Animal shelters and rescues are flooded, destroyed and overcrowded after Hurricanes Helene and Milton struck the Southeast.