2+ hour, 3+ min ago  (317+ words) The news cycle is pretty bleak right now, so here's a hopeful story about the cutest little owl you'll ever see. A saw-whet owl, found with two broken bones in one of its wings last week in a Medford driveway,…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (800+ words) Sheida Soleimani expected the historic blizzard would bring a few ailing birds to her wildlife rehabilitation center in Rhode Island, Congress of the Birds. But certainly not dozens upon dozens of them. "Never in my wildest dreams did I think…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (951+ words) Scientists following humpback whales once brought to the brink of extinction in the South Pacific made a fascinating discovery: Older males were more likely to become fathers and younger males were less likely to do so. Researchers reviewed nearly two…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (596+ words) I call him Dexter, though I'm not at all certain that Dexter is a "he." It's tough to tell the sex of a feral cat when five feet is about the closest it will allow you to get to it....

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (208+ words) A bumper berry harvest has New Zealand's weird flightless parrot in a rare mood for romance'The Boston Globe A bumper berry harvest has New Zealand's weird flightless parrot in a rare mood for romance WELLINGTON, New Zealand " The world's only…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (814+ words) What's it like to have millions of fans but struggle to make friends? For Punch, a 7-month-old macaque, fame and loneliness have collided, leaving the world watching as he clings to a stuffed orangutan toy from Ikea. Punch was abandoned…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (572+ words) When the 33-year-old Atlantic harbor seal plays fetch with the rubber duck in his habitat built to mimic the region's rocky shore, he's practicing memory, problem-solving and focus " skills trainers say are essential to keeping animals in human care mentally…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (311+ words) The rules protect the North Atlantic right whale, which numbers less than 400 and lives off the East Coast. The giant animals are protected by a vessel speed rule that requires large ships to slow down at certain times to avoid…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago  (996+ words) A lumbering creature, older than the dinosaurs, has long been the source of a medical miracle. Scientists rely on the bright-blue blood of horseshoe crabs to test vaccines and other medical products for deadly contamination. Massachusetts regulators are weighing a…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (183+ words) Lala, an abandoned dog who survived six days in a dangerous snowstorm last month has been adopted, Needham police said Thursday. The wire-haired terrier mix, now is part of "an incredibly loving family," police wrote on Facebook. "[She] is now…...