4+ hour, 14+ min ago   (420+ words) Numbers of rare butterfly eggs have skyrocketed in South Wales after landowners let their hedgerows grow wild. Volunteers for the UK nonprofit Butterfly Conservation have counted record tallies of Brown Hairstreak eggs this winter around the Welsh county of Carmarthenshire....

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (377+ words) While searching for their cubs, the females of the world's third-largest feline will make a sound that's strikingly similar to what you've heard your own cat make. Weighing in excess of 300 lbs., the jaguar is a ferocious predator that can…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (242+ words) Over last weekend, a Kentucky farming family welcomed a new calf into a frigid world of single digit temperatures, and quickly realized it wasn't going to last the night. On the last Saturday in January, Sorrell and her husband Tanner…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (492+ words) Polar bears are in better physical health than they were 25 years ago, despite the decrease in sea ice, reveals new research. The well-being of the iconic white mammals living around the Norwegian island of Svalbard has improved in the face…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (278+ words) In southeast Missouri, the nonprofit Animal Rescue Corps helped save a pregnant female dog along with 17 others from the snow and freezing temperatures that battered so much of the United States. Safe and warm at their rescue center outside Nashville,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (357+ words) As the Critically-Endangered North Atlantic right whale continues its long, slow journey back from the brink of extinction, there have been many joyful milestones worth celebrating. With the year still so young, there's already been another: a record-number of sightings…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (432+ words) Birdwatchers can't believe what's been appearing through their binoculars on a small landholding in West Sussex, England, where the nation's premier rewilding project continues to compound on its already staggering achievements. The Knepp Estate has increased the number of breeding…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (261+ words) It's always a bit of a struggle to walk through an animal shelter, past all those pairs of eyes watching you from behind bars, knowing you can't take more than a couple home with you. At Bide Awhile Animal Shelter…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (508+ words) This is the American kestrel; a sight to behold. Sporting a back emblazoned with pheasant rust and bars of black, supporting wings of battleship grey tipped with white dots like a moth's, and streaks of murderous black down its eyes,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (405+ words) A herd of 6 American bison3 males and 3 femaleshave been released onto native Illinois prairie. There, to the sound of drumming, songs, and cheers, they began to acclimate to their new surroundingssurroundings that had missed them for 200 years. A large crowd of…...