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Como Zoo ships 3,000 endangered tadpoles for release into native habitat
4+ hour, 52+ min ago (353+ words) Como Zoo this summer raised and shipped nearly 3,000 Wyoming toad tadpoles to Laramie, Wyo., to be released into protected habitat. It’s part of a nationwide project to help with the recovery of one of the most critically endangered amphibians in…...
Minnesota DNR’s dog teams help protect resources
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1024+ words) In late June 2025, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and officers with the Red Lake Tribal Department of Public Safety went on a manhunt, searching for a suspect in a homicide that took place on the evening of June…...
Virus-infected bunnies — ‘Frankenstein rabbits’ — showing up in St. Paul
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (574+ words) Despite Hollywood takes on the zombie apocalypse and the popularity of streaming hits like “The Last of Us,” there’s no obvious signs in Minnesota that the end of the world as we know it is upon us — unless, of course,…...
Bred for biomedical research, these beagles are now sniffing out life as Minnesota family pets
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1863+ words) Hanna Bartley’s parents had an important deadline to make recently. The 10-year-old wanted a dog before she turned 11 in October. On Memorial Day, four months before Hanna’s birthday, that deadline was met. “He is your dog now,” Jenae Nelson, the…...
Como Zoo, awaiting corpse flower bloom, evacuates due to bomb threat
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (249+ words) After Como Park Zoo & Conservatory received a bomb threat Saturday, the facility was evacuated. More than 6,000 visitors were at the zoo/conservatory between 10 a.m. and 1:50 p.m., according to spokesman Matt Reinartz. Evacuations began about 1:50 p.m. during the potential bloom of the corpse flower,…...
Venice’s growing flamingo population finds refuge in recovering wetlands
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (790+ words) But the pale pink birds — called “fenicotteri” in Italian — are now flocking to Venice in record numbers, as ecological efforts to restore damaged wetlands could help expand their habitat and possibly induce them to nest in the lagoon. Flamingos — which…...
St. Paul Animal Services posted a euthanasia list. Rescue groups stepped in to help.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1312+ words) Rachel Eason recently saw an urgent request on Facebook that stopped her from scrolling. “I saw their little faces, and I could not stomach the thought of these poor pets being put down in 24 hours,” she said. “It just broke…...
Bald eagle hatchlings spotted in a Chicago park may be the city’s first for more than a century
2+ mon, 2+ hour ago (380+ words) By LAURA BARGFIELD and TODD RICHMOND Chicago Park District officials announced last week that bird-watchers observed nesting activity starting in February in Park 597 along the Calumet River on the city’s Southeast Side. The first eaglet was spotted in the nest…...
A kitten survives a tornado and his tiny meows bring rescue
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (16+ words) Storm chaser Ashton Lemley heard a kitten meowing in the rubble and dug it out, uninjured....
1,500 beagles will get new lives after release from research facility
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (133+ words) The animal groups have set up a staging area with play yards in Wisconsin, where the dogs are being vaccinated, microchipped, spayed or neutered and prepared for transport....