Animals

Black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks, can carry Lyme disease.

Lyme Disease Is On The Rise Again. Here's How To Prevent It

11:06am May 07, 2018

by Allison Aubrey

The tick-borne illness is spreading north and south — about 300,000 U.S. cases a year. As scientists work on better diagnostic tests and surveillance tools, you can take steps to cut your risk.

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Bees Escape Boxes While North Carolina Man Lunches

6:22am May 07, 2018

After stopping for lunch, the man returned to his truck to find the thousands of bees he had just bought were flying around inside the truck's cab. He drove home like that and didn't get stung once.

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National

Payo, The 'Terrorist' Rooster

8:28am May 06, 2018

In Miami, a rooster was saved from a Santeria ceremony, and became a beloved pet. But to the neighbors, Payo is just the neighborhood bully.

A gray wolf in Jamtland County, Sweden. A wealthy landowner in Scotland is hoping to bring wolves from Sweden to the Scottish Highlands to thin the herd of red deer.

Landowner Aims To Bring Wolves Back To Scotland, Centuries After They Were Wiped Out

11:12pm May 03, 2018

by Peter Kenyon

The proposal to reintroduce wolves to the Scottish Highlands is controversial, just like the Yellowstone project it's modeled after.

A kangaroo looks on from the side of a fairway as players play practice rounds ahead of the 2018 ISPS HANDA World Super 6 at Lake Karrinyup Country Club in February.

Science

Australian Politician Warns Tourists: Don't Feed The Kangaroos

9:38am May 03, 2018

by Scott Neuman

A member of the New South Wales Parliament is calling for warning signs at a hospital that has become a hot spot for tourists wanting kangaroo selfies after several attacks there.

Audible The Race Horse Attracts The Attention Of Audible.Com

6:59am May 03, 2018

The company decided to sponsor the horse, and Audible's Audible is a favorite in this weekend's Kentucky Derby.

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A CT-scan image of the skull of an ancient bird shows how one of the earliest bird beaks worked as a pincer, in the way beaks of modern birds do, but also had teeth left over from dinosaur ancestors. The animal, called Ichthyornis, lived around 100 millio

How Did Birds Lose Their Teeth And Get Their Beaks? Study Offers Clues

5:14pm May 02, 2018

by Rebecca Hersher

Modern birds are dinosaurs without toothy jaws, and with bigger brains. Newly published research fills in some of the missing links in their evolution.

Science

World's Oldest Spider Dies At 43

5:20pm May 01, 2018

Australian scientists have reported that a spider — assumed to be the world's oldest — has died at 43, outliving its nearest rival by 15 years. The arachnid is believed to have survived for so long by sticking to one protected burrow its entire life and expending minimal energy.

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The original location of Wilcox Family Farms, an egg farm, is in the shadow of Mount Rainier.

This Is What That 'Salmon-Safe' Label Says About Your Wine Or Eggs

2:47pm May 01, 2018

by Eilis O'Neill

Many consumers don't yet understand the label, but grocery stores are now buying from "salmon-safe" farms, which help protect fish by banning pesticides and keeping manure out of the land's waterways.

Judges with London's Natural History Museum, which administers the Wildlife Photographer of the Year prize, determined that Marcio Cabral had faked The Night Raider with a taxidermy anteater — a charge he denies.

Arts

The Wrong Stuff: Prize-Winning Wildlife Photographer Accused Of Using Taxidermy

5:24pm April 27, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

Marcio Cabral's The Night Raider won him honors as a 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year — but judges disqualified the photo Friday, saying the raider in question, an anteater, was really stuffed.