Animals

Eight years ago, Shane Adams lost his horse Mongo in the Utah desert

6:17am October 11, 2022

Adams was asleep in a tent when he heard wild mustangs and saw Mongo had joined the herd. Last week officers with the Bureau of Land Management found the 18-years-old stallion and brought him home.

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Encore: One community searches for a dog lost during Hurricane Ian

4:19pm October 10, 2022

by Eileen Kelley

During Hurricane Ian, a family took their dog, Baby, outside to go to the bathroom. Baby bolted and now a neighborhood is on the lookout for her — giving a community a distraction after the storm.

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A cluster of hackberry leafrollers swarms a citronella candle on a Dallas resident's patio and blankets the outdoor furniture in webbing.

Dallas residents are dealing with a nuisance. Well, many — a caterpillar outbreak

1:33pm October 08, 2022

by Jacob Wells

Cankerworms and hackberry leafrollers are feasting on foliage and leaving yards in the Dallas-Fort Worth area covered in silk. Scientists attribute the outbreak to recent heavy rains.

Rare turtles have bred 41 hatchlings at the San Diego Zoo

6:29am October 06, 2022

The Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle hatchlings are small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But once they're fully grown, the can be over three feet long.

Plastic bags are a big environmental problem. Could worms be part of the solution?

6:43am October 05, 2022

A beekeeper was cleaning wax worms out of her hives, and putting them in a plastic bag when she realized the worms were chewing through the plastic and chemically breaking it down.

LSD blotter tabs sit on top of a US quarter coin. A drug based off of psychedelic LSD appears to relieve depression and anxiety in mice, but without the hallucinogenic side effects.

These LSD-based drugs seem to help mice with anxiety and depression — without the trip

6:01am October 05, 2022

by Jon Hamilton

Scientists have made a drug based on LSD that seems to fight depression without producing a psychedelic experience.

Retired professor Dr. David Etnier (center) and a group of scientists check the state of the snail darter in the Holston River north of Knoxville, Tenn., on April 9, 2008. The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on Tuesday its official removal from the Federal List of Threatened and Endangered Wildlife.

A tiny fish that once caused an epic conservation fight is no longer under threat

9:54pm October 04, 2022

by The Associated Press

The snail darter, a tiny Southeastern fish that derailed a federal dam during an epic battle over Endangered Species Act protection in the '70s, is no longer considered imperiled, officials announced.

Fat Bear candidate 128 Grazer is approximately 17-19 years old. She has a light coat in the spring that darkens in the fall, but she keeps her distinctive fluffy blonde ears.

In Alaska's Fat Bear Week election, there's no party like a salmon party

7:14pm October 04, 2022

by Bill Chappell

If hypocrisy in politics turns you off, the election you need is in Alaska, where the candidates are voraciously out for themselves. You can vote beginning Wednesday.

Humane Society Naples CEO Sarah Baeckler (center holding crate) helps load cats aboard a plane in Naples, Fla., on Monday. The group is getting ready for "an influx of surrendered animals" from Hurricane Ian, she says.

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Hurricane Ian's havoc is forcing some Florida families to give up the family pet

11:32am October 04, 2022

by Scott Neuman

A shelter run by the Humane Society Naples is flying cats and dogs out of state to make room for a wave of new arrivals from families whose homes were destroyed and are now unable to care for a pet.

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Florida animal shelters expect an influx of dogs and cats following Hurricane Ian

5:09am October 04, 2022

by Scott Neuman

Workers at animal shelters are preparing for more surrendered pets to arrive. A planned airlift will fly some of the pets to new homes across the country.