Animals

An elephant is hoisted into a transport vehicle at the Liwonde National Park in southern Malawi on Sunday.

World News

How do you move 250 elephants to their new home? Very carefully

2:47pm July 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

One by one, the elephants are being sedated and moved from Malawi's overcrowded Liwonde National Park to the much larger Kasungu park 236 miles away in the country's north.

Lost beagle returns home with a third prize ribbon in a dog show

7:09am July 14, 2022

Bonnie, a beagle in England got lost and was found by a man driving in a dog show. He picked her up and decided to enter her and she won third place.

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These canines are some of the nearly 500 beagles that Homeward Trails Animal Rescue collected earlier this year from an Envigo research facility in Virginia. Now Homeward Trails is taking in additional beagles from Envigo, which bred the dogs for pharmace

Animal rescue groups across the U.S. band together to rescue 4,000 beagles

5:30am July 14, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

A federal judge ordered thousands of dogs to be rehomed from a Virginia research facility after several inspections revealed poor conditions. Animal rescue groups are working to do just that.

Rowdy the cat is shown here after being captured on Wednesday at Logan Airport in Boston. The cat escaped her cage as her family was returning to the U.S. after an Army deployment to Germany.

National

Rowdy the runaway cat is caught after weeks on the lam at Boston's airport

2:25pm July 13, 2022

by The Associated Press

The 4-year-old black cat with green eyes escaped her cage on June 24. She eluded airport and airline personnel, animal experts and safe-release traps until Wednesday.

Environment

Sharks are making a comeback in the waters of Long Island

5:00am July 13, 2022

Shark sightings off the coast of Long Island have spiked in recent years. Researchers say many species of shark are thriving because of rebounding populations of the fish they eat and warmer water.

Sea lions chase away California beachgoers

7:08am July 11, 2022

Two sleeping sea lions showed beachgoers who's boss when they got too close and woke them from their beauty sleep.

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A green crab caught off the coast of New Hampshire.

Environment

A distillery is fighting invasive crabs by turning them into whiskey

5:00am July 11, 2022

by Kai McNamee

Invasive green crabs are destroying marine ecosystems in the United States. A New Hampshire distillery is making crab-flavored whiskey to take them on.

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National

Pasco Country, Fl., is under quarantine ... from the world's most damaging snails

9:12am July 10, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

Giant African land snails have once more invaded Florida. They're big and hungry — at least compared to other snails. So Pasco County, north of Tampa, is undertaking measures to control their spread.

Ted Kubacki gets a lick from the family golden retriever, Lulu, outside their house after being reunited in Sitka, Alaska, on Thursday. The elderly, blind dog who had been missing three weeks, was found on Tuesday by a construction crew. Behind Kubacki is

National

A blind golden retriever missing for weeks is found after its family gave up hope

2:39pm July 08, 2022

by The Associated Press

A construction crew in Alaska found the dog named Lulu in salmonberry bushes after first confusing her for a bear. The pet, which had lost more than 20 pounds, is being nursed back to health at home.

National

Florida is trying to eradicate the giant African land snail, again

5:06pm July 07, 2022

by Jessica Meszaros

Florida plans to eradicate the giant African land snail, again. The recent discovery of a population of the invasive snail, which carries a disease-causing parasite, has one county under quarantine.