Animals and Wildlife

A police department in Colorado got a bizarre call that led them to a “high-speed chase” of a fugitive on Thursday morning: A runaway pet Kangaroo.

The Burmese pythons have such large gapes because their lower jawbones are not fused at the front, and their skin is especially elastic.

A loggerhead sea turtle is back in the ocean following months of rehabilitation.

The bear known as Grizzly 399 was killed Tuesday evening after being hit by a car in Wyoming, according to officials.

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy said they haven’t yet been able to identify a cause of death for the great white shark, but shared its name.

Officials began an operation in Hollywood to save a deer that appears to have a bone stuck in its mouth and throat.

Police shared photos of a great white shark that washed ashore in Orleans, Massachusetts, that look like they come right out of “Jaws.” (Note: the photos may be too graphic for some viewers.)

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Editor’s note: Some readers might find the images included in this story disturbing. Orleans police shared three photos of the shark on Facebook on Tuesday, showing the dead shark on the back of a flatbed truck. “Not one of our typical calls for service,” the department said. “Not is it one for our local duty tow, Nauset Recovery. But,...

A Washington state woman called 911 after her home was swarmed by masked intruders, aka scores of hungry raccoons.

Rat birth control is a subject everyone in Boston seems to have an opinion on. A pilot program was conducted in Jamaica Plain’s Hyde Square, and some city councilors want that program to be expanded. “Some neighbors have said that they’ve seen a decrease, others have said that they’ve seen an increase,” said Boston City Council President Ruthzee Louijeune....

City councilors in Boston say they are encouraged by a pilot program to use contraceptives to limit the rodent population.

In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday by defeating the male behemoth that killed her cub this summer.

Boston City Council said no to rat birth control after a pilot program showed more complaints of rats than the year before.

A 74-year-old Colorado man was injured in his home by a black bear after the animal and its three cubs opened a partially cracked sliding glass door, authorities said.

Gov. Maura Healey issued a permit on Thursday for Nibi to become an educational animal.

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It turns out a viral video of Nibi the beaver building a dam helps explain why Massachusetts’ governor is letting her stay at Newhouse Wildlife Rescue.

The spotted lanternfly continues to pop up in Massachusetts.

More than a dozen tigers have died after contracting bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam.

Nibi the beaver has a forever home after Gov. Maura Healey allowed her to stay at Newhouse Wildlife Rescue as an educational animal.

Ending days of speculation over Nibi the beaver’s looming eviction, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has intervened in Newhouse Wildlife Rescue’s push to keep the animal, granting her a permit to be used for educational purposes that keeps her with her adopted family....

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