Wildlife

A whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend likely died in part because it ate large volumes of fishing traps, fishing nets, plastic bags and other marine debris, scientists said Thursday, highlighting the threat to wildlife from the millions of tons of plastic that ends up in oceans every year.

The giant cane toad was discovered Thursday by park rangers in the state of Queensland.

Doorbell camera footage shows the black bear strolling up the man’s Seminole County home, and swiping a bag of 30-piece chicken nuggets and fries he had ordered from Chick-fil-A.

The Alaska State Trooper say a court services officer with the agency has died after being attacked by a muskox outside his home near Nome.

At least 13 bald eagles were likely poisoned by scavenging the carcasses of euthanized animals that were improperly disposed of at a Minnesota landfill and three of the majestic birds have died. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that state and federal wildlife officials are investigating after the eagles were found this month near the Pine Bend Landfill in the Minneapolis...

Nibi the beaver builds a dam inside her room at Newhouse Wildlife Rescue in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers had to remove about 30 feet of fencing.

Bodycam footage from the Simi Valley Police Department captured a black bear that broke into a Simi Valley home over the weekend, ate a freshly baked cake, and then ran.

The annual Florida Python Challenge invites novices to hunt invasive Burmese pythons alongside professionals and compete for cash prizes.

The misadventure happened June 23 when a mother bear knocked over a garbage can and one of her cubs stuck its head in a clear plastic jar that had spilled out

The Austin Bat Refuge in Texas takes care of “orphaned, injured and displaced bats” and nurses them back to health. “We’re kind of like a little bat hospital,” says Lee Mackenzie, who runs the refuge with his wife Diane Odegard. Greg Bledsoe takes his Family Geography Project to Austin to learn more about wild bats and the threats they...

In southern Kenya, a group of women called Team Lioness are working to protect wildlife on the Maasai land around Amboseli National Park — and, at the same time, expanding the boundaries of what is expected from Maasai women.
(By NBCLX Contributors Jake Tupman and Jack Somerville)

The bottlenose dolphin was found on March 24 on Florida’s Fort Myers Beach with an obvious wound near the right eye, officials say.

U.S. wildlife officials have reversed their previous finding that a widely used and highly toxic pesticide could jeopardize dozens of plants and animals with extinction.

Over 70 applications were made to lease part of Scotland’s seabed for wind farm developments.

An Adélie penguin, which is native to Antarctica, washed up on the coast of New Zealand on Wednesday.

A rare two-headed diamondback terrapin turtle is alive and kicking — with all six of its legs — at the Birdsey Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts after hatching two weeks ago.

The Biden administration is drafting rules to govern the killing of wild birds by industry and will resume enforcement actions against companies responsible for deaths that could have been prevented.