wildlife

Corpus Christi residents have reported waves of dead fish following last week’s freezing temperatures in the region.

A 90-pound male mountain lion was captured in the Santa Monica Mountains by wildlife officials, who conducted a health check and fitted a GPS collar on the young cat, park officials said Tuesday.

Wildlife biologists say a 34-year-old grizzly bear captured in southwestern Wyoming has been confirmed as the oldest on record in the Yellowstone region.

Wildlife advocates are asking a federal court to overturn a U.S. government decision that stripped Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across most of the nation.

An endemic and elusive Catalina Island shrew was spotted by wildlife conservationists for the first time in more than 15 years, it was announced Wednesday.

It’s been quite a year with historic wildfires, an election for the ages and, of course, the coronavirus pandemic but despite the bustle and rollercoaster ride brought upon us by 2020, some cute stories on our furry friends and wild neighbors gave us the pause we most definitely needed.

An important decision is expected this week on whether the monarch butterfly should receive federal designation as a threatened species.

Ross is soaring with majestic birds of prey! He even befriends a Lanner Falcon named Kaito while learning all about the ancient art of falconry, a 4000-year-old sport that involves creating a special relationship with a bird of prey in order to train them to hunt. Watch as he time-travels to the Renaissance period to experience the real deal—he’s even...

It took days for officials to finally catch a monkey running freely through the city of Fukuoka, Japan.

A young bobcat that was nursed to health in the San Diego area after being badly burned in a San Bernardino County wildfire was returned to its natural habitat Tuesday for release back into the wild.

Building on a 20-year tortoise relocation effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, UCLA researchers have found that individual genetic variation was the key to a transplanted species’ survival, in research published Friday in the peer-reviewed journal Science.

The life-or-death journey made by mule deer during the second-longest big game migration in North America came down to their ability to squeeze through a fence — a discovery made by scientists using wildlife GPS tracking techniques to map animal migrations in the West in unprecedented detail.

A young bobcat is getting some much-needed rest and treatment at a San Diego County animal care center after it suffered burns and other injuries in the El Dorado Fire.

An owl is recovering in the East Bay after some quick-thinking Good Samaritans found it stuck in barbed wire.

The Humane Society of the United States has gifted the Fund for Animals Wildlife Center in Ramona to the San Diego Humane Society, the local private animal nonprofit announced Tuesday.

There are about 6,000 Cotton-Top tamarins left in the world and the species is considered critically endangered.

The San Diego Zoo has announced the latest addition of its wild family – a male pygmy hippopotamus whose successful birth was the first of its kind at the zoo in more than 30 years.

Wildlife all over the world has adapted during the pandemic to seeing fewer people. In California, endangered sea otters have likely benefited from fewer human disturbances. But as shelter-at-home restrictions begin to relax and desperation for outdoor recreation grows, sea otters could be at risk from an influx of people.

The bear was tranquilized by animal control personnel Friday morning, a few hours after it was spotted foraging for food in a Monrovia, Calif., neighborhood