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Up to $20,000 is being offered for information leading to a criminal conviction or civil penalty involving a dolphin that was found shot to death in southwest Louisiana. MORE THAN 100 DOLPHINS, THOUSANDS OF FISH FOUND DEAD AS BRAZILIAN GOVERNOR DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY Federal wildlife officials, in a news release Monday, said a juvenile bottlenose dolphin was found shot …

Many animals can glow in the dark. Fireflies famously blink on summer evenings. But most animals that light up are found in the depths of the ocean. In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow, far earlier than previously thought. “Light signaling is one of …

A 15-year-old girl from New Richmond may have broken an Ohio state record on Sunday, April 7, for the largest blue catfish, with the monster weighing in at a whopping 101.11 pounds. “He was bigger than we ever imagined,” Jaylynn Parker, a sophomore at New Richmond High School, told Fox News Digital. Parker and her family put out jug lines …

London police have contained two military horses that were seen running around loose without riders in the heart of the U.K. capital on Wednesday morning. Several other horses are still believed to be on the loose. Details remain sketchy as to what happened but British media is reporting that seven military horses initially got loose, with police working with army …

An Australian hospital urged snakebite victims to stop trying to catch the slithery culprits when seeking medical attention after one patient came in carrying a serpent in a loosely locked box. “We honestly don’t want people interacting with snakes any more than they already have,” Dr. Adam Michael, director of emergency medicine at Bundaberg Hospital near Brisbane, told the Australian …

A beloved ostrich at the Topeka Zoo & Conservation Center in Kansas has died after swallowing a staff member’s keys. The zoo announced in a social media post on Friday that the 5-year-old ostrich named Karen had reached beyond her exhibit’s fence and grabbed and swallowed the employee’s keys. Staff consulted with experts around the U.S. “to undergo surgical and …

A peacock that spent more than six months roaming a village and hopping from house to house and fence to fence — most recently squawking loudly in search of a mate — has been caught at last. Residents of Gravesend, Kent, in the U.K. had grown fond of the bird that they named Saataj. They’d been feeding and caring for …

Lake sturgeon don’t need Endangered Species Act protections, federal wildlife officials announced Monday, saying that stocking programs have helped the prehistoric fish return to areas where they had vanished. The decision ends the Arizona-based Center of Biological Diversity’s petition filed in May 2018 asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list lake sturgeon as endangered or threatened. Such listings …

Earth Day is one of the most popular and widespread nonreligious holidays in the world. Although the event was primarily based in the United States, by 2009 the coordinators for Earth Day helped gain recognition from the United Nations. Earth Day has played a key role in passing essential laws that protect wildlife and the environment, such as the Clean …

A 16-year-old boy in Australia died after being attacked by a large crocodile in the Torres Strait, authorities say. The incident occurred off the waters of Saibai Island, a relatively-remote island of around 500 people, on Thursday morning. While Saibai Island is geographically close to Papua New Guinea, it is part of the Australian state of Queensland, and is around …