What happens when animal control and a public works department come together to remove a massive reptile? A grapple truck gets involved. The City of Mont Belvieu in Texas recruited Public Works to remove a 12-foot-long alligator that was found in a ditch along Eagle Drive, the city’s Facebook page posted. FLORIDA OFFICERS ‘ARREST’ NUISANCE ALLIGATOR AT 104-YEAR-OLD WOMAN’S HOME …
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An 83-year-old woman has been seriously injured in Yellowstone National Park after being gored by a bison that was “defending its space,” park officials say. The tourist from Greenville, South Carolina, was targeted by the bison on June 1 near the Storm Point Trail at Yellowstone Lake in Wyoming, according to the National Park Service. “The bison, defending its space, …
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More than 31,000 Atlantic salmon raised in a Michigan fish hatchery had to be killed after failing to recover from disease, officials said Tuesday. The decision followed an unsuccessful 28-day treatment period at the Harrietta hatchery in Wexford County. It was “gut-wrenching for staff,” even if the fish were just a fraction of the millions raised in hatcheries each year, …
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A Louisiana child was found safe after being reported missing last week — along with something “fowl” in the boy’s backpack. “Storytime!” wrote the St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office in a Friday, May 31 post on its Facebook page. RARE SNAKE-LIKE FISH THAT BREATHES AIR CAUGHT IN MISSOURI FOR FOURTH TIME: ‘AGGRESSIVE PREDATORS’ “Hey folks, gather around for a wild …
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Connecticut police were investigating the killing of a 450-pound, adult male black bear on Monday morning and claims by the shooter that it was done in self-defense. The bear was killed after “reportedly feeding at an unsecured dumpster” in Canton, a community of about 10,000 people and about 13 miles northwest of Hartford, said Paul Copleman, a spokesperson for the …
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Lifeguards in Del Mar, California, which is north of San Diego, have closed beaches to swimming and surfing after a Sunday morning shark attack. A 46-year-old man was bitten by a shark on his torso, left arm and hand around 9 a.m., Del Mar authorities said in a press release. He was taken to a hospital in La Jolla with …
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Is it a fish? Is it a snake? No, it’s a snakehead fish. For only the fourth time in the state of Missouri, an angler caught a northern snakehead fish that is not native to the U.S. Fisheries biologists with the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) confirmed the catch occurred on May 25 in Wayne County, according to a recent …
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The 70-year-old founder of an underwater explorer nonprofit that documents shipwrecks in Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes died over the weekend while making a trip below the surface. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man as 70-year-old David Michael VanZandt of Lakewood, Ohio. His body was pulled from the water at East 9th Street Pier, the …
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The great cicada comeback has hit the U.S., with multiple states expecting two broods to reappear by the trillions. While cicadas swarm this season — plus leave their hard exoskeletons behind — should you be worried about your pets possibly getting hold of them? Amanda Fredal, a Georgia-based licensed veterinary technician and director of live pet care at Pet Supplies …
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Artificial intelligence (AI) will make it easier to determine the best methods of protecting endangered wildlife in the coming years, with current methods making little use of technology in meaningful ways, an expert told Fox News Digital. “Over time, if you feed that data into an AI engine, you will get better and better information modeling or warnings and maybe …
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