Wildlife

“We have had several calls about a noise in the air that sounds like a siren, or a whine, or a roar,” the Newberry County Sheriff’s Office said. “The sound is cicadas.”

Cicadas are clearly king when it comes to peeing, urinating two to three times stronger and faster than elephants and humans.

A headless robot about the size of a labrador retriever will be camouflaged as a coyote or fox to ward off migratory birds and other wildlife at Alaska’s second largest airport.

A wildlife center in Richmond, Virginia, is going the extra mile for a young fox that was found alone in an alleyway.

A bald eagle was rescued from the grill of a vehicle in Maryland on Saturday.

A bald eagle and a driver accidentally collided along Route 4 in Calvert County.

Rare basking sharks made for an impressive display when they were spotted off Ventura’s coast.

A new United Nations report says nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline.

A Brazilian woman was arrested on charges of wildlife trafficking after police in Colombia discovered 130 poisonous frogs in her luggage.

The Lord Howe Island stick insect was thought to be extinct for many years until several of the species were discovered on a nearby ‘sea stack’ in 2001.

Australia’s mutton glut has sent prices tumbling, and some farmers are compelled to give their sheep away to save costs instead of rearing them on-farm.

The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology recently acquired tens of thousands of reptile and amphibian specimens, including many snakes.

The 61-year-old retired firefighter rescued six baby possums after spotting their mother on the road.

Preventing dengue fever has long meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now, scientists are promoting a potentially more effective way to control the disease with the help of mosquitoes.

Rainstorms battering southern China have killed at least seven people and allowed dozens of crocodiles to escape from a farm.

Over 25 years, the red wolf went from being declared extinct in the wild to becoming hailed as an Endangered Species Act success story. But the only wolf species unique to the United States is once again at the brink.

In a bizarre series of events, a routine lawn-mowing chore turned into a terrifying ordeal for a woman in Silsbee, Texas, after she was attacked by a snake and a hawk at the same time.

A Montana man shot and killed a black bear he encountered in his living room after waking up to the sound of a barking dog in the middle of the night.

An 8-year-old camper is now in stable condition after surviving a cougar attack at Olympic National Park in Washington state on Saturday, officials said.

Nearly 100 pilot whales have stranded themselves on a beach in western Australia, and about half had died by Wednesday morning, despite the efforts of wildlife experts and volunteers to save them.