A manatee is swimming free again thanks to a fishing guide who reported the animal tangled in crab trap lines, and the Georgia and Florida wildlife experts who raced to the scene. The drama played out ...

The Motu Nui islet near Easter Island – credit, Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0. As one of the most isolated landmasses on Earth, residents of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, rely on the bounty of the ocean more ...

One of California’s most famous surfers has four legs and a tail. They call her Rippin’ Rosie. She’s a lovable 5-year-old Labrador Retriever with golden fur and almost 340,000 followers on Instagram. ...

Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in the Tanjung Putting National Park by Thomas Fuhrmann – CC BY-SA 4.0 license Fifteen years ago, conservationists began releasing rescued orangutans into a ...

Almost eight decades after she last played baseball, Maybelle Blair returned to the diamond—in a wheelchair—to inaugurate the new women’s US baseball league. It brought Blair’s uniquely American story ...

A mechanical issue started a fire in a Utah apartment building last week that sent the entire five-story structure ablaze in a matter of minutes. Residents in the Salt Lake City suburb—and their ...

97-year-old Westel Creager became determined to keep a promise he made years ago. When his great-granddaughter Haiden was going off to college, Westel told her that if she got into medical school, ...

Research from the University of Pennsylvania shows that antiviral and antibacterial chewing gums reduce the levels of three microbes known to be associated with oral cancer, paving the way for more ...

Screenshots of Secretarybirds with chick that hatched in Chester Zoo England’s Chester Zoo reported last week they successfully bred the stunning secretarybird for the first time in its 95-year ...

Microscopic view of muscle tissue deficient in dystrophin -Courtesy Binghamton University Scientists studying one of the world’s most serious inherited muscle diseases have found encouraging evidence ...

Tori and her husband, Justin Cannarelli, who own a garden center, volunteered to adopt Louie the Duck after he hatched at a Long Island elementary school. It was supposed to be temporary. And the ...

Ospreys are recovering in Britain thanks to “pioneering pairs” who prefer to nest away from the main population, according to new research. It could be key to increasing the proliferation of the ...