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Wildlife and the animals in the news, followed through official trackers and the people who watch them daily.
Colorado has confirmed a record 10 bear attacks in 2026. What happened near South Fork and in Durango, and CPW’s advice for campers and homeowners.
Researchers describe a new wild cat, Leopardus tilcayo, in Bolivia and find the tiger cat is really five species, each needing its own assessment.
A new FWS rule and internal memo narrow the Endangered Species Act’s “take” definition, exempting most accidental harm to wildlife, including whale strikes.
A 41-year-old Novi, Michigan, man was bitten while trying to photograph an eastern massasauga rattlesnake at a boat launch in Proud Lake Recreation Area
Charter boats out of Chatham now head offshore up to three times a day in season, loaded with visitors hoping to see a great white shark.
A rabies scare that started with four baby goats at a small North Carolina petting-zoo business has led health departments to evaluate hundreds of people across
A mother black bear and her cubs spent hours trapped inside a covered water storage tank near La Verne, California, on Saturday, August 29, 2026, before California
A resident in southern Madison County, Indiana, told the sheriff’s office he watched an adult lioness and a cub cross his property Thursday morning, August 27
A roughly 250-pound black bear climbed into an unlocked, parked car in central Colorado Springs and couldn’t get back out.
Jackie, the bald eagle whose nest at Big Bear Lake, California, has been watched by a worldwide audience on a livestream since 2015, died in the early hours
Hancock County School District in Sparta, Georgia, about 100 miles southeast of Atlanta, kept all three of its schools – an elementary, a middle and a high school
Jackie, the bald eagle who has spent years captivating fans of a livestreamed nest near Big Bear Lake, California, was doing better.