Caribou have quietly gone extinct in the Lower 48
Officially, predation by wolves and mountain lions were the main cause of the collapse of the Selkirk herd in Washington, Idaho and British Columbia. But the trouble started with humans.
TSA opts for a friendlier look with floppy-eared sniffer dogs
This doggy development made a splash on social media, where some observers welcomed it but others called it “canine racism.”
America’s fattest bear has been crowned in Alaska
A salmon-gorging bear known as 409 Beadnose has won a battle of the bulge that has played out all summer at Katmai National Park and Preserve.
Science shows how Moby Dick could totally have sunk that whaling ship
It took 165 years for an international team of scientists to finally probe this burning question: Would a sperm whale actually use its massive noggin as a battering ram to down a whaling ship five times the animal's size?
These undercover robot animals are helping in the hunt for poachers
Across the nation, a small army of deer, elk, bear, turkey, fox and wolf dummies has been deployed to catch people who hunt in the wrong place, in the wrong season or otherwise illegally.