Wildlife

Forty-one dolphins were rescued and 13 died in a recent week on Cape Cod, according to a local animal rescue group, which said the intense workload highlights an extraordinary year of strandings.

A pair of dolphins died in a series of strandings in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, this weekend, while a dozen other dolphins were saved on Cape Cod, wildlife rescuers said Monday.

Animal welfare workers rescued 10 dolphins across five Cape Cod towns after the animals were stranded Saturday. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said they got the first call for a stranded dolphin on Ellis Landing Beach in Brewster around 6:30 a.m. By noon, the team had responded to eight strandings – including on Sea Stree Beach in Dennis,...

Wildlife advocates are sounding the alarm once again about rodenticide, poison used to control rat populations, after sick foxes were found at a mall in Leominster, Massachusetts.

“Sharktober” is on in Massachusetts and researchers are keeping busy. A 12-foot shark was spotted off the coast of Chatham earlier this month, according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy. Dr. Greg Skomal and his team were working in some rough surf off the coast of Chatham when they spotted it. The goal is to record information and images to ID...

Bears come and go in Sierra Madre, but this bear shows no signs of leaving after moving into the crawlspace under a couple’s home.

A young girl was attacked in Montana by a black bear that has since been euthanized, authorities said.

Sharks have been spotted up and down the coast of Massachusetts over the last few days, including a group of great whites who were filmed feasting on a whale carcass about six miles off the coast of Scituate. People have reported both great white and basking shark sightings on the north and south shores in recent days – two species…

Swimming is restricted at the beach in Duxbury, Massachusetts, Friday after lifeguards reported a possible shark sighting. Town officials posted on social media around noon that the potential sighting was at the town’s residential beach. The harbormaster will investigate the area. Swimming will be restricted for one hour or until the harbormaster gives an all clear. Shark sightings have...

Officials say an 83-year-old woman was gored and seriously injured by a bison in Yellowstone National Park.

A Houston police officer shot and killed an alligator after it was found with the remains of a woman inside its mouth, officials said in a statement.

Police in Lincoln, Massachusetts, are warning residents to take precautions after a black bear was spotted this week. The animal bear was sighted several times in the area north of Trapelo Road, in the area of Lexington, Page and Lincoln roads. Residents are urged to bring in any food and trash, and to use caution with pets or when exercising…

Video from a Monrovia, California, homeowner captured a mama bear dive into a backyard pool as her two curious but cautious cubs watched.

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

Massachusetts’ black bear population is healthy and thriving according to wildlife experts. “We’re kind of still experiencing the long-term expansion of our bear population from our remnant population in the Berkshires that has slowly grown and expanded to much of the state now,” said Dave Wattles of MassWildlife. Gov. Maura Healey was in western Massachusetts Friday with her family...

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.