A humpback whale named Pop Tart -- the calf of famed Salish Sea whale Big Mama -- was spotted entangled in more than 30 meters of fishing rope off Victoria, BC this past July. She vanished for days at a time as whale-watching crews from both Canada and Washington state searched through fog
Vanessa Antonino lost her chihuahua, Flor, twelve years ago in Chicago. This week, a storm just over the state line in Gary, Indiana turned up a scared, wandering dog -- and an outdated microchip that a volunteer group refused to give up on.
A lion named Layish spent four years confined to a traveling circus trailer in France. This spring, rescuers flew him to a sanctuary in South Africa -- and for the first time in his life, he set foot on open ground that wasn't a cage.
A scientist snorkeling a shrinking pool on a California creek found baby salmon that shouldn't have been possible — proof that wild coho had spawned naturally in the upper Russian River for the first time in 34 years.
A normally quiet pet goose named Goosey started honking like never before in the middle of the night — waking his family in time to stop a barn fire and save about 60 chickens and turkeys inside.
Known only from ancient fossils, two marsupial species were presumed extinct for over 6,000 years — until scientists found them alive in a remote New Guinea rainforest, with help from Indigenous communities who knew they were there all along.
Cotton-top tamarins are critically endangered, and infant survival is only about 50/50. Meet Algo and Don — the Lake Superior Zoo's newest twins, and the reason it now has its biggest tamarin troop ever.
The ae'o, or Hawaiian stilt, dwindled to roughly 200 birds in the 1940s. After more than 50 years of wetland restoration and predator control, its population has climbed past 1,500 — and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service just made it official, reclassifying the species from endangered to
A species declared extinct in the wild in 1991 has officially been upgraded to "endangered" after conservationists in Australia released 100 genetically rescued eastern barred bandicoots onto Phillip Island near Melbourne this past April — the largest reintroduction of the species ever att
Amy Shinneman has never run a step on her own — Bethlem myopathy, a rare form of muscular dystrophy, makes it impossible. So since 2019, her husband Jamie has pushed her through marathon after marathon in a racing wheelchair. Today, the Noblesville, Indiana couple race the Sydney Marathon
In 1944, neighbors in Old North Dayton, Ohio built a memorial for local WWII veterans — 1,300 schoolkids helped finish paying for it. Eighty years of weather faded it. This June, their neighbors brought it back.
When Olivia's e-bike — her way of getting to cancer treatment — was stolen on Mother's Day, Officer JP Young of the Kansas City Police told her he'd find it. A month later, he spotted it across the street.