By Amy Woodyatt, CNN London’s famous river is more exciting than we thought. Seahorses, eels, seals — and venomous sharks — have all been discovered in the Thames, the results of a “health check” have shown. A survey by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) revealed “positive news” for wildlife, and ecosystem recovery, the society
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Modern sloths hang out in trees, move at a slow pace and eat a vegetarian diet — but the same thing can’t be said for their extinct relative, Mylodon. This ancient ground sloth, which lived in South America until about 10,000 years ago, chowed down on meat as well as plants,
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Thanks to the effort of the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service, among others federal agencies the famous Bear 399 along with her cubs are safe. Agents of the agencies yesterday were successfully able to radio collar two of 399’s cubs.
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An elk reduction program begins Saturday in Grand Teton National Park.
Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan, CNN A third giraffe has died at the Dallas Zoo in less than a month, the zoo reported. Jesse, a 14-year-old male giraffe died October 29, two days after he first showed signs of an illness, according to the Dallas Zoo. Results from a blood test showed Jesse had “abnormal liver enzymes,”
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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is moving forward with Phase II of the public collaborative process, Elk Feedgrounds: A challenge we can take on.
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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has confirmed the presence of chronic wasting disease in three new elk hunt areas in Wyoming.
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For the first time, the Idaho Falls Zoo has extended its regular season into November.
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Stacker showcases 30 foods that can potentially be poisonous to dogs. The list includes things like nutmeg, garlic, cherries, peaches, onions, and other everyday foods.
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Due to supply and distribution issues with a contractor hired to provide pheasants to Fish and Game Wildlife Management Areas and other stocking locations in the Upper Snake and Salmon Region, pheasants will be redistributed statewide in an effort to supply pheasants during the remainder of the hunting season at a reduced stocking rate per area.
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A group of Democratic lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to enact emergency protections for gray wolves in the U.S. West.
Continue ReadingBy Allegra Goodwin, CNN British environmental watchdogs have launched an investigation after thousands of dead sea creatures washed up on beaches in North East England. Sharon Bell, a Marske-by-the-Sea resident, told CNN she walked the beach near her home every day and had seen a “steady build-up of soft crustaceans,” in the past few weeks.
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN There have long been theories that when great white sharks bite humans, it is a case of mistaken identity. Now, new research simulating the way that a shark would view the world has shown that this may really be the case. Researchers from Australia’s Macquarie University in Sydney found that swimming
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Idaho Department of Fish and Game will stock 1,400 rainbow trout in the 10-12 inch range at three local waters the second week of November.
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Mammoths and other giant creatures of the Ice Age such as woolly rhinos survived longer than scientists thought, coexisting with humans for tens of thousands of years before they vanished for good. That’s according to the results of an ambitious 10-year research project that analyzed DNA from hundreds of soil samples
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN An elephant’s tusks are among its defining features — they help the animal lift heavy branches, topple trees, strip bark, fight, and dig holes for water and minerals. But an increasing proportion of female elephants in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park have been born without these crucial tools, and scientists say it’s
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN Ten years ago, the Italian area of Cinque Terre was hit by a deadly flood. On October 25, 2011, the five tiny fishing villages — which had long been a magnet for tourists from all over the world — were hit by one of the worst inundations the area had ever seen.
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This past summer, fisheries biologists with the Magic Valley Region spent weeks on the Snake River between Milner Dam and Idaho Falls surveying the white sturgeon population.
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For public safety, Grand Teton National Park officials, in coordination with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, euthanized a highly food-conditioned, four-year-old female grizzly bear on Saturday.
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Dozens of dogs at the Idaho Falls Animals Shelter are in desperate need of a loving home.
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Wildlife managers in northern Idaho are warning people to be on the watch for grizzly bears after one was recently reported in the Coeur d’Alene National Forest.
Continue ReadingBy Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The winning images in this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition have been released after a record-breaking number of entries were submitted, with a riveting underwater shot taking home the top prize. Organized by the Natural History Museum in London, the 57th edition of the contest saw 50,000 entries from
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ISLAND PARK, Idaho (KIFI) – Idaho Fish and Game is investigating the death of a bald eagle in Island Park.
Continue Reading Idaho officials will make available up to $200,000 to be divided into payments for hunters and trappers who kill wolves in the state through next summer.
Continue ReadingLet’s hear it for the trailblazers.
Continue ReadingYou’re out for a hike on a glorious fall day. Suddenly, you spot a bear. And the bear has spotted you, too. Would you know what to do next?
Continue ReadingBy Seán Federico-O’Murchú A generously girthed brown bear by the name of 480 Otis is again the winner of Fat Bear Week, the fourth time this ursine wonder has claimed the crown. The portly veteran — who was also champion in 2014, 2016 and 2017 — defeated 151 Walker as voted by the public, according
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An Idaho State Police trooper came to the aid of a great-horned owl.
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Conservation officers and biologists from Idaho Fish and Game teamed up with a group of volunteers recently to pick and gather apples around the city of Ashton in an effort to prevent the juicy fruits from attracting bears into backyards.
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business One mid-September evening in 2018, Joel Cusick found himself pointing a laser scanner at the butt of a bear named Otis. Cusick was taking a break from work, standing on a platform along the Brooks River in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve — a world-famous spot for bear watching,
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To find the top 10 countries where U.S. pet food comes from, Ollie analyzed import data from the U.S. Census Bureau from 2010 through June 2021.
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As part of ongoing efforts required under the Endangered Species Act to monitor the population of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, biologists with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) will conduct pre-baiting and trapping operations within Grand Teton National Park Oct. 4 to Oct. 31.
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Jackson, CNN Hawaii residents and tourists will no longer be able to swim or get in close contact with Hawaiian spinner dolphins, according to a new rule by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The rule has been years in the making, as biologists have long noticed that the playful mammals have been
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Wyoming Game and Fish is continuing to aid the recovery of a species once thought extinct.
Continue ReadingWhile the Isle of Wight may be better suited for tourists these days, it was once “Dinosaur Island.”
Continue ReadingThe ivory-billed woodpecker, along with 22 other species of birds, fish, mussels and other wildlife, is set to be declared extinct and removed from the endangered species list, US federal wildlife officials announced Wednesday.
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Yellowstone National Park wolf biologists report the park’s Junction Butte Pack (27 wolves) lost three wolves to Montana hunters during the first week of Montana’s wolf hunting season.
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Animal shelters across the country are trying to get animals out of facilities and into the homes of new families.
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Tyrannosaurus rex battled parasites and got gout from its meat-rich diet. Duck-billed hadrosaurs suffered cancerous tumors, and a towering sauropod in China survived a nasty pus-filled infection from a predator bite. Dinosaurs, like us, got sick and injured. By detecting these medical conditions in fossils, paleopathologists, experts in ancient disease and
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The Idaho Falls Zoo will begin fall hours in October that will allow you even more time to enjoy the zoo as the temperatures cool down.
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Schupak, CNN In the wake of Hurricane Ida, the pummeling rain that hit cities up and down the East Coast at the start of September overwhelmed storm drains, poured into subway stations and filled basements like bathtubs. The devastating human toll is well known. Less clear is what happened to the denizens of
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The pups will be taking over the pool at the Ross Park Aquatic Complex Saturday.
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Governor Gordon announced Thursday the State of Wyoming is seeking state management of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE).
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The Biden administration says federal protections may need to be restored for gray wolves in the western U.S. after Republican-led states made it much easier to kill the predators.
Continue ReadingBy Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Discovering prehistoric artifacts is amazing enough. But finding them deep in the belly of a massive alligator — that’s something else. Shane Smith, owner of Red Antler Processing in Yazoo City, Mississippi, was digging through the stomach of a 13-foot-5-inch alligator when he found a couple of objects he just couldn’t
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Earlier this summer, the Idaho Falls Zoo welcomed two new baby red pandas.
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN In many ways, Siggi was born an average puppy: sweet, cheerful and extremely playful. But the spotted rat terrier was also quite unusual. Due to a birth defect, her front paws were upside down. A team at Oklahoma State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine was able to give Siggi a chance
Continue ReadingBy Isabelle Jani-Friend, CNN If you can potty-train a child, you can potty-train a cow. At least, that was the theory a group of researchers in Germany decided to test, in a bid to find a solution to the environmental damage caused by livestock waste. “It’s usually assumed that cattle are not capable of controlling
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Pedigree® Stage Stop Sled Dog Race organizers announced the following teams are officially entered in the 2022 Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race.
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The City of Chubbuck broke ground on its new animal control facility Tuesday.
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A game warden gave a warning to a man in Wyoming who took a bighorn sheep lamb home with him.
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Yellowstone National Park officials report the elk rut has begun in Yellowstone.
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN Gophers goofing around, a laughing snake and racoons seemingly sharing their secrets are among the shortlisted images for the 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards. The selection of 42 images make up the final shortlist for the competition, which received more than 7,000 entries from around the world, according to a press
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Geckos would definitely medal in a contest for nature’s best feet. The lizard’s sticky toes, covered in tiny hairs, mean it can climb across ceilings in a fantastic feat of evolution. But scientists say the lizards’ tails are just as extraordinary, with geckos performing a remarkable, if ungainly, maneuver that allows
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN At first whiff, you might think all skunks are the same. Not so. Meet spotted skunks, “the acrobats of the skunk world.” Scientists have discovered that there are more of these species than they thought, according to new research. More recently, the agreed-upon number was four. But a new study published
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There has been a bacteria roaming around in domestic sheep that can be deadly to the bighorn ram population. It is called Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae or MOV for short.
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN If you have a dog and tell them it’s National Dog Day, I suspect they will reply: “I thought everyday was dog day! Now where’s my treat?” As they woof that down, take a moment to reflect on all that your dog brings to you. Perhaps it is you, dear owner,
Continue Reading Two conservation groups are asking the Biden administration to immediately reinstate a federal monitoring program to oversee the management of gray wolves in Idaho and Montana following changes in wolf hunting laws in the two states intended to drastically reduce wolf numbers.
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN A discovery made during a police raid has been identified as the most complete fossil of a flying reptile from Brazil. The remains revealed new information about tapejarids, or pterosaurs that soared across the skies during the Early Cretaceous period between 100.5 million and 145 million years ago. A study on
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The Idaho Falls Zoo announced there’s a new girl in town: an Amur tiger named Eloise.
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4-H trained wild horses will be up for adoption as the program comes to eastern and southeastern idaho.
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You’ll be able to get into Zoo Idaho for free this Saturday.
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The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) Animal Health Laboratory has confirmed multiple cases of West Nile Virus (WNV) in horses.
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN The youngest orca at SeaWorld San Diego died at the animal theme park from an illness, leaving those who cared for her heartbroken. On Wednesday, Amaya, the 6-year-old orca, started showing signs of an illness so animal care specialists and veterinarians began treating her, SeaWorld said in a statement. Almost 24
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Kent, CNN Just like people, chimpanzees and bonobos aren’t ones for leaving without saying goodbye. Apes purposefully use signals to begin and end social interactions — behaviors not typically seen outside of humans until now, according to a new study published in the journal iScience. Researchers analyzed more than 1,200 interactions with groups
Continue ReadingBy Sara Spary, CNN Baby bats babble just like human infants when learning to communicate, a new study has found. Scientists from the Museum of Natural History in Berlin eavesdropped on 20 baby bats — called pups — and found that, just like humans, they practice making noises before learning how to talk to others.
Continue ReadingBy Megan Marples, CNN Have you ever heard a rattlesnake rattling up close? It turns out the venomous reptiles change the frequency of their rattle the closer humans get to them, according to a new study published Thursday in Current Biology. Rattlesnakes prey on small animals like rodents and vibrate their tails when they feel
Continue ReadingPoppy, a young golden retriever, was found wandering the streets north of Shanghai before she was rescued and brought to the US.
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East Idaho Spay Neuter Coalition’s 2nd annual Pints for Paws fundraising event is set to be held Saturday, August 14.
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A grizzly bear that fatally mauled a Montana man near Yellowstone National Park this spring was likely defending a moose carcass.
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For only the second time in the zoo’s history, red panda cubs have been born at the Idaho Falls Zoo.
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For the first time in 20 years, botanists have identified a new carnivorous plant on the Pacific coast of North America, but what’s good news for science is bad news for insects.
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Southeastern Idaho Public Health has confirmed a bat has tested positive for rabies in Power County.
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Hunters in Montana could see changes from the widespread drought hitting the state this summer including potential access closures and fewer animals surviving to adulthood.
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN We are driven by discovery. As a kid, I devoured stories about the arduous efforts to reveal the past (and I still do). There were divers seeking shipwrecks, astronomers peering through telescopes at the universe, researchers digging for fossils, and historians looking through pages and paintings to find lost masterpieces. Their
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An adult male grizzly was captured and relocated Tuesday after USDA Wildlife Services officials determined the bear had killed a yearling domestic bull on a grazing allotment near Island Park Reservoir.
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN With their crane-like necks, spindle legs and knobbly knees, giraffes are among the best loved and most recognizable of animals. Despite their elevated stature, however, giraffes have kept their surprisingly intricate social behavior under wraps. Once perceived as humble creatures that focused solely on feeding their majestic bodies, one book from
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN A species of tiny chameleons presumed to be extinct due to deforestation has been found, but it is clinging to survival. Up to only 5.5 centimeters (2.2 inches) long, the critically endangered Chapman’s pygmy chameleon (Rhampholeon chapmanorum) is native to the low-elevation rainforest of the Malawi Hills in southern Malawi, a
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Sara Weaver and her husband knew their newest home purchase in Pennsylvania needed some extra love and attention — but what they didn’t know is that an estimated 450,000 bees had been living in the walls for almost 35 years. Weaver bought the 1872 farmhouse in Skippack, about 30 miles northwest
Continue Reading The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved killing up to four uncollared wolves in eastern Oregon’s Baker County, where officials say the Lookout Mountain wolf pack attacked four cows in 14 days.
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Due to expected inclement weather, the Senior Day scheduled for August 2 has been changed to Monday, Aug. 9.
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Governor Mark Gordon announced Michael Lenz of Alpine as the 2021 winner of the Wyoming Governor’s Wild Bison raffle.
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While polar bears are known for being worthy opponents in the Arctic, questions remained about how they managed some of their largest kills, such as walruses, and new research shows they employed the use of rock and blocks of ice as weapons.
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The Idaho Falls Animal Shelter is dealing with a decrease in the number of volunteers and has seen an increase in the number of people turning in their pets.
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Attorney General Lawrence Wasden is warning Idahoans to avoid buying pets over the internet.
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Trout are resilient and even extreme weather rarely has a long-term impact on populations
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN As the first North American insect to go extinct due to humans, a blue butterfly has become an icon for insect conservation — and what happens when humans destroy habitats without thought for the creatures living in them. The last of the Xerces blue butterflies fluttered through the air in San
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A yearling moose on a walk-about was captured out of a Twin Falls neighborhood and relocated back into suitable moose habitat north of Carey, Idaho.
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Jackson and Camille Furst, CNN A large colorful fish washed ashore on the Oregon coast last week in what aquarium officials called a rare occurrence. The 100-pound (45 kilogram) opah fish, also known as a moonfish, was discovered on Sunset Beach in Seaside, a city in the northwest side of the state. The
Continue Reading Environmental groups have notified Idaho Gov. Brad Little and other state officials of their intent to file a lawsuit over an expanded wolf-killing law the groups say will result in the illegal killing of federally protected grizzly bear and lynx.
Continue ReadingNearly four years ago, Danielle Crull rescued a stray kitten from a forest in Pennsylvania.
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Wildlife biologists have captured a female grizzly bear in Washington state for the first time in 40 years, fitting it with a radio collar so they can track its movements.
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Gallatin County Sheriff’s deputies investigated a call regarding animal cruelty on July 6.
Continue ReadingBy David Williams, CNN The tiny goldfish you can pick up at pet store for a few cents might not look like an environmental threat, but they can grow into a huge problem if set free in lakes or ponds — mainly because they can grow to be surprisingly huge. Burnsville, Minnesota, which is south
Continue Reading You can add a cat or kitten to your family for half-price July 12 through July 24 thanks to The Friends of the Pocatello Animal Shelter.
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Colorado’s first litter of gray wolf pups since the 1940s has grown to include six pups.
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette, Neelam Bohra and Justin Lear, CNN Wildlife officials in Montana shot and killed a grizzly bear Friday morning less than two miles from Ovando, where a 65-year-old woman was killed in a bear attack Tuesday, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks confirmed. “Given the proximity to Tuesday’s attack, the evidence found at the
Continue ReadingAs the planet warms, a study found that male dragonflies are losing a crucial feature they typically use to attract female mates: the ornate black patterns on their wings.
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The Oregon Department of Agriculture has filed a temporary emergency rule requiring all mink ranchers to vaccinate their animals against COVID-19.
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Federal officials have given preliminary approval to a conservation group’s contentious proposal to expand bison grazing on public lands in north-central Montana.
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