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Georgia volunteer spots 250-pound loggerhead deep in marsh, setting off hourslong rescue
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (400+ words) A loggerhead sea turtle ended up nearly a mile inside a Georgia marsh before rescuers intervened, underscoring how volunteers and wildlife officials can protect vulnerable animals when something goes wrong. Wilbur, an adult female, was hauled out through the mud…...
Mess with the bison, you get the horns
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (25+ words) Yahoo Unbelievable scenes at Yellowstone National Park as a man gets flipped multiple times by a bison....
Pomp and tradition meets conservation in annual swan count on the river Thames
10+ hour, 9+ min ago (14+ words) Yahoo...
The latest on Yellowstone bison launching man 8 feet in air
19+ hour, 51+ min ago (66+ words) Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ABC News' Trevor Ault and Jennifer Barfield, the scientific lead for the Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd, share how the... ABC News' Trevor Ault and Jennifer…...
Wisconsin forager finds massive 'chicken of the woods,' and commenters share how to keep it for weeks
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (402+ words) One Wisconsin forager struck what many mushroom hunters would consider the jackpot. While exploring the woods in Minocqua, she stumbled upon an enormous chicken-of-the-woods mushroom. After sharing images of the fungus in Reddit's mushroom-foraging community, the post quickly drew admiration…...
California scientists tested beefalo DNA, and most showed little to no bison ancestry
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (403+ words) Beefalo is sold as a part-bison, part-cattle breed, but its bison ancestry may be far lower than many buyers assume. California researchers found that most of the beefalo animals they tested had little or no bison DNA. Promoted for hardiness;…...
Beavers returned to London, built a wetland by McDonald's, and helped hold back floods
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (514+ words) Near a McDonald's in West London, a beaver family has reshaped a long-overlooked site into a flourishing wetland. It may sound unusual to rely on wildlife for urban water management, but the project's leader says the animals are already helping…...
California study finds sharks kept playing with toys after meals, and one napped on a toy
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (615+ words) A study at a California aquarium is prompting a rethink of the usual view of sharks as little more than nonstop hunters. Across several species, these sharks kept coming back to toys and floating objects after meals, and one horn…...
US urges Americans to eat giant nutria: 'Save a swamp, saute a nutria"
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (545+ words) For National Invasive Species Week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is promoting an unusual idea: put giant nutria on the menu. While the slogan may sound playful, the environmental damage caused by these oversized rodents is a serious problem for…...
Rare white humpback calf, thought to be one of only a dozen, spotted off Australia
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (601+ words) Scientists were given an unusual research opportunity when whale watchers off New South Wales and Queensland reported a mostly white humpback calf, an animal experts think may be among only a small number of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere....