“I actually take him everywhere I go.” While delivering mail along his usual rural route, Alexander Farris spotted something small and bright orange near the roadside. Curious, he pulled over…
“ the kind of darkness that makes your stomach turn …” Earlier this month, animal rescuer Suzette Hall pulled into a deserted public park long after sunset. She had received…
She was speechless. Late last month, a concerned Texan rushed into Austin Wildlife Rescue carrying a young porcupine in obvious distress. The little animal’s quills were thin and patchy, his…
A new study suggests that mice raised in more natural, outdoor environments behave very differently from their caged laboratory counterparts — and that difference could have major implications for medical…
A new study suggests that flipping a single gene in the brain can transform devoted dads into aggressive attackers — at least in African striped mice. But the gene doesn’t…
Half a billion years ago, some of the earliest vertebrates may have relied on not two — but four — eyes to survive in the predator-filled Cambrian oceans. New fossil…
Researchers have identified a new Spinosaurus species with a blade-like crest in Niger, changing our understanding of dinosaur evolution and behavior. About 95 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period,…
In 1774, British physician Charles Blagden eagerly accepted an unusual challenge: to sit inside a small room heated to temperatures once thought fatal to any living creature. To his amazement,…
“You can’t help but smile!” Caring for orphaned wild animals is never a one-person job. At Austin Wildlife Rescue (AWR), the whole community plays a role — and the donations…
He’d been out there for more than 24 hours 🥶 It was early Sunday morning when two fishermen set out on the Detroit River in a small motorboat, cutting through…