Animals and Wildlife

SeaWorld Orlando is facing a fine from the federal government after one of its trainers was injured by an orca whale during a training exercise, according to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). The incident happened in September 2024, when “an employee at SeaWorld’s Orlando theme park was injured during a training exercise with a killer whale,” a news...

The federal government has fined the company more than $16,000. SeaWorld has 15 days to comply, request more information or contest the citation.

In a measure named after a dog found tied to a fence along Interstate 75 during Hurricane Milton, the Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill aimed at preventing animal cruelty. “Trooper’s Law” (SB 150) would create a new offense of animal cruelty for people who restrain dogs outside during natural disasters and abandon them. The offense would be a…

The 23-inch skull is believed to be at least 60,000 years old. Bids will be accepted until Thursday, March 20.

Australia officials are looking into whether Montana-based influencer Sam Jones breached immigration law when fleeing the country.

An Australian high school discovered that a boulder which had sat in the parking lot for over 20 years contained fossilized footprints of the three-toed Pisanosaurus.

“They did not know that this was an actual fossil itself. Some were thinking that it was a replica,” Australian paleontologist Anthony Romilio said.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has advice for dealing with certain types of invasive species — eat them. Here’s what Nutria, iguana and Northern Snakehead tastes like.

A dolphin weighing more than 900 pounds appeared to fall out of the sky before landing in a small fishing boat off the coast of New Zealand.

A beautiful moment was captured live in a nest in Big Bear Valley, California.

Video showed an alligator crossing a road in Boynton Beach with what officials called “nature’s hard candy” in its mouth.

Video showed an alligator crossing a road in Boynton Beach on Feb. 19 with what officials called “nature’s hard candy” in its mouth.

A California boat captain captured video of the huge group off the coast of Monterey Bay.

Eight green sea turtles were released back into the Atlantic Ocean nearly a month after an arctic blast in northern Florida.

Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to prevent its extinction flourished, it was a sneaky god.

The dolphin species were found beached on Australia’s island state of Tasmania Tuesday afternoon.

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident quickly went viral.

A man described feeling “the shudders” as more than 100 venomous red-bellied black snakes were removed from a pile of mulch in his Sydney backyard.

Dolly was born in 1968 in the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park in South Africa. She was one of the first white rhinos at the Knoxville zoo, where she had lived since 1976.

A team of Canadian scientists at CarbonRun discovered two environmental wins with one stone — limestone. Accelerating a natural process through “enhanced rock weathering” helps restore river ecosystems while also offsetting pollution from oil and gas. Climate reporter Chase Cain traveled to Nova Scotia to see how the first-of-its-kind process works.