Animals and Wildlife

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.

Commercial fishermen who hoped for a loosening of fishing regulations during President Donald Trump’s administration faced a setback when a federal appeals court reinstated rules meant to protect a dwindling whale species from getting entangled in fishing gear.

A miles-long cluster of dolphins was filmed leaping, gliding and cavorting its way across Carmel Bay on the central coast of California.

Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but do not have the legal right to pursue their release since they aren’t human.

A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S. with ice and snow has dealt a glancing blow to Florida and its manatee population. The manatees have been forced to seek warmer waters as coastal temperatures have dropped. The warm-water outflows of about a dozen power plants around Florida are a popular destination for them besides inland natural springs....

37-year-old Allie is due to give birth to the Brookfield Zoo Chicago’s first bottlenose calf in a decade.

Cooper City residents aren’t letting up after 30 Egyptian geese were run over by who police believe were a group of people in an off-road style vehicle caught on surveillance video.

Upset residents voiced their opinions at a city meeting and called for action after 30 geese were killed. NBC6’s Lena Salzbank reports

A video captured what appears to be a pair of North Atlantic right whales near Jensen Beach in Martin County, Florida.