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Youngest J pod southern resident orca presumed dead

January 30, 2024, 7:41am Life

An orca born around Christmas Day, dubbed J60, who dazzled beachgoers on Bainbridge Island’s shores is now presumed dead, according to researchers. Read story

Bob Sallinger, executive director of Bird Conservation Oregon, touring the Astoria-Megler Bridge, issued warnings years ago about relocating cormorants from Sand Island. Photographed Dec. 13, 2023, on the waters of the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon.

Fixing the cormorant disaster on the Columbia: ‘How could this have come out any worse?’

Bob Sallinger, executive director of Bird Conservation Oregon, touring the Astoria-Megler Bridge, issued warnings years ago about relocating cormorants from Sand Island. Photographed Dec. 13, 2023, on the waters of the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon.

January 29, 2024, 6:02am Latest News

White streaks of bird waste paint the steel trusses beneath the Astoria-Megler Bridge over the Columbia River. Every flat surface and hidey-hole of this bridge is stuffed and stippled with nests. Black birds roost on the girders, evenly spaced as beads on a string, then take wing: double-crested cormorants. Read story

A giraffe is among hundreds of animals living at the Ostok Sanctuary near Culiacan.

Lions, tigers and monkey in bulletproof vest

A giraffe is among hundreds of animals living at the Ostok Sanctuary near Culiacan.

January 27, 2024, 6:02am Life

Emilia is a 2-year-old spider monkey who wears jeans, crop tops and Armani perfume. Read story

Noemie Leibov, 8, pauses reading aloud to pet Strummer during Tails and Tales at the Mukilteo Library on Jan. 17 in Mukilteo.

Tales and Tails: Therapy dogs help kids conquer reading fear at Mukilteo Library

Noemie Leibov, 8, pauses reading aloud to pet Strummer during Tails and Tales at the Mukilteo Library on Jan. 17 in Mukilteo.

January 26, 2024, 6:04am Life

On a snowy Wednesday afternoon, Nichole Leibov and her 8-year-old daughter Noemie headed to the Mukilteo Library for their biweekly tradition. Read story

Study: Washington home to ‘most responsible dog parents’

January 26, 2024, 6:04am Life

There once was a time in which it was completely outrageous and even controversial to refer to our dogs as our children, but in this post-pandemic world that we live in, it is the new norm. Read story

In this image taken from video provided by Michigan State Police, officers work to extricate a man from the waters of frozen Arbutus Lake in Grand Traverse County, Mich., Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. The man was rescued after a quick-thinking state police officer used the stranded man&rsquo;s dog to get rescue equipment to him and pull the man to safety in a rescue captured on video.

Officer enlists Michigan man’s dog to help rescue him from icy lake

In this image taken from video provided by Michigan State Police, officers work to extricate a man from the waters of frozen Arbutus Lake in Grand Traverse County, Mich., Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. The man was rescued after a quick-thinking state police officer used the stranded man&rsquo;s dog to get rescue equipment to him and pull the man to safety in a rescue captured on video.

January 26, 2024, 6:04am Life

A man who fell through the ice on a frozen Michigan lake was rescued after a quick-thinking state police officer used the stranded man’s dog to get rescue equipment to him and pull the man to safety. Read story

Ariel, a black spaniel, after surgery, in Bristol, England, on Jan.

6-legged spaniel undergoes surgery to remove extra limbs and adjusts to life on 4 paws

Ariel, a black spaniel, after surgery, in Bristol, England, on Jan.

January 26, 2024, 6:04am Life

A spaniel born with six legs that was found abandoned in a supermarket parking lot is now like other dogs after having her extra limbs surgically removed. Read story

CAPTION CORRECTS INFO FILE - Keeper Zachariah Mutai attends to Fatu, one of only two northern white rhinos left in the world, in the pen at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia county in Kenya. Fatu is incapable of natural reproduction. The last male white rhino, Sudan, was 45 when he was euthanized in 2018 due to age-related complications. In testing with another subspecies, researchers created a southern white rhino embryo in a lab from an egg and sperm that had been previously collected from other rhinos and transferred it into a southern white rhino surrogate mother at the Ol-Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. The team only learned of the pregnancy after the surrogate mother died of a bacterial infection in November 2023.

A rhino got pregnant from embryo transfer, in a success that may help nearly extinct subspecies

CAPTION CORRECTS INFO FILE - Keeper Zachariah Mutai attends to Fatu, one of only two northern white rhinos left in the world, in the pen at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia county in Kenya. Fatu is incapable of natural reproduction. The last male white rhino, Sudan, was 45 when he was euthanized in 2018 due to age-related complications. In testing with another subspecies, researchers created a southern white rhino embryo in a lab from an egg and sperm that had been previously collected from other rhinos and transferred it into a southern white rhino surrogate mother at the Ol-Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. The team only learned of the pregnancy after the surrogate mother died of a bacterial infection in November 2023.

January 25, 2024, 8:00am Life

A rhinoceros was impregnated through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that conservationists said might later make it possible to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies. Read story

Vancouver native Mark Bittner and his many parrot friends one day in the early 2000s on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.

Birder of Telegraph Hill: Kiggins screens parrot documentary starring Vancouver native

Vancouver native Mark Bittner and his many parrot friends one day in the early 2000s on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.

January 25, 2024, 6:02am Clark County Life

It was big Bay Area news last summer when sea lions, the tourism darlings of San Francisco’s Pier 39 Marina, took a dive in a contest to name that city’s “unofficial-official” animal. Read story

FILE - A bald eagle flies at Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, Dec. 24, 2021, in Mound City, Mo. Harvey Hugs, a Montana felon previously convicted of killing eagles to sell their parts on the black market, was sentenced to three years in federal prison Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, for related gun violations.

Montana man convicted of killing eagles is sentenced to 3 years in prison for related gun violations

FILE - A bald eagle flies at Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, Dec. 24, 2021, in Mound City, Mo. Harvey Hugs, a Montana felon previously convicted of killing eagles to sell their parts on the black market, was sentenced to three years in federal prison Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, for related gun violations.

January 24, 2024, 6:47pm Life

A Montana felon previously convicted of killing eagles to sell their parts on the black market was sentenced to three years in federal prison on Wednesday for related gun violations. Read story