Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission workers are holding an amnesty event today where unwanted nonnative pets can be handed over with no questions asked. ...more

November 7, 2009

South African authorities shot dozens of exhausted whales that beached on a shore near South Africa's storm-lashed southern tip Saturday amid scenes of grief and despair from volunteers who had tried to save them. ...more

May 31, 2009

State wildlife officials are partnering with a Miami zoo to give exotic pet owners a chance to turn over animals without risk of punishment. ...more

March 16, 2009

Kids can be tough to put to bed. What parent doesn't know that? They can be just as hard to wake in the morning. Unless it's the weekend. Then they're up at 6 a.m. jumping on your back demanding chocolate chip pancakes and the Disney Channel. ...more

January 2, 2009

A family of five and a menagerie of pets that ranged from mammals to reptiles escaped a kitchen fire today that did $10,000 damage, authorities say. ...more

December 17, 2008

Taking a big hop forward in marsupial research, scientists say they have unraveled the DNA of a small kangaroo named Matilda. ...more

November 19, 2008

About once a month, two dozen children invade the city public works building for a free lesson about nature, the environment and ecology. ...more

May 19, 2008

SEBRING — Few places in Florida nurse wild bald eagles back to health, but David Wrede said that Wrede's Wildlife Rehabilitation Center does that. He fixes their wings as well as owls, hawks and geese that are all native to the area. On the side, he even houses a few peacocks, cougars and a lone coyote. Although the three bald eagles at Wrede's Wildlife Rehabilitation Center couldn't be released because they had permanent injuries such as a blind right eye in "Thunder's" case, David Wrede said he was looking for volunteers to help some of the 600 to 1,000 other animals that go through the center each year so they can return to the wild. He and his wife Karen Wrede ran the rehab center at Wilderness Trail south of Sebring for more than 18 years, but David said that they had to slow down because of health problems and they've been focusing mostly on birds. He hoped the volunteers could help him expand the center's efforts with mammals and reptiles. ...more

February 12, 2008

Scientists on Saturday dissected a coelacanth, a species of fish known as a living fossil, at the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Yokohama campus, the first such dissection in the country since 1989, with Prince Akishino, an expert on catfish, looking on. ...more

December 23, 2007

An Abyssinian cat from Missouri, named Cinnamon, has just made scientific history. Researchers have largely decoded her DNA, a step that may aid the search for treatments for feline and human diseases. ...more

November 1, 2007