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Springer spaniels sniff out turtle threat
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (479+ words) A dynamic team featuring man and his best friends is helping track down one of the biggest threats to nesting marine turtles along the region’s coastline – foxes. Tom Garrett and his conservation dogs Cooper and Wally have been putting their…...
It’s rattlesnake season, know snakebite protocol
4+ hour, 27+ min ago (562+ words) After seeing a recent news report about a Southern California woman who was bitten by a rattlesnake in her yard, it was discovered that the local hospital has anti-venom should a resident need emergency treatment for a snakebite. Valerie Hunter…...
The danger of snakes and scorpions threatens displaced peopl
7+ hour, 17+ min ago (600+ words) Wed 26 Aug 2026 6:47 pm - Jerusalem Time With more than two million Palestinians displaced, hundreds of thousands of them live in dilapidated tents lacking the most basic ground protection, making it easy for scorpions and snakes to infiltrate sleeping areas. This crisis…...
Rattlesnake Mating Season
5+ hour, 3+ min ago (67+ words) A timber rattlesnake photographed on Crowfield Road heading toward Boal Gap Road near Penn-Roosevelt State Park. Rattlesnakes are very active during the summer mating season. The frequency of encounters between humans and timber rattlesnakes increases in July and August when…...
This frog has been 'invisible' to the science community for over a century. It's finally getting a name
5+ hour, 39+ min ago (578+ words) Evolutionary biologist Santiago Ron and his peers at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador have recently discovered a new frog species that was hiding in plain sight for over a century. Unlike other species that are new to science — which…...
Rattlesnake Spotted At OC Beach; Man Says It Slithered By His Feet
1+ hour ago (198+ words) NEWPORT BEACH, CA — Video recently posted to social media shows a large rattlesnake slithering through where you may least expect it: a sandy shoreline. The video was posted by stand-up comedian and TV host Nicky Paris, who said he was…...
Gopher tortoise: A keystone species
8+ hour, 33+ min ago (340+ words) Learning about native species like the gopher tortoise reminds us how interconnected our gardens and backyards are with the surrounding natural world. September is the month that most of the world associates with the beginning of fall. However, for those…...
47 turtles rescued from dried-up well in Kantale
8+ hour, 10+ min ago (93+ words) Newswire 47 turtles rescued from dried-up well in Kantale Wildlife officials rescued 46 star tortoises and one flapshell turtle from a well that had dried up due to severe drought conditions in the Kantale area on Wednesday (26). The rescue was carried out…...
Española Island got its 2,300 giant tortoises back from 15 founders, and the vegetation that grew over the bare rock while they were gone has cost an endangered albatross some of its nesting colonies
10+ hour, 15+ min ago (771+ words) An animal the weight of a motorcycle moves through dry scrub at the pace of a slow tide. It stops at a fallen cactus pad and takes it whole, spines and all. Behind it lies a flattened track of crushed…...
An Ice Age Toad Sat Hidden in a Museum for 70 Years
10+ hour, 33+ min ago (360+ words) A researcher discovered a previously unknown amphibian that lived during the Ice Age in what is now Los Angeles. This extinct spadefoot toad species, named Spea labreae, is the first new amphibian species discovered from the La Brea Tar Pits....