One April morning, staff at the Little Creek Navy Base in Norfolk, Virginia, noticed two unexpected visitors outside an administration building — tiny, shivering otter pups, no more than 5…
When a Good Samaritan spotted a central ratsnake with a strange lump in his belly, they knew something wasn’t right. The snake was rushed to Blue Ridge Wildlife Center in…
At first glance, the eastern quoll could be mistaken for an ordinary, cat-sized marsupial. Native to Tasmania, Australia, these nocturnal creatures sport brownish-gray or black fur peppered with white spots…
When a Belchertown, Massachusetts, resident stepped outside after a heavy rainstorm, they didn’t expect to find a heartbreaking scene waiting just beyond the porch. There, curled up and trembling in…
While hiking up Piestewa Peak in Phoenix the other morning, Jacqueline Hurst spotted something moving quietly among the rocks — a flash of motion that instantly caught her attention. At…
While walking through his hometown of Olney, Illinois, Elliott Atherton came across a charming sight: three white squirrels darting around a tree trunk, chasing one another in the sunshine. In…
When a homeowner glanced at her concrete porch last month, she froze. Poking out of a crack were two tiny legs and a tail — and they were moving. A…
One evening in San Francisco, dance instructor Kami Liddle was walking home after rehearsal when something unusual on the sidewalk caught her attention. “Out of the corner of my eye,…
The team at Rattlesnake Solutions in Arizona has seen just about every kind of snake imaginable. But even for these seasoned experts, one reptile recently stopped them in their tracks.…
