A woman was tending to her backyard garden when something unusual caught her eye. What at first looked like a trick of the light turned out to be a pair…
Scuba diver Casey Barrick has an ambitious goal: to explore 500 of Florida’s natural springs — crystal-clear oases teeming with wildlife. But during one dive earlier this year, his mission…
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…
