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News Articles: Animals

Patchouli is one of the last sea lions released from the Marine Mammal Care Center after a toxic algae bloom in Southern California.

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Sea lions are released after toxic algae bloom in California

Marine mammal researchers are investigating how sea lions were affected by the longest toxic algal bloom on record off the coast of Southern California. Some sea lions are being released back into the wild.

July 08, 2025
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  • NPR Staff
Seth Silverstein and Robert Turybury pose next to a goliath grouper that Turybury caught along the beach of St. Simons Island on June 7.

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  • Animals

Georgia angler catches 400-pound goliath grouper off St. Simons Island

The federally protected goliath grouper is the largest grouper species in the Atlantic Ocean.

July 07, 2025
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
The lights (center horizon) from Exit 42, the location of the new Buc-ee’s, are seen 14 miles away on the beach of Sapelo Island on June 25, 2025. Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current GA/CatchLight Local

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Experts: Lights for new Buc-ee’s exit deadly to baby sea turtles

Like many Coastal Georgians, baby sea turtles may begin to start crawling towards the new Buc-ee’s mega gas station in Brunswick. But the trip toward its 23 high-mast lights, which are visible from Georgia beaches as far as 12 miles away, would likely kill the newborn animals. 

July 02, 2025
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By:
  • Lily Belle Poling and
  • The Current
A 5-year-old Customs and Border Protection beagle named Freddie, pictured in a CBP Facebook video in March, was kicked and injured by a traveler this week during a bag search at Washington Dulles International Airport.

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  • Law

Man kicked and injured a CBP beagle during airport baggage search

An Egyptian traveler who kicked the 25-pound dog was ordered to pay its vet fees and turn himself in for removal from the country.

June 28, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
The seal of the National Transportation Safety Board is seen before a news conference at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Jan. 31. The pilot of a small plane that crashed near a North Carolina airport this month had raised a wheel after landing to avoid hitting a turtle on the runway, according to a preliminary report by the NTSB.

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  • National

Pilot who died in N.C. plane crash tried to avoid a turtle on airport runway

The pilot of a small plane that crashed near an airport tried to avoid hitting a turtle on the runway, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report. The pilot and a passenger were killed.

June 21, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A flock of Canada geese in a field.

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  • Animals

As the summer goes on, you might notice more geese lingering on your lawn

If you see Canada geese lingering about, they might be there to stay for a while.

June 20, 2025
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By:
  • Chase McGee
An oriental magpie-robin perches on a tree branch in Bangkok in 2022. The bird was among the species that researchers studied in a rainforest in India.

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  • Science

A new study knocks down a popular hypothesis about why birds sing at dawn

The reason why birds make such a racket at dawn is still unclear. But researchers are now pouring cold water on one popular idea about why.

June 20, 2025
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  • James Doubek
The southern black racer is one of Georgia’s 40 non-venomous snakes that are protected by law from being hunted or killed. Richard Stovall/Unsplash

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Killing GA’s non-venomous snakes may bring more trouble than you think

Georgia ranks eighth among states with the most snake species, according to the World Population Review, but only seven out of 47 are venomous. Despite this, it is illegal to kill non-venomous snakes and most nongame animals in the state of Georgia.

June 18, 2025
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  • Cameron Smith and
  • The Telegraph
In this image provided by Zoo Miami, Goliath, a 517-pound (234-kilogram) Galapagos tortoise at Zoo Miami, meets his first offspring on June 12, 2025, in Miami.

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  • Animals

Goliath the Galápagos tortoise celebrated his first Father's Day and 135th birthday

Goliath had been paired with several female tortoises before, in hopes of producing a hatchling, but the process wasn't successful until earlier this month.

June 18, 2025
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
In this image taken from June 8, 2025, video by the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office in Rutherford County, Tennessee, shows the airlifting of a zebra named Ed that had evaded capture for several days after it ran away from its owner.

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  • Animals

Ed, the runaway pet zebra, has been captured in Tennessee

Ed the Zebra was captured safely after being located in a pasture near a subdivision in the Christiana community in central Tennessee, the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office confirmed.

June 09, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally, whose front flipper was amputated after she was rescued in January suffering from predator wounds, crawls toward the Atlantic Ocean after being released, on the beach in front of Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Fla., Wednesday, June 4, 2025.

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Sea turtle Dilly Dally released into the ocean with three flippers after undergoing amputation

Dilly Dally, a loggerhead turtle who survived a run-in with a predator that ultimately cost her a flipper, has been rereleased into the wild.

June 06, 2025
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  • Alana Wise

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  • World

Greetings from Mexico City, where these dogs ride a bus to and from school

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world.

June 04, 2025
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By:
  • Eyder Peralta
Clownfish swim at the Ocearium in Le Croisic, western France, on December 6, 2016.

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  • Science

Some clownfish are shrinking, according to new study. Here's why

Clownfish in Papua New Guinea are temporarily shrinking in response to heat stress caused by climate change, a new study found. Here's how that might help them deal with warmer water temps.

June 02, 2025
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By:
  • Kaity Kline
Valerie the mini dachshund, at home in mid-May.

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  • Animals

After 529 days alone in the Australian bush, Valerie the mini dachshund is home

Valerie ran off while she was on a camping trip with her owners back in 2023 on a remote island in Australia. They had lost hope until locals spotted her more than a year later, surviving in the wild.

May 30, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Diamondback terrapin

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  • Environment

Jekyll Island Authority launches interactive maps to track turtle activity in real time

More than 250 diamondback terrapins have been documented along the Jekyll Island Causeway so far this year, with about two-thirds rescued alive.

May 29, 2025
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  • Benjamin Payne
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