Wildlife Encounters

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (102+ words) AGOURA HILLS, Calif. (KABC) -- There are growing concerns that El Niño could delay the opening of the world's largest wildlife crossing, in Southern California. The $114 million Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is slated to open in December over the 101 Freeway in…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (823+ words) JOSHUA TREE, Calif. — Rescue dogs Merlin and Siska are readying for an important mission out in the Mojave Desert: find animal poop. “The isolation, long-term, of those populations could mean that those wildlife species aren’t viable into the future,” Aiello,…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (287+ words) FIRE ISLAND, N.Y. -- Two juvenile humpback whales stranded on sandbars off New York's Fire Island returned to open water, with one helped by rising tides and crews that responded, including the U.S. Coast Guard. Coast Guard personnel responded to a report of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (550+ words) After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve. The nonprofit running the longstanding contest announced that the bear, known for his pacifist nature, was…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (192+ words) Hurricane Polo and El Niño are combining forces off the coast, bringing unusual and rarely seen sea life into the waters of Southern California. Orcas spotted off Newport Beach as El Nino, Hurricane Polo continue to push rare wildlife to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (312+ words) Somehow, a Gaboon viper — whose home is the tropics of central and western Africa — was on the loose Monday in a Southern California neighborhood, police say. The sighting of the extremely venomous viper, which has the longest fangs of any…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (176+ words) A picture taken on October 5, 2018 at the Palais de la Decouverte in Paris shows a Bitis gabonica, most commonly known as the Gaboon viper, during the installation of an exhibition called “Poison” gathering 30 poisonous species. A highly venomous snake has…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (318+ words) Two historic sea turtle nests discovered in Southern California have been confirmed to belong to two different endangered olive ridley sea turtles, according to NOAA Fisheries. The nests are the first-ever documented olive ridley sea turtle nests on the West…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (441+ words) ALLEN J. SCHABEN Los Angeles Times A BIOLOGIST walks near a Chinook salmon carcass on the banks of the Sacramento River in Redding. Chinook salmon have been laying eggs in gravelly nests in the Sacramento River for millennia. But California’s biggest…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (915+ words) Chinook salmon have been laying eggs in gravelly nests in the Sacramento River for millennia. But California’s biggest river is now so warm that biologists expect a significant number of the eggs won’t hatch. Environmental advocates blame the Trump administration....