A coyote at the Fort Worth Zoo is photographed in the hours leading up to the April 8 total solar eclipse. The Hartstone-Rose Research Lab, NC State hide caption
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Two horses bolt through the streets of London near Aldwych on Wednesday. Jordan Pettitt/PA Images via Getty Images hide caption
Damming waterways is what beavers do best, often to the chagrin of people who want the opposite. But those same damming skills are what make beavers important ecosystem engineers. Chase Dekker Wild-Life Images hide caption
Amy Tan, author of The Backyard Bird Chronicles. Kim Newmoney/Penguin Randomhouse hide caption
Amy Tan's bird obsession led to a new book — and keeping mealworms in her fridge
A volunteer at City Wildlife in Washington, D.C., feeds a baby squirrel with formula. The center helps rehabilitate animals that are injured or orphaned. Jacob Fenston hide caption
A black bear cub is pictured at Triple D Game Farm in Kalispell, Mont., in 2005. AP hide caption
San Francisco Mayor London Breed (left) and Wu Minglu, secretary general of the China Wildlife Conservation Association, hold up an agreement to lease giant pandas for the San Francisco Zoological Society and Gardens during a signing ceremony in Beijing on Friday. Liu Zheng/AP hide caption
An artistic rendering of a washed-up Ichthyotitan severnensis carcass on the beach. Sergey Krasovskiy hide caption
An 11-year-old unearthed fossils of the largest known marine reptile
A screenshot of a video from the website Storyful shows an elephant walking through Butte, Mont., after escaping from a nearby circus on Tuesday. Storyful/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
University of Miami Marine Sciences student Lauren Hayes with her catch, a 7 or 8 pound mutton snapper, which was released and returned to its reef habitat more than 100 feet below the surface. Greg Allen/NPR hide caption
After catch and release, here's how to make sure reef fish survive
Selkirkia tsering fossil found in a collection from the Fezouata Formation in Morocco. Javier Ortega Hernández/Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology hide caption
Ancient predatory worms have scientists rethinking the history of life on Earth
With diary cows getting bird flu, researchers are trying to figure out what mutations could make the virus a threat to humans. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption
A two-spot octopus, like the type an Oklahoma family brought home as a pet. Angelina Komatovich hide caption
Terrance the octopus came to live with a family. Then she laid dozens of eggs
In the womb, a brother's hormones can shape a sister's future
A dog tries on eclipse sunglasses in London in 2015. Experts say pets don't need eclipse sunglasses — in fact, quite the opposite. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP hide caption
The black-capped chickadee, seen here, is well known for its strong episodic memory. Dmitriy Aronov hide caption
The "barcodes" powering these tiny songbirds' memories may also help human memory
Thousands of young salmon died after the truck crash, unable to reach nearby Lookingglass Creek in northeast Oregon. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hide caption
A mother humpback whale and calf are seen on the coast of Vitoria, Espirito Santo state, Brazil on August 22, 2023. Carl de Souza/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Indigenous leaders want to protect whales by granting them legal personhood
This combination of 2003 and 2006 photos shows a northern spotted owl, left, in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., and a barred owl in East Burke, Vt. Don Ryan Steve Legge/AP hide caption
Dairy cattle feed at a farm on March 31, 2017, near Vado, N.M. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says cows in multiple states have tested positive for bird flu. Rodrigo Abd/AP hide caption
A person in Texas caught bird flu after exposure to cows that were thought to be ill
A researcher holds up a sandy De Winton's golden mole. Nicky Souness/Endangered Wildlife Trust hide caption
Once lost to science, these "uncharismatic" animals are having their moment
This February 2021 photo released by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows a protected gray wolf near Yosemite, Calif. California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP hide caption