Animals

More than 350,000 Atlantic sturgeon once migrated to the Delaware River, but now, there are fewer than 250 adults. A caviar rush depleted stocks in the late 1800s.

Authorities in Pennsylvania say a man has died after his pet boa constrictor wrapped itself around his neck.

Possible factors in the decline include loss of habitat, weather patterns, predators, and disease.

Calls from animal welfare rescue orgs seeking adopters, fosters, and donations have grown louder in recent weeks. But the number of pets entering the shelter hasn’t abated.

Delaware’s Center for the Inland Bays brings volunteers each spring to count, catch, and tag horseshoe crabs, in order to track their population levels.

Judge Boasberg ruled the government has violated both the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act by failing to protect the North Atlantic right whale.

New cases of avian influenza haven’t been detected in Pa. for more than a month, but that doesn’t mean the threat to poultry and wild birds has passed.

As many Americans travel July Fourth weekend, we talk about inflation and the economy. Plus, a local scientist has discovered more lizards than any other living researcher.

Rutgers researchers are on a mission to recruit “citizen scientists” as part of NJ Ticks 4 Science.

They are finding that several animals like to make a meal out of the pests.

Haechan the pudu came to the Brandywine Zoo just six months ago in hopes of mating as part of the Species Survival Plan Program.

Not seen on the Delmarva peninsula in 27 years, the endangered Hessel’s Hairstreak butterfly reveals itself in a Delaware swamp.

A new mental health hotline expected to roll out; carriage horse protesters back on the street; we remember Dr. Fred Simeone who passed away at the age of 86.

A life-size sculpture of a Parasaurolophus decorated with Lenni Lenape beadwork is the first permanent sculpture introduced by the Navy Yard’s developer.

Philly residents found the underweight horse wandering around after the man who bought him abandoned him a few hours later.