Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an "exceptional natural laboratory" for studying how galaxies evolve.

Staff of nonprofit wildlife rehab center near Menahga, Minnesota, care for abandoned and injured animals in hopes of ...

When a passing driver spotted a barn owl trapped in a barbed wire fence, she called for help from her sister-in-law to rescue ...

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The birds that Levihn-Coon photographed were a mated pair near their nest, he said. One of the owls had a rare reddish-brown, ...

A group got the chance to spot a sea creature off the coast of California, and boaters are calling the experience “amazing.” ...

Sperm whale, the largest toothed sea creature, was sighted off California coast near Monterey Bay, thrilling onlookers with its rare appearance, the group said.

Bestselling novelist Baron Birtcher's Knife River wins the Will Rogers Medallion Award ...

Back in the 1990s, environmental activists sued the U.S. Forest Service over the spotted owl and in the process shut down an entire industry, devastating the economies of rural communities in ...

The numbers of spotted owls continued to plummet. Last August, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service signed off on a controversial Barred Owl Management Strategy that relies on hiring sharpshooters to ...