Author: Steven Hill
Camper Killed in Tent By Lightning Strike
Lightning struck a group of back-country campers attending an outdoor skills school in Wyoming near Yellowstone National Park on Tuesday, ki [...]
Scientists Find Strange ‘Gummy Squirrel’ In Deep-Sea
At one end of the biological spectrum are charismatic megafauna, those “flagship species” that inspire the devotion of conservationists and [...]
Video: Connecticut Couple Finds Huge Black Bear In Their Kitchen
Usually when someone encounters a bear on their property, they’re inside a house looking out at a bruin raiding a trash can or bird feeder. [...]
3-Year-Old Boy Gets Rare Virus From Tick Bite
A Pennsylvania toddler is recovering after a tick bite led to a harrowing 4-day stint in the intensive care unit of a children’s hospital, w [...]
Sturgeon Fisherman Breaks ID State Record With Catfish
An Idaho angler fishing for sturgeon set a new state record for channel catfish instead, reeling in a 42.5-inch-long fish at C.J. Strike Res [...]
Man Fights Off Bobcat With His Bare Hands to Save Dog
A Canadian man is recovering from injuries sustained while rescuing his beagle from a bobcat attack in his backyard July 20. Joel Anstett, 3 [...]
Hunters Harassed With Bear Spray in Vermont
A Vermont woman has been charged with assault, disorderly conduct, and interfering with a hunter after allegedly using bear spray on the for [...]
Great White Shark Washes Up on Long Island Beach
A juvenile great white shark that washed up on a Long Island beach last week has been recovered by the New York Department of Environmental [...]
Watch Breaching Whale Slam Fishing Boat
A breaching humpback whale landed on a 19-foot fishing boat in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Sunday, sending the vessel skimming backward acro [...]
Bowfisherman Kills Capybara in Illinois
Bowfishermen have been known to bag all sorts of exotic quarry, but an Illinois sportsman just raised the bar for strangest catch of the yea [...]
Bowfishermen Arrow Huge 271-Pound Alligator Gar in Texas
Gar guide Scott Meshell of South Texas Bowfishing has put clients on longer alligator gar in his career, but he’s never wrangled one heavier [...]
Two Ancient Dwarf Crocodile Species Discovered
Two recently discovered species of ancient dwarf crocodiles were twice as big as their modern-day relatives—and were likely one of the most [...]
Potential Record-Breaking Hammerhead Shark Caught
A half-ton hammerhead was recently caught and released off the South Carolina coast. It would have shattered the state record and may have e [...]
Study: Orcas Are Killing Great Whites to Eat Their Livers
Killer whales are emptying one of South Africa’s top shark-diving destinations of great whites. According to a recent study, two orcas nickn [...]
Massive Wels Catfish Ambush Pigeons in France
Frederic Santoul had been researching wels catfish for nearly a decade when he got a phone call in 2011 from an angler who fishes the Tarn R [...]