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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with scientist Alejandra Ramos, who just led a study about axolotls born in captivity who were released into the wild and survived.

a baby girl, born at sea on an overcrowded rubber dinghy, has been rescued with her mother.

The United States now has its own pygmy hippo baby to compete with the cute viral hippo babies born in other countries recently.

Monday marked one year since the war between Israel and Hamas began. It was also a day that saw some of the most intense strikes in Gaza in the last year.

On Wednesday, Britain's top court clarified the legal definition of a woman: Someone born biologically female. The ruling has implications for transgender rights.

Yoko the swell shark was born in a habitat of all-female sharks who hadn't seen a male in years. The aquarium has two possible explanations — and hopes to get confirmation in the coming months.

Vice President Harris has spent the past two Sundays in Black churches, a time-honored election season tradition for Democrats.

Black-footed ferrets are one of the most endangered mammals in North America with only an estimated 370 in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

California’s final manual snow survey of the season found no measurable snow at Phillips Station, marking the second-lowest reading on record for the site.

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo announced their own tiny pygmy hippo, named Haggis, was born Oct. 30. The newborn, female calf is "doing well," according to zoo staff.

A cloned ferret has given birth to her own kits -- what could this mean for the future of endangered species?

There's an outbreak of the rare mosquito-borne disease Eastern Equine Encephalitis in the Northeast. Could it be connected to climate change? No one knows.