A litter of six red wolf pups, a highly endangered species, was born at the Great Plains Zoo in South Dakota, the zoo announced Thursday.The red wolf species, one of two wolf species in North America, has a dangerously small population size and is listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List. The red wolf is "critically endangered," which is the stage before "extinct in the wild," and its numbers are expected to conti…
Read moreWalt Disney Pictures on Tuesday released a trailer for its new film Peter Pan & Wendy, featuring Alyssa Wapanatâhk (Bigstone Cree Nation).In the new live-action update of the 1953 animated classic, Wapanatâhk plays Tiger Lily, a warrior princess of Neverland’s Indigenous tribe and the daughter of the tribe’s chief. The filmmakers said they went to great lengths to ensure the authenticity and properly appropriate how the Indigenous tribe was depicted in Peter Pan & W…
Read moreCoyotes are known as clever and vicious wild animals, but photographer Pamela Underhill Karaz, who lives in a rural area in upstate New York, captured images of a coyote that prove they’re not all that different from the dogs we live with and love. One morning Underhill Karaz spotted this wild coyote in her yard. “[He] picked it up then proceeded to toss it up in the air and play with it, just like a dog would toss a toy around,” she told Mother Nature Network. “It lasted per…
Read moreIn this photo provided by Sacred Way Sanctuary, He Stalks One spends time with a horse in Alabama in 2021. These horses are the descendants of those that accompanied the Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee, Chickasaw and Seminole Peoples on forced removals, referred to as the "Trail of Tears.” In a study published Thursday, March 30, 2023, in the journalScience, a new analysis of horse bones gathered from museums across the Great Plains and northern Rockies has revealed that ho…
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