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The Colorado city of Boulder has recorded a sighting of a North American river otter, a federally endangered species that hasn't been seen in the area for 100 years, according to GrindTV. A motion-sensitive camera captured footage of the animal twice while it fished for food, once on Feb. 26 and again on March 7. The images that have been made available are from the March 7 sighting. The river otter sat in front of the camera for several minutes eating a fish that it had caught. The appearance of the river otter is ...

The iconic New England cottontail rabbit, the inspiration for various stories and songs, could be facing extinction as its Northeast habitat increasingly dwindles, according to NBC News. The Wildlife Management Institute, a non-profit conservation organization, reports that New England cottontail rabbits have lost 80 percent of their habitat over the last 50 years. For survival, New England cottontail rabbits require a habitat of young trees with plenty of grasses, shrubs and brush, i.e. a young or immature forest. But ...

A species of echidna thought to have been wiped from the face of Australia tens of thousands of years ago may still exist on the continent after all, according to LiveScience. What has led to this conclusion? An important specimen that's been sitting ignored in a museum drawer for more than 100 years. Kristofer Helgen, a zoologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., discovered the new-old evidence while visiting the Natural History Museum in London. There he found a well-preserved, well-documented ...