A marine science instructor snorkeling off the Southern California coast spotted something out of a fantasy novel: the silvery carcass of an 18-foot-long, serpent-like oarfish.
A nearly two-foot-long alligator living in the pond of a Mount Vernon park has been captured and sent to a reptile rehabilitation preserve in Massachusetts.
The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation says it received several calls about a distressed seal pup Saturday morning. The female pup was struggling against the surf at The Sands, a banquet facility in Atlantic Beach.