US wildlife officials finalized about 1.5 million acres of critical habitat in six states for the rusty patched bumble bee, the first US bee listed as endangered.

Leah Wilson freed a young crow trapped in a roof gutter on Canada's West Coast, and the local crows have brought her small gifts on her walks ever since.

A coyote pup found covered nose to tail in cactus spines in Surprise, Arizona, recovered after a wildlife team spent more than two hours carefully freeing him.