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Ravensbeard Wildlife Center Director and founder Ellen Kalish holds a Saw-whet owl at their facility in Saugerties, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. A worker helping to get the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York City found the tiny owl among the tree's massive branches on Monday, Nov. 16.

The owl found in the Rockefeller Christmas tree has returned to the wild

Dale, a 3-year-old cat who was burned after seeking warmth in a car engine, is looking for his owner or a new home.

A cat who was burned after seeking warmth against a car engine is looking for his owner, or a new home

Stoneham police warn residents of aggressive coyote

Truro officials rescue ‘extremely rare’ 350-pound loggerhead turtle November 22, 2020 | 8:48 PM

Lobster industry hopes for stability after tumultuous Trump era November 22, 2020 | 11:00 AM

Hippo

FRANKLIN PARK HIPPO

Want to name the new Franklin Park Zoo hippo? Be prepared to pay up. November 20, 2020 | 2:33 PM

Cold weather brings surge in cold-stunned sea turtles on Cape November 20, 2020 | 8:59 AM

An 'extremely unusual' shark sighting on Cape Cod was caught on camera November 19, 2020 | 12:54 PM

In this photo provided by the Ravensbeard Wildlife Center, Ravensbeard Director and founder Ellen Kalish holds a Saw-whet owl at the center in Saugerties, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. A worker helping to get the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York City found the tiny owl among the tree's massive branches on Monday, Nov. 16. Now named Rockefeller, the owl was brought to the Ravensbeard Wildlife Center for care. (Lindsay Possumato/Ravensbeard Wildlife Center via AP)

Tiny owl discovered in Rockefeller Center Christmas tree November 18, 2020 | 10:27 PM

Photos: 100+ spotlight-worthy 'presidential' pets from readers November 18, 2020 | 1:52 PM

A N.H. woman lost her dog last Thanksgiving in Missouri. They were just reunited. November 16, 2020 | 2:54 PM

Belgian racing pigeon sold for record price of $1.9 million November 15, 2020 | 12:00 PM

Joe Biden adopted a German shepherd named Major from the Delaware Humane Association in 2018. MUST CREDIT: Delaware Humane Association handout photo)

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Send us a photo of your pet who deserves a spotlight just as much as Champ and Major Biden November 13, 2020 | 4:12 PM

Sven Spichiger, the managing entomologist at the Washington state Department of Agriculture, displays a canister of Asian giant hornets vacuumed from a nest in a tree behind him in Blaine, Wash., in October.

'Murder hornets'

A nest filled with hundreds of 'murder hornets' was destroyed 'just in the nick of time,' officials say November 12, 2020 | 11:12 AM

Essie the Esplanade duck and her geese friends.

'Wayward' white duck that befriended Esplanade geese up for adoption November 12, 2020 | 5:00 AM

This Nov. 5, 2020 photo provided by Ariel Cordova-Rojas shows her riding in a car with Bae, a female mute swan, after the swan was rescued in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, in the Queens borough of New York. Cordova-Rojas was assisted by a couple with a car who agreed to drive the swan and Cordova-Rojas to a nearby subway station. Later an employee of the Wild Bird Rescue met them at another subway station for transport to the organization's clinic on New York's Upper West Side. (Ariel Cordova-Rojas via AP)

NYC woman gets ill swan to clinic via foot, car, and subway November 11, 2020 | 2:18 PM

In this June 28, 2020 image provided by Mount Washington Observatory, Marty the cat walks on a boulder outside the Mount Washington Observatory in North Conway, N.H.

Cat at Mount Washington Observatory dies after 12 years on duty November 9, 2020 | 6:27 PM

Cold-stunned sea turtles rescued along Cape Cod November 7, 2020 | 10:56 AM

'I am literally looking inside the whale’s mouth' November 6, 2020 | 3:48 PM

A mink is photographed in a farm in Hjoerring, in North Jutland, Denmark, on October 8, 2020. - Denmark will cull the entire 15 million mink farmed on its territory because of a mutation of coronavirus Covid-19 already transmitted to 12 people, which threatens the effectiveness of a future vaccine for humans, as Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced on November 4, 2020. (Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP) / Denmark OUT (Photo by MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)

Denmark wants to cull 15 million minks over COVID fears November 5, 2020 | 11:29 AM

$1,000 reward offered for return of goat missing from Norton animal sanctuary October 26, 2020 | 7:46 PM

Hawk found injured along roadway in Worcester rescued by Massachusetts State Police.

Watch: Injured hawk captured by state police along roadway in Worcester October 24, 2020 | 12:33 PM

AP FACT CHECK: Trump and Biden in their last clash on stage October 24, 2020 | 7:51 AM

A photo provided by the Washington State Department of Agriculture shows an Asian giant hornet with a radio tracker attached. officials in Washington State announced on Friday that they had located the first murder hornet nest in the United States, tucked in a tree hollow near the Canadian border in Blaine, Wash. (Washington State Department of Agriculture via The New York Times) -- FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. --

Murder Hornet nest, first in U.S., is found in Washington state October 24, 2020 | 7:49 AM

A cat staying with the Animal Rescue League of Boston.

Animal Rescue League offers temporary housing for pets after end of state's eviction moratorium October 23, 2020 | 4:37 PM

A live Asian giant hornet with a tracking device affixed to it sits on an apple in a tree near Blaine, Wash.

Scientists plan to mount an attack Saturday on the first 'murder hornet' nest found in U.S. October 23, 2020 | 2:43 PM

Western lowland gorilla baby rests in incubator shortly after birth.

Baby male gorilla born at Franklin Park Zoo October 20, 2020 | 9:23 PM

In this file photo, adult and juvenile rats emerge from under a Fenway dumpster.

Boston ranked 13th 'rattiest' city in America, and officials predict it’s only getting worse October 18, 2020 | 11:40 PM

'Big pile' of eels dumped in NYC park; impact not yet known October 17, 2020 | 10:09 AM

'There's a lemur!' 5-year-old helps crack SF Zoo theft case October 17, 2020 | 8:18 AM

shark predation off Provincetown

Watch: Shark chows down on seal in shallow water off Cape Cod beach October 16, 2020 | 10:07 AM

The pygmy hippo calf is 13 pounds. It is very small.

Video: See Franklin Park Zoo's new baby pygmy hippo October 14, 2020 | 9:11 PM

Ocean sunfish.

'PLEASE STOP CALLING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ABOUT THIS SUNFISH!!' October 13, 2020 | 2:48 PM