Eva relaxes in a puddle in 2020. Erin Wilson hide caption
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Christian Cooper watches distant shorebirds at the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge in California. The National Geographic channel has announced that Cooper will host a series called Extraordinary Birder. Cooper was in the spotlight after a woman in New York City's Central Park called the police and falsely accused him of threatening her in May 2020. Jon Kroll/National Geographic hide caption
Bronx Zoo elephant Happy strolls inside the zoo's Asia habitat in New York in 2018. Bebeto Matthews/AP hide caption
Jersey is a one-year-old female mixed breed. She is available for adoption at the Pike County Animal Shelter. Maggie Epling/Maggie Epling hide caption
Sarah Peper, Missouri Department of Conservation Fisheries Management Biologist, downloads fish tracking data on the Mississippi River in West Alton, Mo. Brian Munoz/St. Louis Public Radio hide caption
It is still partially a mystery how Nala, a lost dog, was able to get into the house of Julie and Jimmy Johnson and climb her way into their bed overnight. Julie Johnson hide caption
Msituni, a giraffe calf born with an unusual disorder that caused her legs to bend the wrong way, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego, on Feb. 10. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance via AP hide caption
Actor James Cromwell in 2018 at the Los Angeles premiere of "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom." Chris Pizzello/Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption
Patron poses at an award ceremony in Kyiv, Ukraine on Sunday. The Jack Russell terrier is credited with detecting more than 200 Russian explosive devices since the start of the war. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption
This species of dragonfish can grow to just under 7 inches long and can be often found 1,000 feet or more below the ocean's surface. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Fans cheers during race five before the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption
Researchers estimate there are only about 10 vaquita porpoises still living in Mexico's Gulf of California. Semarnat/Flickr hide caption
A juvenile California condor flies from a shelf to a branch in the condor reintroduction pen of the Redwood National Park near Orick, Calif., on April 12. Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File hide caption
A wild fox killed 25 American flamingos and one Northern pintail duck, announced the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute hide caption
A beaver throws some twigs on top of his dam as his partner eats some grass near the shore. Taken in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Getty Images hide caption
Satellite imagery from Friday appears to show dolphin pens at the entrance to Sevastopol's harbor. The naval base there is important to the Russian military because of its proximity to the Crimean Peninsula. Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies hide caption
A Colorado inmate involved in the culling of poultry at a farm as part of a pre-release program has the first human case of avian flu in the United States. Here, cage-free chickens walk in a fenced pasture at an organic farm near Waukon, Iowa, in October 2015. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption
A border collie in northern England chases after a flock of sheep to herd them. A new study finds that only about 9% of the variation in an individual dog's behavior can be explained by its breed. Edwin Remsberg/Getty Images hide caption
Cary Elwes, shown here in 2019, says he is recovering from a snake bite. Rich Polk/Getty Images for IMDb hide caption
Apply now to work at the British base in Port Lockroy, Antarctica, and young Gentoo penguins like this one could be your Goudier Island neighbors. Alison Wright/Getty Images hide caption
Red wolves have been on the brink of extinction since the 1970s. The new six-pup litter gives conservationists a sense of hope for the future of the species. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services hide caption
A Ukrainian pyrotechnic squad works alongside Patron, a bomb-sniffing dog. State Emergency Service of Ukraine hide caption
Taylor Swift, pictured in 2021, is the inspiration for the name of the newly described Twisted-Claw Millipede, Nannaria swiftae. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images; Dr. Derek Hennen/Pensoft Publishers hide caption