Now thanks to the Woodland Park Zoo, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the Western Pond Turtle Recovery Project, there's a few more of these wee turtles in the wild. more ›

The giant Palouse earthworm was thought to be extinct until a few sightings over the past decade, including the above specimen found by University of Idaho grad student Yaniria Sanchez-de Leon in 2005. Only native to the Palouse prairie region of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, this white wriggler can grow up to three feet long (yowza!) and supposedly smells like lilies (delicious!). more ›

This weekend, the carcasses of six sea lions were found shot to death in traps on the Columbia River. Now investigators from local law enforcement and Oregon and Washington's Departments of Fisheries are looking for the sea lions' executioner. more ›