Animals

Bandon police arrested Brian Tenney, owner of West Coast Game Park Safari, on May 27 after officers found drugs, weapons and large amounts of cash at his property.

The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ancient armored fish.

Oregon Humane Society, which runs one of the nation’s only animal forensics centers, served one of the search warrants at the West Coast Game Park Safari on May 15.

A new study by Oregon State University researchers reveals the growing risk climate change poses to the survival of thousands of wild animal species.

Oregon State Police said they are relocating all of the 310 animals from West Coast Game Park Safari in Coos County after finishing a four-day search of the property.

“It can be very easy if you find one of these babies to not see mom and to worry that it might be abandoned, when really she’s just taking her time and is going to come back to them that evening,” said wildlife veterinarian Marcie Logsdon with Washington State University.

Oregon State Police along with local and federal agencies have served multiple search warrants at West Coast Game Park Safari in Bandon.

Chendra, an elephant from northern Borneo in the Malaysian state of Sabah, arrived at the Oregon Zoo in 1999 and has remained in its care ever since.

The cartoonish-looking salamanders have faced an uncertain future in the wild. But researchers hope that breeding axolotls in captivity and releasing them in the wild can help their numbers.

Rockalina was an adult eastern box turtle living in the wild when she was taken into a New York home in 1977. When a reptile rehabilitation center got a hold of her this February, they worried for her survival.