animals

It's that time of the summer when people who love fireworks revel in lighting up the night sky — and people with pets sensitive to the loud booms fret over how to handle their anxious animals.

When a school in West Carrollton was slated for demolition, two dozen box turtles living in the school courtyard needed a new home. They've been bunking at the Cincinnati Zoo.

New research out of the University of Toledo shows that invasive goldfish can alter entire ecosystems and decrease water quality.

More than 44% of ticks submitted to Buckeye Tick Test in the last year came from people's own yards, with another 12.5% found while walking in neighborhoods.

The annual festival attracts around 80,000 visitors to Northwest Ohio each spring to witness the warbler migration.

Thomas More University is researching the endangered 'snot otters' with an eye toward helping them make a comeback.

Ohio Department of Natural Resources' longest running survey, The Furbearer Roadkill Survey, tracks populations of small game mammals.

Two peregrine falcons nested in a specially made box outside a window at the Mercantile Library for several years. Last year, they had to move due to construction.

As cleanup efforts at Fernald were wrapping up 21 years ago, WVXU's Tana Weingartner visited the site to see how one particular indicator species was doing. It would help scientists to know if the site was healing from its Cold War-era scars. She returned this spring to see what's changed.

Here's how you can get an up-close view of baby bald eagles in two nests in Greater Cincinnati.