zoology

JOHNSONBURG — Despite a elusive trail and hours spent tracking, Paul Costanzo’s unwavering resilience enabled him to to find and submit a 30.2 pound m...

ST MARYS — Since its initiation at Big Maple Family Farm earlier this year, the activity of “lamb snuggling” has taken the Elk County area by storm. R...

BENEZETTE — Among the free educational programs offered at the Elk Country Visitor Center each weekend will be a seminar on a popular outdoor activity...

In escalating the fight against chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer, the Pennsylvania Game Commission could soon be using dogs to sniff out t...

VALENTINE: Are you looking for a wild way to say you care this Valentine’s Day? The Pennsylvania Game Commission has just the thing — free, printable ...

Perhaps we can blame COVID fatigue for numbing us to the risks of other viruses. But it should be bigger news that a bird flu has mutated to spread th...

The alarm jarred me out of sleep at 5:15 a.m. What in the world? My weary mind struggled out of the delicious coils of deep slumber, and then it hit m...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Populations of various species of aquatic insects and other invertebrates respond to flooding and waterway drying due to drought in ...

DUKE CENTER — On a night where the Otto-Eldred girls basketball team recognized its six graduating seniors that helped turn the program into a powerho...

LANCASTER (TNS) — Cases of the highly contagious strain of avian influenza continue to affect poultry flocks in central Pennsylvania. The U.S. Departm...

The days of applying for antlerless deer licenses with a pink envelope may soon be over. The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners met on Saturday ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission and Ducks Unlimited (DU) have partnered to improve 1,600 acres of wetland habitats on 61 state game lands across Penn...

Each year thousands of people head to Punxsutawney to take the chance that a prognosticating rodent will not see his shadow, predicting an end to wint...

Christmas is always a special time when our family gets together to enjoy the holidays. Cramming everyone into the same house is exhilarating and stre...

If you are one of those people who always has a hard time choosing a Valentine’s Day gift in preparation for the February 14 holiday, you are not alon...

LIST : Pennsylvania Outdoor columnist Brian Whipkey has written about eight places to explore in Pennsylvania’s great outdoors. We started off with fo...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Joe Cool’s calm demeanor for the Cincinnati Bengals melted on a frigid night against the Kansas City Chiefs. The brilliant Ben...

RIDGWAY — Big Maple Family Farm in Ridgway “had a little lamb.” Actually, there are a few little lambs, who are currently available for a good snuggle...

BEWARE RODENTS. Pest control experts from The Pest Dude released a warning to Pennsylvania homeowners: rats are predicted to “plague Pa. homes in the ...

JOHNSONBURG — Jim Pennington, Jr., president of the Rolfe Beagle Club, announced that the club will once again offer its popular Coyote and Fox Hunt o...