Animal control helps deer with head stuck in plastic pumpkin

A deer got its head stuck in a plastic pumpkin, but luckily, it had two friendly animal control officers come to its rescue.

Crews vacuum ‘murder hornets’ out of Washington nest

Heavily protected crews in Washington state worked Saturday to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the United States.

NASA astronauts cast 2020 election votes from space

With the COVID-19 pandemic increasing the amount of absentee ballots for the 2020 election, NASA is proving nowhere is too far to exercise your right to vote. 

Raccoons break into Redwood City bank

A man using the ATM machine spotted the fur-masked intruders before the bank was open.

Northern lights dance across Norwegian sky in stunning timelapse video

The mesmerizing display was captured Oct. 19 in a timelapse video by British photographer Matt Robinson on the island of Senja in Norway.

Celestial Treat: Rare Halloween blue moon to light up the sky

2020 has already proven to be an unusual year, and this October’s showing to be no exception with a rare Halloween blue moon to illuminate the night sky.

12-year-old boy finds 69 million-year-old dinosaur fossil during hike with his dad

Twelve-year-old Nathan wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up, and he's already made what experts are calling a "significant" dinosaur discovery.

Laboratory tags record number of sharks off California coast

The Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach, tagged 38 sharks, which is more than triple the number tagged tag last year.

Video shows mountain lion roaming San Mateo backyard

A resident spotted the big cat about 6:45 a.m. Saturday on a backyard deck in the 4100 block of Alameda de las Pulgas.

Los Angeles man arrested in theft of lemur from San Francisco Zoo

The endangered and elderly lemur was discovered missing Wednesday morning from the Lipman Family Lemur Forest in the San Francisco Zoo.

Ring-tailed lemur presumed stolen from San Francisco Zoo

An endangered male ring-tailed lemur was discovered missing from the San Francisco Zoo Wednesday morning.