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Two hikers became stranded after the rising tide trapped them on a remote beach in California—see footage of the long-line rescue here.

To survive a harrowing ordeal, a missing hiker in the Himalayas ate bugs and drank his own pee. Get the story here.

Scientists hadn’t seen the world’s smallest snake in nearly 20 years, but it wasn’t extinct, just lost. And now, one’s been found.

An animal-control officer in Colorado recently received a lot of love online after rescuing an adorable animal from a glue trap. Watch here.

A PhD candidate recently came across a rare purple creature on the shores of La Jolla, California called a “bubble raft snail.” See it here.

Young Indigenous paddlers have completed the first source-to-sea descent of the Klamath River since the removal of four dams.

Rescue crews found a missing 19-year-old surfer on an uninhabited island off the coast of Australia. Get the incredible story here.

When one man stumbled upon two wild horses stuck neck deep in concrete-like mud, he couldn’t leave them to die. So, he dug them out.

A couple has finished visiting all of the U.S. national parks—in the same year they both turned 70 years old.