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A solo hiker went missing in Norway for nearly a week. He survived after a clue that his wife found helped search crews locate him.

Wildlife officials finally found and freed a bear that’s been wandering around Wisconsin with a jar stuck on its head.

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.