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Flooding is a normal part of life for many plants that grow in the floodplains and dunes of Vermont. But this year's floods were different.

A few weeks ago, a woman in Tunbridge spotted a pig in her yard that didn't belong there.

A small, unassuming flower called sticky false asphodel is likely carnivorous. It鈥檚 in a whole new lineage of carnivorous plants, unrelated to any others previously documented.

Over some 20 years, researchers in Vermont and across the country went out with trappers to look at how effective different types of traps are, and how often animals are injured in the process. From those findings, wildlife managers came up with a set of best management practices to minimize injuries and incidental take.

Last Friday, Owen Montgomery spent the day in a helicopter, flying over Burlington and surrounding towns and dropping thousands of packets of frozen rabies vaccines.

Host Mikaela Lefrak talks with exotic pet owners and a veterinarian who treats pets ranging from snakes to hamsters.

In more than half of U.S. states, wildlife have tested positive for COVID-19, according to data from the USDA. Millions of dollars in federal money have gone toward testing animals like mink, ferrets and deer 鈥� species that can pass the virus to humans. Vermont is running its own study.

Penguins had a massive ancestor. That鈥檚 according to a team of scientists that unearthed a penguin fossil and says it belonged to a roughly 350-pound bird.

When a hunter kills a moose in Vermont, they have to bring the animal to a check station in Island Pond. Biologists use the information they collect to understand how the animals are faring. But it鈥檚 not just hunters who stop by 鈥� for the Essex County town, moose inspection is a spectacle.

Earlier this month nearly 50 volunteers armed with rakes and large pruning tools gathered for the annual spiny softshell turtle beach clean up day. The conservation effort, organized by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, helps ready the beach for hatching baby turtles.