A bald eagle was shot on Thanksgiving and later taken to a Navarre wildlife sanctuary. The eagle died, but the sanctuary is working to save others.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animals had no trouble grabbing headlines in 2025, from a close encounter with a whale off the coast of Chile to viral bald eagles and a car crash blamed on an airborne cicada.

Fresh snow blanketed the ground and the temperature hovered around 20 degrees when Will Richardson stepped from his heated vehicle to walk onto Lake Forest Beach on Lake Tahoe’s east shore.