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Los Angeles, California-Feb. 6, 2025- U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists found 37 giant live beetles-valued at $1,480-inside the air cargo shipment that had arrived in California from Japan, authorities said this week. (US Customs and Border Protection)

Smuggled live beetles found stashed inside Japanese snacks at LAX, officials say

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists found 37 giant live beetles stashed inside an air cargo shipment that had arrived in California from Japan.

LONG BEACH, CALIF. -- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020: A child interacts with an endangered adult giant sea bass in the Blue Cavern in the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach has partnered with academic institutions and organizations to create a "report card" detailing the conservation story of roughly 30 marine species. The project is an effort to refocus conservation on individual species - which regular people can connect to - while critiquing a modern trend of taking a big-picture ecosystem approach. Many of the species in the report card can be found at the aquarium, which is also involved in helping conserve some of the ones that have declined, including white abalone and bull kelp. Photos taken at Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Long Beach aquarium spotlights ‘real animals, real birds, real fish’ with new report card

The carcass of a 38-foot gray whale washed ashore at Dockweiler State Beach in Los Angeles County this week.

Scientists search for answers after gray whale washes ashore in L.A., bitten and underweight

A fish rescue effort netted 271 fish from Topanga Creek. These were Southern California steelhead trout, the last remaining population in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Nearly 300 trout rescued from Palisades fire burn scar. Their watershed could take a decade to heal

GLENDALE, CA - JANUARY 30, 2025 - Eaton fire evacuee Jonni Miller holds Mr. Thelma in a rental home in Glendale on January 30, 2025. Miller and her husband Anthony Ruffin fled Altadena as fire approached, they grabbed one cat and one dog. But their second cat, Mr. Thelma, couldn't be located and was left behind. Several days later, Anthony and Jonni returned to their home, destroyed in the Eaton fire, and were surprised when Mr. Thelma greeted them. Anthony and Jonni are living with their pets in a rental home in Glendale. Mr. Thelma and the other family pets are still traumatized by the fire. Ruffin and his wife are both skid row social workers who help house the homeless. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Column: Chickens, cats, dogs, goldfish: From the front lines of the fires, stories of survival

Trio of mountain lion cubs rescued at Oakland Zoo after mother was likely struck, killed

Another unwelcome consequence of climate change: an explosion of urban rats

California’s monarch butterfly population plummets; fire wipes out Topanga habitat

A second chance at triplets for Big Bear bald eagles Jackie and Shadow

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MALIBU, CA, JANUARY 17, 2024: Citizen scientists Rebecca Ramirez and Bernard Yin, from left, join federal, state and local agencies including Alyssa Morgan, conservation biologist with the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains, right, to rescue federally endangered tidewater gobies that inhabit the Topanga Lagoon in Malibu and are threatened by effects of the Palisades fire, on Friday, January 17, 2025. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

Climate & Environment

Hundreds of tiny endangered fish saved from Palisades burn area — in the nick of time

More than 750 tidewater gobies were rescued from a Malibu lagoon scorched by the Palisades fire. Seared watersheds can take years to recover, experts say

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