'Still hard to believe': Moorhead teen hooks a billfold full of money on Lake of the Woods (www.inforum.com)
A flightless parrot is returning to mainland New Zealand after a 40-year absence (www.popsci.com)
The adorable Kākāpō birds were hunted to the brink of extinction.
Watch: Police Officer Nearly Gored While Freeing Bull Elk from Swing (www.outdoorlife.com)
Dog chases bear away from where Connecticut toddler was playing (www.upi.com)
Raccoon rescued from mayo jar in Florida neighborhood (www.upi.com)
A video of the rescue shows the trio chasing the raccoon through a street before managing to get a catch pole around its neck. The jar is then carefully removed.
In California, wildfires are prevented by crews of unlikely firefighters: goats (www.npr.org)
'Cuddling' is just what the doctor ordered for a 200-pound walrus calf rescued this week in Alaska (apnews.com)
A surprise piano spurs music in a park. Because nobody wants a piano in the house anymore (www.latimes.com)
Family adopts abandoned babies, learns years later they’re biological siblings (www.washingtonpost.com)
‘I wasn’t at all expecting my brother, who I had lived with for my entire life, to be my biological brother,’ said Vicky Laffin, 19, about her brother Frank, 20.