A second yellow-bellied sea snake has washed up on the Coromandel Peninsula. The Department of Conservation (DoC) was alerted to a sea snake at Little Bay in the Coromandel via the DoC hotline.

Yellow-bellied Marmot. By twildlife via Depositphotos. This rotund rodent thrives in the alpine regions of the Sierra Nevada. Yellow-bellied marmots are social creatures, often seen basking on sunlit ...

Among them were two red-eared sliders and one yellow-bellied slider, animals likely introduced by people who had abandoned pets in the lake.