08 Animal / Environment

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1st. Spenser Hasak / The Daily Item

Flora Peach rides Pippin the pony around her family’s Marblehead home as her dog, Rosie, looks on from the couch.

2nd. Leanna Puccio / Freelance

A Double Crested Cormorant aims to catch a minnow tossed from its beak on the Cape Cod Canal in Sandwich, MA on August 19, 2025.

3rd. Libby O’Neill / Freelance

A sheep rests on a bed of its own wool after being sheared for the season in Berlin Vermont, May 6.

HM 1. Spenser Hasak / The Daily Item

A lobster flies back into the ocean after being freed by lobster trapper Susan Michaud, of Marblehead.

HM 2. Ben Pennington / Freelance

Quincy, MA – 11/20/2025: A caregiver holds a sea turtle’s head in an exam room at the New England Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital on Thursday, Nov. 20, in Quincy. The aquarium is treating over 200 cold-stunned hypothermic sea turtles that have washed ashore on Massachusetts beaches as temperatures have dropped.