The Illinois Department of Natural Resources had a huge shock while fighting a potential black carp upstream range expansion in the Illinois River. It turns out they didn't see a single black carp in their efforts to take them out, but the IDNR reports that they did end up removing 70,239 pounds of ...

No matter how many state record fish contenders pop up, it never gets old seeing the potentially new top dog (fish) that's trying to take the place of the current champ. Ryan Povolish is a new contender for a state-record crappie in Illinois after he caught a 4 pound, 8.8 ounce crappie that ...

An interesting case from 1937 involving two commercial fishermen, Herbert Cope and Dodge Collins, of Alton, Illinois, says the two men caught a bull shark in the Mississippi River. That's right. These two men caught a 5-foot, 84-pound bull shark that managed to swim 1,750 miles up the river. ...

Every other animal crossing sign has now been put on alert. The "suicidal deer" sign has raised the bar for alerting drivers to potential kamikaze wildlife. According to the Sun Times Network, a sign that reads “suicidal deer” was placed on a rural road in Paxton by the Button Township Highway ...