I always get really emotional when the pebbles go in,” said Rebecca Parr, who works for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.

Doctors urge parents to vaccinate as RSV and flu cases rise across West Michigan, with hospitalizations climbing at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital.

The Kent Co. Health Department, in partnership with MDHHS, confirmed the county's first pediatric flu death of the 2025-26 season, and the third in Michigan.

Penguins at Edinburgh Zoo pick through coloured pebbles painted by children at a local hospital to mark start of the breeding season, when penguins often use pebbles to build nests for their families.