Eggs are being confiscated at the U.S. border with Mexico amid a bird flu outbreak that has depleted chicken populations.

Snowball, a 21-year-old albino alligator at the Newport Aquarium, has died. The aquarium announced the rare alligator's passing on social media Tuesday but did not state a cause of death.

Alligators brumate in the winter — the equivalent of mammal hibernation — which can last from November to February, according ...