Teacher Sees Hairless Dog Wandering By School And Decides To Change His Life
You’ll never believe what he looks like now … When teacher Aaron Tanguma got a message from a coworker about a strange, hairless dog hiding in the outdoor bathroom at…
Woman Tries To Help Giant Bird Standing In Street — And He Follows Her Home
“My brain said, ‘Nope, this isn’t really happening.’” Judie Schwager never expected her quiet Chicago suburb to feel like a scene out of Jurassic Park. One afternoon, she heard a…
Man Pries Open Drain And Saves Thumb-Sized Baby Trapped Inside
Wildlife rescuer Keith Porteous, known online as The Wildlife Rescuer, recently answered a distress call about a tiny bird in big trouble — a chick trapped inside a drainpipe. When…
Chimps drinking a lager a day in ripe fruit, study finds
Wild chimpanzees may be consuming the equivalent of a bottle of beer a day — not from breweries, but from feasting on naturally fermented fruit, researchers have discovered. The study…
Escaped monkey who ‘went for a stroll’ is home safe
Residents of Buncrana, County Donegal, got a surprise visitor at the pier this week when a capuchin monkey named Joey was spotted perched on a fence near the harbour. Joey,…
Cost of vet bills causing pet owner sleepless nights
A Northamptonshire pet owner says the soaring costs of caring for her animals have left her with “sleepless nights” over how she would afford treatment if they became unwell. Alison…
No sign of missing pony foals in eagle nests after ‘snatching’ claim
Scotland’s environment watchdog has reported no evidence linking sea eagles to the disappearance of Shetland pony foals on South Uist, despite concerns raised by a local crofter. Farmer Donald John…
Oldest-known dome-headed dinosaur discovered sticking out of a cliff in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert
The juvenile pachycephalosaurs, which predates the previous oldest dome-headed dinosaur by 15 million years, reveals more about how and when this unusual feature developed. Paleontologists working in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert…
‘Rare’ ancestor reveals how huge flightless birds made it to faraway lands
The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved. Ostriches in Africa, emus in Australia, rheas in South America, and…
How the mystery origins of hairy little Yakutian horses were uncovered in Siberia’s ‘gateway to the underworld’
In 2018, a perfectly-preserved foal was pulled from the permafrost in Siberia. It’s discovery, along with another horse from the Batagay crater, paved the way for scientists to solve the…