Fish’s Enormous Eye Pleads for Help as Deputy Races to Save His Life
He got the second chance he needed. In a remarkable rescue earlier this month, a sunfish found itself in a life-threatening situation when it became trapped between a seawall and…
Grumpy’ Opossum Caught Red-Handed After Devouring an Entire Cake Solo
Turns out, stuffing her face with cake may actually have saved her life. Earlier this week, an unexpected patient arrived at the Nebraska Wildlife Rehab veterinary clinic—a wild opossum with…
Woman Looks Inside a Hollow Tree — and Finds 11 Tiny Faces Staring Back
In the hollow of a tree trunk, 11 tiny puppies huddled together, waiting for their mother to return. The Missouri air was cold, and their little bellies rumbled with hunger.…
Snowy Paw Prints Lead Woman to Days-Old Abandoned Puppies
The mama kept her babies safe ❤️ Last month, a record-breaking snowstorm swept through Texas, bringing freezing temperatures and unexpected challenges. Amid the chaos, Mayra Luna, a dog trainer, received…
Hidden Gem’ Shelter Dog Puzzled Why No One Ever Wants to Meet Him
In the very last kennel at the Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter, a gray-and-white dog named Bernie gazes out at visitors every day, hoping that someone will notice him. For…
Leslie Bibb Teaches Her Dodo Dream Date How To Practice Self-Care
“This might be the best first date I’ve ever had.” Before meeting her Dodo Dream Date for the first time, Leslie Bibb was feeling a bit nervous. She wasn’t sure…
Do other animals kiss?
Kissing is a multifaceted and emotionally loaded behavior. Do other animals do it, too? Kissing plays a significant role in human culture, with ancient cuneiform tablets from Iraq indicating that…
Enormous Male Great White Shark Tagged and Released off Florida Coast in Stunning New Video
Researchers have tagged a massive great white shark off the East Coast of the U.S., which they say is the largest male they’ve ever studied in the northwest Atlantic. Named…
Can Animals Understand and Learn the Language of Another Species?
Each year, new insights emerge about the ways animals communicate. Research reveals that elephants greet each other with ear flapping and rumbling sounds, sperm whales modify their clicks based on…
Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida’s past
About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida’s Big Bend region and died. The sinkhole filled in with sediment over time,…