Sammy is a wildlife-loving Environmental Scientist and Conservationist, traveler, photographer, and adventure seeker. She's been all over the US and across the world to study and work with wildlife. She wants to save the world.
Deep within the Congo, a horrific story is unfolding: the dark, illegal, and cruel exotic pet trade is motivating poachers to rip chimp families apart, slaughtering innocent victims one by one. One chimp has survived a recent attack. A tiny, resilient baby chimp named Bunia–injured and traumatized by watching her entire family killed for bushmeat–has […] More
Native Florida species may stand a chance, after all. Biologists noticed some unexpected behavior on trail cam footage recently: A male bobcat was captured in images raiding and destroying an invasive Burmese python’s nest, then batting at the reptile when she returned to protect the brood. The event is believed to be the first ever […] More
An extremely rare lobster was plucked out of the big blue, and it’s probably the fanciest crustacean you’ll ever see. Dubbed “Haddie,” the cotton candy-colored lobster was caught in by a lobsterman in Casco Bay, Maine. Most lobsters are reddish-brown in color, but this particular female was adorned in an iridescent blue and pink shell. […] More
A brave dog was captured on video holding its ground against a pack of wolves. The footage, documented by Abruzzo local Paolo Forconi in southern Italy, shows three tenacious wolves nipping at the pup’s heels as it looks for an escape along a barbed wire fence. The canine — likely a livestock guardian or working […] More
Yes, rainbow pythons do exist. An insanely beautiful reticulated python at California’s Reptile Zoo went viral on social media recently, with reptile enthusiasts going crazy over the snake’s iridescent “rainbow” scales. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Reptile Zoo (@thereptilezoo) The python, named MyLove, was shown on a video […] More
Well, that’s not something you see everyday. A video of a crab in hot pursuit of a — we must say, tenacious crab — surfaced recently. The clip shows a large octopus circling a frantic crab at the water’s surface, repeatedly reaching its arms out to snag it. The agile crab manages to escape the […] More
Don’t you just hate when you wake up to a dying elk on your porch? Charles Zelenka, a long-time Glenwood Springs resident, woke up at 2AM one January morning to a loud banging outside his house. This sort of thing happened from time to time, as wildlife tend to make themselves at home on his […] More
Recently, reports surfaced that a man was swallowed by a feeding whale. The unusual event made many scratch their heads and wonder, “Could you actually be swallowed by a whale?” You’ll be relieved to know that no, you can’t actually be swallowed be a whale — but you could end up in the mouth of […] More
The fossilized remains of a colossal “sea dragon” have been unearthed in the U.K. The 180-million year old ichthyosaur was discovered in England in near perfect condition, and is now considered to be the largest complete ichthyosaur ever found in Britain. Icthyosaurs, which translates to “fish lizards” in Ancient Greek, were warm-blooded, air-breathing marine reptiles […] More
Research has revealed that dire wolves — one of the most well-known predators of the Pleistocene — were not actually wolves at all. Dire wolves were one of the most widespread carnivores of the Ice Age, roaming North America from 250,000 years ago until their demise at the end of the Pleistocene around 13,000 years […] More
Five exquisitely preserved ice-age mammoths were unearthed in the Cotswolds, and paleontology and archeology fanatics around the world are jumping for joy. “Exciting doesn’t cover it. Other mammoths have been found in the UK but not in this state of preservation. They’re in near-pristine condition. You can’t take it in,” said Lisa Westcott Wilkins of […] More
An albino honey badger was discovered on camera trap footage in South Africa, and it’s the first ever scientific record of such an animal. The images were an incidental finding from a camera trap survey at De Hoop Nature Reserve, which was launched to determine the abundance of potential predators that may threaten a newly […] More
