Hurricanes feel like they’ve been getting stronger recently, with several devastating storms wreaking havoc one after the other. But could natural disasters get much worse? According to one theory, what we’ve seen this year is nothing compared to “hypercanes” — a doomsday scenario that seems to come straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster. What’s a […] More
Twenty-five percent of primates in Uganda’s Kibale National Park have a severe physical deformity of some kind, and researchers believe pesticides are to blame. Researchers working in the northern area of the park noticed that chimpanzees and baboons in the region had flattened noses, cleft lip, abnormal or absent nostrils, patchy fur, and concave faces. […] More
70M year old dinosaur skeleton has been found in Tanzania! Shingopana (Swahili – wide neck) Songwensis. Glad they gave it an African name ❤️ pic.twitter.com/bcvvv4iDAr — Ulrich J van Vuuren (@UlrichJvV) August 29, 2017 A new species of titanosaur has been unveiled in southwest Tanzania. The titanosaur, named Shingopana songwensis, existed in the Cretacious Period — some […] More
Just when you thought nothing could be more adorable than a cuddly black and white panda, it turns out that there are brown pandas too. Spotted only in the Qinling Mountains in China, they are part of a subspecies of giant panda that have smaller skulls and larger molar teeth. The fuzzy brown and white […] More
Animals are hilarious, and we have the GIFs to prove it. “I’ll be needing this.” We’re not sure if he’s scratching his back or trying to move the tire with his mind. No comment necessary. Dachshund versus crab: Almost… I will have the coconut. Role reversal #themeowlife #cats #chase #kittens #chipmunks #funnyanimals pic.twitter.com/qsz6BJqj34 — meowbox […] More
Climate change is shaping the Earth in new and often devastating ways as the planet heats up more rapidly than ever. For animals, warming temperatures mean they’ll be forced to find new homes as their current habitats become unlivable. But these mass movements can be hard to visualize — that is, until you’ve seen this […] More
A heroic elephant swooped in to rescue a calf that lost its footing and was being pulled down the river. A herd of elephants was crossing a rain-swollen river in Ol Pajeta Conservancy in Kenya when the calf was swept away. Uploader Sandy Gelderman said, “It had been raining, so the river was flowing fast. Our […] More
Images: Koos Fourie/Caters News This is the story of the heart-stopping moment a warthog mother had her baby snatched by a hungry leopard and how the heroic mother did something amazing to save her piglet. Using its noted stealth ability, the leopard silently stalked a group of warthogs, going completely unnoticed until the moment it […] More
Image: John Holmes A flock of “drunken” starlings apparently caused quite a fiasco on a busy motorway recently, according to The Local. Motorists were extremely confused when birds randomly started crashing into their cars and falling onto the A2 motorway between Inzersdorf and Vösendorf in Austria. Because there were so many birds on the road, […] More
Image: Ianaré Sévi Endangered key deer have a gruesome new problem: They’re infested with invasive screwworms, a species that hasn’t been seen in the United States for over 50 years. Staff at National Key Deer Refuge recently found deer infested with maggots of New World screwworm larvae that had previously been eradicated from the US in […] More
An amazing escape! A surprise visitor literally jumped into the boat of a family out of the coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. In an amazing video recently uploaded to YouTube we see a seal jump into the boat to escape a pod of orcas pursuing close behind. The video shows two large […] More
