Category: animals

Video: Man Builds Tall Fence to Keep His ‘Airborne’ Dog in the Yard, but the Plan Backfires

Keen to prevent his youngest dog from escaping the yard, a man built a tall fence around his Kentucky home to keep her in. But the plan backfired; the dog made light work of the wooden perimeter, and her funny acrobatics have made her a social media sensation. “I built the fence when I moved…


VIDEOS: Diver Captures ‘Insane’ Moment 20 Whale Sharks in Feeding Frenzy Gulp Plankton Beside Boat

One lucky photographer, Martin Strmiska, 41, who spends time photographing underwater paradises in the Maldives, captured the sight of a lifetime—a sight even experienced divers rarely witness. While on an excursion diving with tourists last year, at around 10 or 11 p.m., they witnessed a feeding frenzy of approximately 20 whale sharks beside their boat….


Researchers Find Fossilized Egg Containing Remains of World’s Most Complete Baby Dinosaur Embryo

A fossilized egg has been found to contain the remains of the world’s most complete baby dinosaur just before hatching. The exquisitely preserved embryo was “lying like a bird” in a distinctive tucking posture. It died about 70 million years ago—and was about to hatch. The head is below the body, with the feet on…


60-Year-Old in Hospital Separated From Beloved Dog—Until Kind Nurse Adopts Him, Reunites Them Before Christmas

Christmas arrived early for one Rome resident in New York who, falling ill, was separated from his four-legged best friend, Boomer—but they were reunited thanks to the kindness of a local nurse who went beyond the call of duty. The ailing 60-year-old, John Burley, had been taken to the hospital just before Thanksgiving. Unable to…


Farmers Sound Warning Amid Sharp Rise in Animal Feed Prices

Amateur farmer Dottie Overland’s pigs get bigger and tastier every day, but her family may never get a chance to eat them. With the cost of farm feed rising to unprecedented levels, buying feed for ten pigs has become prohibitively expensive for Overland, a homeschooling mom who raises animals to save money. “Our intention was…


Artist Crafts Meticulously Cut Paper Birds So Realistic They Look Like They’re About to Fly Away

Applying scissors to paper, wildlife artist Niharika Rajput makes meticulous cuts to produce handfuls of tiny paper feathers for one of her intricate paper bird sculptures. Completing one of these avian creations can take weeks or even months, but the finished products are so lifelike they’ve been mistaken for taxidermy birds. The 30-year-old artist from…


Wildlife Keeper Snaps a Hilarious Selfie With the Huge Rhino That Is Under His Care

A rhino keeper in Kenya has snapped a hilarious selfie with the huge animal that he cares for. Joseph, who works for the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, took a selfie with Apollo the rhino. The rhino is under the care of Joseph since being rescued at 6 months old. Apollo had lost his mother due to natural…


Cat Sanctuary Workers Find Tiger Cub Hours Old in Tiny Breeding Facility, Raise Him to Be Apex Predator

A team of wildcat sanctuary workers drove down a windy, wooded dirt road in Indiana to a small, out-of-the-way animal breeding facility where they fully expected to find a pair of lions and two tigers in need of a good home. They never expected to find a tiger cub. Enclosed in chain-link fence, the compound…


Angler Feels ‘Elemental Force’ Tug on His Line, Reels In Enormous 31-Pound Monster Grouper, Shatters World Record

While wetting his line in the Red Sea this past summer, one Hungarian angler managed to reel in a world record-sized roving coral grouper—a spectacular red-orange specimen dappled with blue spots. After being submitted and confirmed by the International Game Fishing Association (IGFA) last fall, the enormous fish shattered the previous world record which had…


Autistic Boy Never Spoke a Word or Showed Emotion—Until Parents Got a Cocker Spaniel Best Friend for Life

A 5-year-old boy from the UK who was born with autism never showed any emotion nor spoke a single word until his parents, by happenstance, found him a four-legged best friend for life. Parents Hayley and Karsten Kirby-Bulner, from Andover, Hampshire, never intended for Fern the cocker spaniel to be their son Leon’s dog; it…