Taking care of children is hard, especially the first time. If you have a bouncing newborn baby at home, you might be on the lookout for any and all parenting advice you can get. If your relatives, friends, and complete strangers haven’t already bombarded you with enough tips, you might turn to the natural world …
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Administrative bureaucracy can be necessary for doing things by the book, but we all know how infuriatingly slow official processes can be. When the wheels of bureaucracy refuse to turn, you sometimes really wish you could go and take matters into your own hands. Well, that’s what these beavers did. In Czechia, the local government …
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To keep your species alive, you need to have babies. For the most part, procreation follows the classic, tried-and-true method. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, go ask your parents about the birds and bees. Nature isn’t big on standardization, though, and some animals carry on their legacy in unusual ways. Some of …
There’s nothing like a mother’s love. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a human or an animal. However, we’re ready to hand the Mother (Dog) of the Year award to this Turkish stray pooch. Earlier this year, an animal lover in Turkey rescued a sick puppy off the streets. The good Samaritan brought the half-dead dog …
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We’re all doomed to die. No, that’s not teenage nihilism or Shakespearean introspection — it’s a fact of life. To illustrate this point, an estimated 99.9% of all species that have ever existed are long gone. Whether it is a plant or animal, big or small, any given species rarely survives past 15 million years. …
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No matter how mundane of a body part it is, at some point along the evolutionary line, it appeared for the first time. Something as basic as eyes, blood, or even brains stop existing if you go far enough back in history. The same goes for the butthole. An animal’s rear passage can be a …
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Do you know these fantastic fun facts? There are a lot of unknowns on this list, so you could learn some new ones, too! German chocolate cake doesn’t come from Germany but was named after Sam German. He created the baking chocolate for Baker’s in 1852. Before it was called Pride and Prejudice by Jane …
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Do you know these national park fun facts? There are so many more that didn’t make this list, but how cool do these sound? The oldest park east of the Mississippi River is Acadia National Park. This park was also the first instance in which land was donated to the federal government. There are more …
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Many animals do not fare particularly well in captive settings, like zoos or aquariums. The enclosed spaces, lack of activity, and hordes of hairless apes coming to gawk at them can quickly start wearing on their nerves. And then there’s this ocean sunfish who loved it all so much that it got depressed when its …
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Some animals are carnivores, while others are content to munch on leaves and fruits. You can usually tell fairly quickly whether an animal eats plants, other animals, or both. Yet, sometimes nature throws a curveball at you. Certain animals do not eat at all what you’d expect. Perhaps they’re real gourmands who go only for …
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