Goats are notoriously stubborn animals. They’ll (at least try) to eat almost anything, occasionally overrun Italian islands, and they climb. Boy, do they climb. In case you didn’t know, goats are basically a bunch of Spider-Men. Some mountain goats can scale nearly perfectly vertical cliffs with ease. Yet, even your regular domestic goats can be …
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Solid, tabby, piebald, calico, Siamese, bald… Our kitty cats come in all kinds of coats and colors. Now, crazy cat ladies and lords can add a whole new type of cat to the list. A Finnish research team has identified a new kind of coat in cats. Called “salmiak,” this never-before-seen coloration is black and …
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Did you read Things To Know About Endangered Species In The United States? Because this is part two. Beluga Whale Beluga whales have a developed and acute sense of hearing and their auditory cortex is highly developed. They can swim 2 to 6 miles an hour but the fastest observed whale was at 17 miles …
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Crickets to the left of me, cicadas to the right — here I am, stuck in the middle with you. This could be Midwesterners’ theme song for the early summer of 2024. After all, they’re about to be crushed between two apocalyptic insect swarms. The one in the West has already emerged. Thousands upon thousands …
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Do you know about all the endangered species in our nation? There are more than 1,300 endangered and threatened species in the United States and these are some of them. Red Wolf Red wolves are known as shy and elusive but are considered top predators. Red wolves can only be found in the wild in …
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Sharks are fascinating, ancient creatures. Over the hundreds of millions of years they’ve existed, they often developed into incredibly strange forms. It’s not like bizarre sharks are all extinct, though. We’ve previously written about a few of them, but we couldn’t have possibly covered all of them in one article. So, we figured it might …
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Ilha de Queimada Grande is a small Atlantic island off the coast of Brazil. It has a temperate climate, yet its varied terrain ranges from the craggy coast to dense rainforest. Sounds like a nice vacation spot, right? It’s too bad you can’t ever go to the island. Not that you’d really want to. You …
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Parasites are awful, awful things. Nobody wants them, but here’s a little secret for you. You have them. Don’t worry, though, since the most common parasites are typically harmless. That said, there are some rarer and very strange (and awful) things out there that would love to live in your body. Here are seven examples …
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When it comes to the food chain, you can’t climb much higher up on the ladder than a crocodile. Aside from the occasional human hunter, adult crocodiles simply have no natural predators. Recently, however, crocodilians seem to be in a lot of trouble. When it’s not an emotional support alligator getting stolen, then crocodiles are …
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Sun shines, grass grows, and birds fly and go tweet. Except for those birds that absolutely do not. And then, of course, there are those birds that do go tweet but look completely ridiculous while they do so. Here are eight bizarre examples from the weird and wonderful world of birds. 8. Northern shoveler The …
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