What happens if you scare a small lizard? It’ll likely drop its tail to distract the supposed predator and run off. But as we all know, it doesn’t really hurt the lizard. Before too long, the reptile will have grown a brand new tail. It might look a bit funkier than the original, but it …
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This 2011 story about Humphrey, a “domesticated” hippo, has started making rounds on the internet again. It has the broad structure of a parable, about trying to tame wild animals and not having enough personal respect for the massive power of nature. There’s something specific to hippos that makes some people construct bizarre relationships with …
Dinosaurs were a bunch of fascinating and often strange creatures, and there are a lot of mysteries that still surround them. For example, paleontologists just recently made the first educated guesses of how they had sex, thanks to a fossilized butthole. But now they’ve found an even stranger animal that lived when dinosaurs still walked …
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We’ve covered cases of dogs helping humans many times before. From sniffing out COVID-19 infections to helping out in the military, these good boys and girls have a long list of merits. They can now add nature conservation to that as well. In Florida, dogs are helping wildlife officials combat an invasion of a foreign …
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Sometimes it just happens that something that almost killed you ends up opening new doors for you. Maybe you get a new job because of it, or wind up meeting a person that becomes your special someone. Ever have something like that happen to you? Well, Gunner here sure has. At the end of November, …
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We usually associate animal behavior with cuteness. Whether they’re running, jumping, bouncing, nibbling, or anything else, it’s usually adorable, right? But if you’re read Oddee at all – or paid any attention to nature for that matter – you’ll know that just as often animals aren’t quite as innocent as we make them out to …
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Nature is a brutal, unforgiving place. The fact the sun goes down at 3:30 in the afternoon should be reason enough to accept that as fact, but if you’re unconvinced (or a masochist), I present to you the eel. Researchers published a study in the Memoirs of the Queensland Museum journal about snake eels. They’re …
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If you’ve ever had a close encounter with a goose, you know how unpredictable and violent wild animals can be. Despite Disney’s best efforts, no one will ever convince me that woodland creatures would rather humans didn’t exist, and they wouldn’t mind being the ones to do us in. You can watch YouTube videos of …
In a story too bizarre to be made up, a Belgian racing pigeon named New Kim sold for $1.9 million after a frenetic half-hour of bidding between Super Duper and Hitman, two Chinese bidders. The previous record for a racing pigeon goes back to 2019 (ah, a simpler time) when Armando sold for $409,000. Are …
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A Lake Tahoe bear’s months-long crime spree has come to a close after officials from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife trapped and moved him to a “large expanse of wild, suitable bear habitat.” The bear, a 16-year-old male, has a poorly healed broken leg and took to stopping in stores throughout the fall …
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