You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover — or an animal by what it looks like today. There are many creatures out there in the wild that are small and, honestly, kind of pathetic. But they weren’t necessarily always that way. Many creatures living on the planet now had ancient versions of them that …
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When you have a dog, you often want to take your little friend along for different activities. But there are some things that probably shouldn’t involve your pooch. Like, say, a high-speed police chase on top of a motorcycle. A Florida biker on a cross-country road trip recently tried to outrun the police in Louisiana. …
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When you’re feeling troubled and alone, what do you do? Most people tend to grab the phone and call someone. As it turns out, so will parrots. At least, if somebody teaches them how to use a phone. A team of scientists from the Northeastern University, MIT, and the University of Glasgow recently published the …
A lot of people get a bit confused when they hear an animal is “poisonous.” And admittedly, it’s easy to get them mixed with venomous animals. Here’s a good rule of thumb. If it bites you and you die, it’s venomous; if you bite it and YOU die, it’s poisonous. A lot of animals use …
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A band’s lineup is usually pretty static. You have the singer, a guitarist or two, a bassist, and someone banging the drums. Add a keyboard player every now and then. Of course, there are also solo artists and much larger orchestras. But then there are also bands that have much more imaginative members. Sometimes, the …
Michelle Collins lives in constant fear — and she’s done so for the past three years. She is afraid to go into her own kitchen because her home is full of ravenous beasts. They consume everything in her house, from doors to cabinets and her dogs’ food. She can hear them skittering and scratching, especially …
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“I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.” Kid, let me tell you — you either know nothing about hippos or you’re dumber than a sack of bricks. In the popular imagination, hippos are often seen as these lazy, rotund river potatoes. At worst, they might come creepily strutting out of a river and sing about how …
Mary had a little goat; its fleece was white as snow. And then the cops showed up with a search warrant and dragged the goat off to the slaughterhouse. We wish that was just a tasteless nursery rhyme parody we came up with. But exactly what a recent lawsuit claims happened to Cedar the Goat …
Cockroaches are revolting. You probably don’t want to even think about them — let alone the disgusting ways they have their vermin sex. Well, we’re sorry, but we’re going to have to talk about cockroaches and how they bang. And there’s a good reason for it. They’re developing literal new tastes in sex. And that …
A stinky skunk is unmistakable and that’s what makes them famous. Do you know the following fun facts about the skunk? Skunks stung by bees aren’t usually hurt. They kill the bees by rubbing them between their two front paws. Skunks, especially spotted skunks, eat other types of food. They like bird eggs, worms, snails, …
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