When thinking about smuggling, your mind might first jump to drugs, guns, or other such illegal goods. But a huge sector of the smuggling industry focuses on a surprising cargo — animals. Animal smuggling really isn’t that surprising, though. There will always be people who are ready to pay a lot of money for exotic …
Out-of-control animals appear to be wreaking havoc all around the globe. In Japan, marauding monkeys are harassing people, while Hawaiians battle feral chickens. We can now add Australia to the list of countries locked in combat with an animal menace. But in this case, the enemy is much more intelligent than in the earlier wars. …
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Your brain is one of, if not the most important part of your body. It controls everything you do and without it, well… There’s no you. The same goes for (most) animals. They need a brain — but those brains are often very different from yours. Here is a collection of some of the strangest …
In case you haven’t heard — Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom, died on September 8 after reigning for 70 years. We’re not sure how you could’ve missed the news, though. After all, even the Queen’s bees have been told about it. There are a lot of old and arcane rituals and traditions …
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They say that the eyes are the windows of the soul. That may be true for humans, but things get a bit more convoluted when you consider animals. It’s a tough world out there in nature, and you need to constantly look for danger. And while our two front-facing eyes serve humans just fine, they’d …
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The ocean is vast, mainly unexplored, and a bit of a mystery to us all. Here are some ocean fun facts you never knew, you never knew. The Ocean Glows Or at least, the ocean can glow. It can look like sparkling stars, and it’s all from tiny marine organisms that live in the ocean. …
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Did you know that frogs and toads have been around for more than 200 million years? It’s true — they shared the planet with dinosaurs once. Since they’ve survived for so long, they must have thoroughly figured out procreation. A recent discovery has shed new light on the sex life of ancient amphibians. Today we …
The death of your favorite celebrity can hit you surprisingly hard. Although you’ve never actually known them, it can feel like you’ve lost a family member. But what if the celebrity is a 1,300-pound walrus? Does that change anything? Not really, at least if you look at Norway. The Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries recently euthanized …
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Ah, Hawaii! Sunshine, sandy beaches, tropical warmth — and thousands of aggressive feral chickens. That’s probably not what you’d want from your Hawaii vacation. But if you head over to the island of Oahu right now, it’s what you’ll get. For months, Hawaiians have been dealing with an overabundance of feral chickens running amok. The …
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Those monkeys are up to something. There have been strangely many stories popping up lately about macaques. In Japan, the authorities recently executed a macaque that had been attacking people. But in Indonesia, the macaques are… Well, doing something completely different. There’s no tactful way to put this so we’ll just be blunt. The macaques …
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