Some time ago, we wrote about an adventurous British dog who got rescued from a swamp with sausages. Clearly, this Michigan pup heard the story and thought she could do better. Maehem, a three-year-old Kai Ken escaped from her owners and went missing for nearly a week. After an exhaustive search, rescuers finally picked her …
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Have you ever seen a Tasmanian tiger? Unless you’re nearly 100 years old, you haven’t — the animal went extinct in 1936. Still, Australians still occasionally claim to have seen the long dead creature prowling the wilds. Well, in the future, they actually might spot it again. The Thylacine Integrated Genetic Restoration Research (TIGRR) Lab …
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The Earth getting gradually warmer has many strange — and often harmful — effect on plants and wildlife. But here’s one phenomenon that nobody saw coming. It seems last summer’s heatwave in British Columbia, Canada, got the local bees a bit too hot and bothered. In the summer heat, death literally came for male honeybees. …
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Nature is often absolutely terrifying, with any number of animals out there that are perfectly capable of killing people. Some might poison you, others can rip your face off, while other can crush you with sheer mass and not even notice. But things used to be worse. Much, much worse. Many animals that no longer …
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Traveling is fun. You get to see new places, eat different foods, meet people who think differently from you… Fun. Is it any wonder, then, that occasionally animals want to get in on the fun too? Every now and then, globetrotters and transportation crews find a furry (or scaly or feathery) surprise. Here are six …
A change of guard took place this year in the realm of tortoises. Jonathan, a 190-year-old giant tortoise living on St. Helena, has become the world’s oldest tortoise ever. Actually, that’s a bit of an understatement. Jonathan is now officially the oldest chelonian — the order of reptiles that includes all turtles, terrapins, and tortoises. …
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For the first part of this story, please read The Lab Monkeys Escaped, and the Airlines Are Done Transporting Them: Part One. The U.S. Department of Transportation has been pressed this last year, the airlines wanted them to ensure animals that are used for legally required drug-testing weren’t excluded. “Laboratory animal models are not only essential …
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Did you hear about the experimental lab monkeys that escaped in a Pennsylvania truck crash? Well, the international airline that shipped the 100 monkeys in the first place says that they will cease transporting the animals going forward. The contract is soon to expire and that’s that. Michael Joseph, Kenya Airways Chairman, confirmed that the …
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Imagine you’re some kind of a small animal, minding your own business. But oh no, suddenly a predator is attacking you! What’re you going to do? Will you run away, or will you try to attack the beast? Or will you fart your intestines out of your body? No, that’s not something we made up. …
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This story sounds like it could’ve sprung straight out of a Looney Tunes skit. But hey, if it works, it’s not stupid. In the U.K., rescuers were pondering how to save a dog that was in danger of being swept away by a rising tide. In the end, they resorted to cartoonish measures and dangled …
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