After Tiger King, you’d think people would realize that “exotic pets” are just wild animals. They look very chill and approachable in their enclosures, but people have to understand that’s not how they’ll behave in your living room. Well, 30-year-old Cory McGilloway found out that simple truth the hard way when he kidnapped Maki, the …
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Let’s play a round of association game. What pops to your mind when you think about being relentlessly pursued by a cougar? To some, it probably sounds like a grand old time. On the other hand, other will probably want to run for their lives. This Utah man will from now on be firmly in …
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Dogs are good critters. We’ve covered it several times, but it could always stand to be repeated. From sniffing out coronavirus infections to helping the differently abled, or just providing good old-fashioned company, dogs carry out a whole slew of valuable services. In some places, China for example, dogs are so vital that people are …
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Our relationship with dinosaurs is…complicated. We love them; we want them back, but we understand why that’s a bad idea. But we also love seeing what would happen if they did come back. The first Jurassic Park movie came out in 1993, and it was a revolution. The CGI was mind-blowing back then. Spoiler: it …
Exotic foods are a big business around the world. From foie gras to truffles, gourmets from far and wide are prepared to pay exorbitant prices for a new strange thing to stuff into their mouths. Sometimes, though, these rare treats involve some questionable practices. The aforementioned foie gras, for example, has come under fire because …
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As far as unusual animal stories go, this is one is more bizarre than most. A woman near the town of Unterlauchringen opened the door to her terrace and in walked a 10-inch mitten crab. The Associated Press described the woman as shocked, which, fair enough. But she called the cops–on a crab. Before the …
During the pandemic’s height, when much of the world was quarantined and watching the world from their living rooms, wildlife returned to cities and suburbs. There were some hoaxes, like dolphins swimming in the channels of Venice. But in other places, we saw how wildlife would behave if we all just calmed down with the …
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Animals can be pretty smart sometimes. That’s common knowledge to anyone who owns a dog, or even a cat. But everyone’s favorite pets aren’t actually the brightest ones in the animal kingdom. They’re actually kind of dumb in some ways when compared to creatures like the elephant, pig, or even octopus. There’s also another group …
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There are probably more paleontologists out there than you’d expect. In my mind, it’s Dr. Grant, Dr. Satler, and whoever got off Isla Nubar before the storm hit, and everything went sideways. There’s not that many more of them in the actual world. A 2008 issue of Palaeontologia Electronica places the number of paleontologists at …
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The COVID-19 pandemic is still going strong, with rates of new infections indicating that we might be heading towards a new spike. And with very well thought out responses from authorities – such as Florida lifting all coronavirus restrictions – it seems that the virus will not be going anywhere any time soon. But at …
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