After World War II, G.I.s returned from the front and got busy building families. That resulted in a baby boom, and that’s how we got today’s Boomers. It turns out that the same thing can also happen with our closest relatives. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a bloody war raged in Uganda. This …
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Do you think you know a bunch of these fun facts about frogs? Because some of them are going to shock you. Frogs are amphibians and can live in water and on land. Their lives are shown in this dual water and land life as they are laid in water, hatch in the water and …
A Danish Zoo has recently stirred up a bit of controversy, to put things mildly. A few months ago, it asked people to donate their pets to the zoo. “Oh, that’s cute,” you might think. However, the donated animals wouldn’t become new attractions. Instead, they’d become food for the zoo’s carnivorous animals. Aalborg Zoo put …
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Seeing a rare and unusual animal is a… Well, rare treat. There’s just something about witnessing an elusive creature that few others have ever seen. Unfortunately, not all animals are rare simply because they live in remote places or are good at hiding. Some are being driven toward extinction, and may soon go from extremely …
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You see your friend in the distance, yell a greeting, and start reading toward them. But as you reach your friend, you realize it’s only a crude facsimile of a human being built out of severed body parts. Sounds like stuff from a horror movie. But building such gruesome monuments is everyday life for one …
Some people are so dedicated to their jobs that a simple workplace accident will not deter them from continuing the work. In fact, they might bear the resulting scars with pride and tackle their job with renewed gusto. Mauricio Hoyos is certainly one of these people. The marine biologist was recently on a research trip …
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Ew, you just walked face-first into a spiderweb! Peeling the sticky mess of your face is bad enough, but it always gets worse if you then feel something skittering across the back of your head. Oh well, at least spiders are solitary creatures. You won’t have to worry about there being multiple creepy crawlies on …
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When scared or harmed, most animals will run away and move on with their lives. They have more important things to do than keep worrying about whatever spooked them. Other animals, however, will remember you. And they will come back to take revenge, sometimes years later. Some animals’ desire for vengeance — whether bloody or …
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Japan has a problem. A big, shaggy-furred, angry, and potentially deadly problem. We’re talking about bears. Aggressive bears are rampaging through Japan’s northern provinces. This year alone, the bears have attacked more than 100 people and killed 12. With the bears becoming increasingly accustomed to people and encroaching deeper into cities, the Japanese government can’t …
Throughout human history, people have told tales of mythical monsters and legendary beasts. It’d be easy to dismiss most of these outlandish creatures as nothing but made-up stories. However, many of these fantastic critters may be based on real-life animals. For instance, most people know the kraken of Norse myth likely stems from Viking encounters …
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