More Than 10,000 People Attended An Internet Cat Video Film Festival In...
The internet loves cats. Between I Can Haz Cheezburger?, the strangely-addicting Nyan Cat, and Maru jumping into boxes, there is no escaping the online feline phenomenon. So it shouldn't come as a...
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Isaac Left Piles Of Dead Swamp Rats In Its Wake
The aftermath of Hurricane Isaac has washed ashore tens of thousands of dead "swamp rats," invasive species whose rotting corpses are now presenting a health hazard in Mississippi. The drowned...
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Vladimir Putin Will Lead A Pack Of Endangered Cranes In A Hang-Glider
He has shot a grey whale with a sample-collecting dart in the Pacific, released leopards in the Caucasus and "saved journalists from wild tigers", now Vladimir Putin's latest episode of animal antics...
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This Is What The Inside Of A Great White Shark Looks Like
Since the film Jaws, most people see Great White sharks as cold-blooded murderers. But Great Whites rarely attack humans. In fact, more people are killed by kitchen toasters each year than sharks. But...
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Sharks Can Learn From Each Other
A species of shark known as the lemon shark is able to share information through social interactions, a new study shows. When placed in the same pen with a trained partner, lemon sharks have more...
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Should We Strive To Save All Endangered Species?
As a list of the world's 100 most critically endangered species was published, one academic challenged the idea that all should be preserved. The idea that all species have an equal right to exist...
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The New 100 Most Endangered Species In The World
For the first time, the Zoological Society of London and the IUCN have named the 100 most critically endangered animals, plants and fungi on the planet. Conservationists fear that many listed...
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New Species Of Monkey With Giant Blue Backsides Found In The African Forest
A shy, brightly colored monkey species has been found living in the lush rainforests at the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a find that utterly surprised the researchers who came upon it....
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10 New Mammals Discovered In The Last Decade
A new species of monkey has been identified in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The lesula, or Cercopithecus lomamiensis, described as shy and quiet, has excited conservationists because the...
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Tennessee's Bats Are Getting Some Swanky New Digs
A pack of Tennessee bats are movin' on up in the world — the nonprofit conservation society The Nature Conservancy has built a man-made bat cave to give the animals a safe, clean home, in the hopes it...
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A Siberian Zoo Has One Of The Rarest Animals You'll Ever See: A 'Liliger'
This little cub is Kiara, and she's an ultra-rare "liliger," reports The Moscow Times. What exactly is a liliger? Well, her mother Zita is a liger (the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger),...
View ArticleHeroic Pig Rescues A Drowning Baby Goat In Sensational Video
This video on LiveLeak.com shows a small pig rescuing a drowning baby goat at a petting zoo. The goat is shown struggling to keep its head above water. Then, the pig swoops across the water and pushes...
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How A Cheetah Gets Its Stripes
From where does a tabby cat get its stripes? The same place cheetahs get their spots. A new study finds the same gene that is responsible for the cheetah's color patterns causes a tabby's stripes....
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These Newly Discovered Species Were Named After Celebrities
What do Dick Cheney, Lady Gaga, Bob Marley, and Hugh Hefner all have in common? They've all been lucky enough to have a newly discovered species named after them. From colorful fish to rabbits to...
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This Dog Produced Milk To Nurse An Abandoned Kitten
A 4-year-old Pekingese dog named Mittens shocked her owners after she adopted a kitten and began producing milk to nurse it. Pat Weber of Jordan, Minnesota told the Star Tribune that her grandson...
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Take A Tour Of The World's Best Coral Reefs Before They Vanish
Google's street view has been everywhere from Antarctica to the Canadian Arctic and even the Moon and the sky with Google Earth. Now, they've sent the mapping team underwater. Get right to the...
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Strange Skin-Regrowing Mouse Is First Mammal Capable Of Regenerating Body Parts
A mouse that escapes predators by shedding patches of its skin may shed light on regeneration and could lead to research that one day helps people heal from wounds and disease, scientists say. Humans...
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An Eyeless Spider Shuts Down $15 Million Highway Project
A rare, eyeless spider has indefinitely halted construction on $15 million highway project in San Antonio, Texas, Casey Stegall of Fox News reports. The endangered Braken Bat Cave Meshweaver spider...
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One Million New Species Have Been Discovered In The World's Oceans
Scientists aboard the tiny sea vessel The Tara have made a titanic-sized discovery. The group of researchers say they have discovered more than 1 million new species of microscopic plankton living in...
View ArticleResearcher Apologizes For Not Discovering Cool New Species Of Dinosaur Sooner
Two-hundred million years ago, a house-cat-size dinosaur that nibbled on plants roamed among Earth's mightiest carnivores. The tiny dinosaur, called Pegomastax africanus, was recently identified by...
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