Humanity loves animals. We study them, we document their actions, and we marvel at the…
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Whether they were real or legends, stories about sea monsters have always captured our imagination.…
Reptiles elicit a mixed response from people. Symbolic of the primeval, these creatures offer a…
Birds are quickly defined by their bills, and among the more than 10,000 species of…
Throughout human history, people have taken advantage of animals and used them as aids in…
The ocean is a place of ceaseless wonder, and what is just as magical is…
Many people are afraid of insects, probably because they’re creepy, disgusting, freaky, and scary. But…
Humans have been going to war since the beginning of our history. Because it has…
Animal traits are often correlated to an animal’s environment, predator avoidance, and mating habits. Often…
There’s an oft-repeated quote that we know more about the surface moon than we do…
Dogs are among the most familiar domestic animals, but most wild canines that evolved naturally…
Sometimes we have to sit back and just trust nature. What I mean is that…
Former Mozambican President Samora Machel once said, “The rich man’s dog gets more in the…
Did you know that superheroes actually exist? They’re not humans, spirits, or aliens, but rather…
Compared to the animal kingdom, humans have relatively boring sex lives. But perhaps that’s a…
Every entry on this list is a menace. They may be cute, or iconic (actually,…
During the witch hunt trials that swept across Europe and North America in the early…
Far from being a mere disgusting dirt-dweller or fish bait, earthworms come in handy for…
There are certain animal-related facts that just about everybody knows by heart. Or at least, they think they do. Many widely-known facts about animals are just plain wrong. Luckily, we’re here to set the record straight.
It’s always a bad day whenever an animal dies before their time. When they die at the hands of a human, we’re naturally outraged. But when death is the result of a freak accident, we’re just plain depressed. And now you get to be depressed too, as we visit ten stories of animals who suffered the most unfortunate twist of fate imaginable.
Goldfish are the earliest fish to be domesticated by humans, approximately 1700 years ago in…
Some animals are so popular and ubiquitous that it’s just assumed they’ve been part of our lives forever. However, it turns out some of these creatures were in hiding longer than we think, and our knowledge of them is restricted to the past 200 years or less. Who knows what else is out there?
Some of the most common characteristics of a bear include a large body, stocky legs,…
Dogs can’t eat candy, but that doesn’t mean they can’t go trick-or-treating! Actually no, wait. We’re wrong. They can’t trick or treat. They’re DOGS. But this hasn’t stopped a bunch of companies from designing elaborate costumes for your pooch to contemplate murder in. And yes, several of them are sexy. It IS Halloween, after all.