Man Loses Cat, Finds ‘UFO’
Murlimann the cat had gone missing. So Austrian farmer Franz Knoglinger went looking for her. She was nowhere to be seen, but the farmer did discover…
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Ringling Caves!
The elephants are packing their trunks. By any standard, today’s decision by the Ringling Circus to phase out its elephant acts represents a seismic shift in the use of…
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Mother Carries Shot Pit Bull to Safety
It started out as the same hike that Andi Davis does every day to the top of one of the mountains near where she lives in Phoenix, Arizona. But this time, close to the top,…
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Liberators or Terrorists?
When 100 people, mostly women from various rescue groups, rescued 178 beagles from a research lab in Brazil last week, nobody called them terrorists. The five security officers…
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Do Pets Prevent Sudden Death in Children with Epilepsy?
A group of Brazilian researchers wondered if the presence of a pet in the home of a child with epilepsy might reduce their risk of dying from SUDEP. They found that of the 1,092…
The Right Music for Cats
Greyhound Shock Angers Australians
Holiday Gift for Elephant Music Lovers
The Yeti Bear
Top Ten Tax-Funded Bizarre Experiments
We’ve heard plenty of stories in the last few days of tax dollars funding lavish Las Vegas vacations for government agencies and prostitution scandals in the Secret Service. But these are all peanuts compared to the amount of your money being dished out for weird vivisection experiments.
Spellbound by Baboons
Dan is a baboon who lives at the Cognitive Research Laboratory in France. He and five other baboons have had access to a computer that stores 500 real four-letter words and nearly 8,000 non-words, like XFOP or TYWQ.
The Missing Lynx
It’s difficult enough finding Fluffy when she’s hiding in plain sight. Try finding a Canadian lynx in the wilds of a national park. But Canadian wildlife scientists are thrilled with this photo of a lynx as she crossed a wildlife overpass in Banff National Park. It was captured on an automatic motion-sensitive camera.
Romney Donor Barbecued Dog
Fred Malek, the president of Marriott Hotels, is a big donor to Mitt Romney. But Dogs Against Romney, a grassroots organization, has dug up a story…
Two More Horses Dead in Race Horror
Yet another disaster yesterday at a big horse race. At the U.K.’s infamous Grand National, where the contestants race around a dangerous obstacle course, two of…
Teenage Girl Risks Life, Saves 25 Horses
Ignoring warnings from her stepdad, 15-year-old Madison Wallraf dashed into a burning stable on Wednesday night and rescued 25 horses from the blazing fire. Taking the reins of the terrified horses – in some cases just throwing ropes over them to lead them out – the 4-foot-10 girl guided as many as possible to safety.
FDA to Drug Companies: Stop Dosing Food Animals with Antibiotics
The Food and Drug Administration has finally called on drug companies to limit the use of antibiotics in farm animals, a practice that is contributing to…
Another Chicken Factory Farm Busted
In the latest undercover investigation into animal abuse at factory farms, we see, in the same cages as living chickens, birds who have been dead so…
Fox’s Mole and Romney’s Horses
Political pundits are twittering about the Fox News mole who’s sending gossip to Gawker. The mole’s first dispatch: Mitt Romney chatting “off camera” with Hannity about…
Ringling Circus Train Collides with Truck
A Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train collided into a dump truck that had stalled on the train tracks near Knoxville, Tenn. The train…
Why Little Brown Bats Are Sick
The mystery of why millions of bats in North America have been dying over the past several years may be solved. White nose syndrome, as the…
For Dogs Too Fat to Climb the Stairs
This new device is NOT the answer to the problem of Fido being so fat he can’t even climb the stairs. The answer is to lose…
To Dye, to Die, Aye, There’s the Rub
Astoundingly, the Governor of Florida has signed a bill overturning a 45-year-old ban on dyeing baby chicks. We’re told that this extraordinary step backward was at…
The Sloth Photo Bomb!
For sure, the best photo bomb of the year to date! (And yes, to the very best of our knowledge this is not a piece of…
Champ the Horse Rescues Drowning Filly
Forest Service Volunteer Becky Standridge watched and took photos as a group of wild horses went for a swim in an Arizona creek. One of them,…
Reunited … 16 Years Later!
Poldi the cat went for a walk from his family home in 1996. He reappeared … this week. For months after he disappeared, Poldi’s family searched their Munich, Germany, neighborhood for him. They finally gave up, thinking they would never see him again.
Hundreds of U.K. Military Dogs Killed, Not Retired
There’s outrage in the U.K. over the number of military working dogs who are routinely destroyed, rather than retired, when they return from active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Arsenic and Old Feathers
Today, yet another food revelation: Chickens on factory farms are routinely fed acetaminophen (as in Tylenol), along with the same antihistamine you find in Benadryl, the antidepressant that’s featured in Prozac, plus various antimicrobials, and, yes, arsenic.
T-Rex Cousin Had Feathers
She weighed a ton and a half, was at least 30 feet long, lived about 125 million years ago, and was an early cousin of the Tyrannosaurus family. But the really big thing about her is that she had soft, fuzzy feathers.