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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Collapse of Antarctic Ice Sheet Irreversible
One of the six major glaciers being eroded from below by warm water What does it mean when two major studies this week tell us that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is…
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2013 Game Changers
Two events share top prize as game changers for the year just ending: The Nonhuman Rights Project's lawsuits have started a whole new conversation about how we relate to other…
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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…
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…
The Elephant on Mars
A sanctuary on Mars for elephants spirited out of zoos by Bob Barker? No, just the latest “face” seen in hi-res photos from Mars. This one…
Iowa Governor Defends Pink Slime
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is on massive damage control in the wake of public revulsion to the idea of “pink slime” in their beef. Wearing a…
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…
Titanic – a Tale for Our Time
Lots of talk this week about the 100th anniversary of the maiden – and final – voyage of Titanic. It’s an ever-fascinating morality tale of human…
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…
Did a Canadian Navy Sonar Bomb Kill a Beloved Young Orca?
I may have met Little Victoria last summer. I don’t know that for sure, but I certainly met her family. She was a young orca, and her battered body washed up on the beach two months ago. The evidence is that she was killed by a sonar bomb set off by the Canadian Navy.
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,…