The high plains of southern Peru are famous for the Nazca Lines – animal shapes about an eighth of a mile long that were carved into the high plateau land around 400 C.E. and were once thought by some, like the controversial author Erik von Daniken, to have been landing strips for extraterrestrials.
Animal psychologist Charles Snowdon explains that while nonhumans do experience and enjoy music, it’s of a very different kind, depending on the species.
A new study suggests that a velociraptor whose fossil was found in China’s Gobi Desert, was in the middle of eating a flying pterosaur, when she died. That’s because a small pterosaur bone was found in the gut of the relatively intact velociraptor.
When two bears discovered the art of sledding at a wildlife park in Germany, they just went crazy with delight. After hitting the slopes several times, they dove into a play-fight, somersaulting through the snow together.
How hard could a Tyrannosaurus Rex bite? Harder than anyone ever imagined! A new study by scientists concludes that T-Rex could deliver 12,800 pounds of bite – almost 20 times as much as they previously thought.
Tiger the pit bull likes food. Any food. Especially if it’s on his head. His person, Andrew Small of Crystal River, Florida, regularly uploads photos of Tiger with some new food item balanced on his head.
In the world of dinosaurs, almost everything was bigger. Even the fleas. Back in the Jurassic Era, some of them were almost one inch long. New flea fossils, up to 165 million years old, have been found in China.
Amy Jung went to bed at around 9.30. At about 11 p.m., Pudding woke her up by jumping on her chest, pawing her face and biting her nose. Amy was having a diabetic seizure.
A typical dolphin pod, or family, consists of about 12 individuals. So this video is beyond astonishing: roughly 2,000 dolphins all together as they race a whale-watching boat.
When the Earth warms up, animals get smaller. That’s what happened 56 million years ago during another time of global warming. Temperatures rose roughly 10 degrees Fahrenheit, and scientists examining the fossils of horses from that time are seeing that to cope with the heat, they began to shrink in size.
Using a fragment of a human finger bone found in that cave, scientists have sequenced the genome of an extinct group of humans known as the Denisovans – so called after the name of the cave at Denisova.
The rapidly growing scientific field of “play studies” is turning up so many surprising examples of what at least appear to be play activities in the most surprising places, that scientists are asking whether there may be something about the very fabric of matter itself that continually spawns and nurtures fun and play.
A pair of very thin, homeless puppies walked into a Corpus Christi, Texas, hospital looking for medical attention. Although the hospital only caters to humans, they made sure the doggies got the treatment they needed.
“They’re living fossils,” says Ray Bosmans, president of the Mid-Atlantic Turtle & Tortoise Society (MATTS), a conservation and education group that helps place abandoned turtles and tortoises into new homes.
She lived in the ocean about 750 million years ago. Today, the ocean is gone – replaced by the savannah of Namibia. Long ago, this great-great-great-etc.grandma turned to stone, a tiny fossil.
Keith Overton was recording video of his son, Mitchell, wake surfing behind their boat near St. Pete Beach, Florida yesterday. A couple of dolphins decided to join in on the fun.
Ads from Subaru feature dogs in cars doing all sorts of things, going to the beach, camping, ski trip.
Currently circulating on the Web. Original source seems to be unknown. How does your cat see things?
Watch as a baby bird half-falls, half-flies out of her nest and lands on the guitar of Josh Williams at the Doyle Lawson Bluegrass Festival in Denton, NC on May 5, 2011. Sitting in the front row of the audience was a veterinarian who returned the chick to her nest.
Cute bunny on a European farm keeps busy herding the sheep.