Tag: animals
A wide range of topics related to the animal kingdom. From domesticated pets to exotic wildlife, readers will find informative and engaging articles about these fascinating creatures. Articles may focus on animal behavior, habitats and ecosystems, breeding and reproduction, conservation efforts, and much more.
Beautiful animal and nature photographs that’ll put a smile on your face – Part 2
Stop and smell the roses? Sometimes is helps to take the time to recognize the beauty of the world that we live in. Here is a collection of nature photographs that will surely put a smile on your face.
Beautiful animal and nature photographs that’ll put a smile on your face – Part 1
Stop and smell the roses? Sometimes is helps to take the time to recognize the beauty of the world that we live in. Here is a collection of nature photographs that will surely put a smile on your face.
Mike the Headless Chicken – famously tough chicken lives over a year with no head
It will forever be known as one of the luckiest breaks in poultry history – the day a propitious hatchet job left “Miracle Mike” (aka Mike the Headless Chicken) in a one-in-a-million state that allowed him to live for over a year without a head. The unusual event started routinely enough. On September 10, 1945,…
A little bit of an overreaction
As if they’re not already creepy enough, researchers find two-headed stingray fetus floating in aquarium water
Australian researcher Leonardo Guida was cleaning an aquarium in April when he saw several baby rays floating in the water. Noting that the mother stingrays had just given birth, he began recording the baby rays when he saw an “oddly shaped, pale object floating in the water”. That odd object turned out to be a…
Wave of sheep mutilations in Port Lavaca, Texas – police say lack of evidence in the case is “puzzling”.
There has been a wave of perplexing sheep mutilations in Port Lavaca, Texas over the past few months in which one farmer has lost 21 head of his prized Barbados Sheep since July 2013. Wayne Daggs, who worked in law enforcement for 23 years including a 18-year stint as the county constable before retiring in…
Reports from China say at least 42 dead and hundreds injured during wave of giant hornet attacks.
Forty-two people have died and thousands have been injured in a wave of giant hornet attacks in central China. Victims of the bizarre attacks, which began about three months ago, described being chased for hundreds of yards by the creatures and stung as many as 200 times. The giant hornets can grow up to three…
120 dead elk carcasses found near crop circle in northern New Mexico
Game and Fish investigators found 120 dead elk carcasses near a mysterious crop circle near Las Vegas, New Mexico on August 26, 2013. The animals were found about 20 miles north of Las Vegas and a few hundred yards south of the crop circle. All of the animal carcasses were found within a single square…
Check out these gnarly skateboarding mice as they grind coping and do aerials in their mini skateboard park
First Australian Shane Willmott spent 10 years teaching his pet mice how to surf. Now these radical rodents are grinding the coping at their own mini-skatepark and the photos of their gnarly skate sessions are nothing short of mind-blowing.
