Animals
Lounging golden retrievers have hilarious (non)reaction when human parents try to change bedding
Dog owner checks pet cam on puppy's first time home alone—And regrets it
Inspired by piping plover enthusiasts, couple protects killdeer eggs at construction site
The Greenland shark lives roughly 400 years — longer than any other vertebrate on Earth — and when scientists sequenced its genome in September 2024, they found the species’ extraordinary lifespan appears to rely on enormous quantities of duplicated DNA-repair genes, in a biological strategy still keeping individual sharks alive that were born during Shakespeare’s lifetime.
A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when injured or starved, effectively rebooting its life cycle, and biologists have watched it perform this reversal indefinitely under laboratory conditions
Can Horse Owners' Personalities Affect Horse Welfare?
Viral Video of the Day for June 25, 2026: Otter mom's adorable baby introduction melts hearts online!
The Australian superb lyrebird can imitate almost any sound it has ever heard — chainsaws, camera shutters, car alarms, the calls of more than 20 other species — with enough accuracy that the birds being imitated often can’t tell the difference
How do sun bears that have been kept in captivity for many years fare when returned to a semi-wild environment?
Runaway giraffe on the loose in Texas
Football mad baby elephant makes it 1-0 at calf time
Why female guppies prefer rare males and how this might shape evolution
A trained dog can detect a single drop of blood diluted in 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools — a sensitivity so extreme that dogs can pick up the molecular traces of cancer in a person’s breath — and a 2024 study found them correctly identifying breast, lung, prostate, and colorectal cancer with roughly 94 percent accuracy
Shown its reflection in a mirror, a small reef fish scraped at a mark it could see only there, behaving as if it recognized itself – though the researchers stopped short of calling it self-aware
Owner asks groomer to dye dog—sees result and realizes it went very "wrong"
Critically endangered Indian roofed turtle found in Rajouri
A 71-pound shelter dog thinks she's a lap dog. Her story is heartbreaking
When a dead whale sinks to the seafloor, its ‘whale fall’ becomes an oasis feeding deep-sea life for decades — up to 190 species crowding a single skeleton, with bone-eating worms gnawing the bones for as long as a decade
This is one of the rarest animals on the planet, with only about 800 individuals remaining worldwide.
Hundreds of preserved dinosaur footprints — left by giant sauropods and a meat-eating Megalosaurus walking across a soft muddy lagoon roughly 166 million years ago — were uncovered in Oxfordshire, England in 2025, in tracks so well preserved that paleontologists can measure the individual stride lengths of animals that walked the Earth before the first flowers had ever evolved
