Animals
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
We assumed humpback whales had to reach warm tropical waters before giving birth, but a 2025 UNSW-led study found newborn calves as far south as Tasmania — around 1,500 kilometres beyond the accepted calving zone — suggesting some mothers give birth mid-migration and keep swimming north with their calves.
Dog owner makes heartshattering mistake while half-asleep: "She was convinced we abandoned her"
Pelicans in St James' Park have chicks for first time in 360 years
Football mad baby elephant makes it 1-0 at calf time
Stolen felines reunited with owners after Vietnam cat-meat bust
NCDOT plans safe crossings for endangered red wolves and lots of other animals
Lonely dog poses a big challenge to rescuer – until two young heroes save the day!
A cat worth nearly half a billion VND attracts attention at a cat beauty pageant in Ho Chi Minh City.
A Greenland shark studied in 2016 was estimated to be nearly 400 years old, meaning it may have been born around the time Shakespeare’s era was ending — and, astonishingly, would not have reached sexual maturity for more than another century.
Owner asks groomer to dye dog—sees result and realizes it went very "wrong"
Most of an octopus’s brain cells live in its arms, not in its head — only about 8 percent of its 500 million neurons sit inside the central brain, with the rest spread across the eight arms and the optic lobes behind its eyes, in a body design some neuroscientists describe as the closest thing to an alien mind humanity has ever studied
Owner films blind pup desperately "trying to fit in" with foster siblings
Owner rushes dog to vet over worrying symptoms—Not prepared for the truth
Indonesia's First Giant Panda Cub Debuts at Taman Safari
When a honeybee colony outgrows its hive it makes a genuinely democratic decision: scout bees fly out, inspect possible new homes, and ‘campaign’ for their favourite with waggle dances, lobbying harder for better sites — and only once enough scouts have converged on the same spot does the whole swarm lift off together, almost always choosing well
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
Orphaned baby hippo can't sleep after losing his mom – what his rescuers do next changes everything
Dog is home alone and misses owner – what she does next is shocking: "Alexa, call Mama!"
A giant barrel sponge growing on a Caribbean reef off the island of Curaçao was estimated to be roughly 2,300 years old when it was photographed by researchers — meaning it began growing at the bottom of the ocean during the lifetime of Hannibal and survived as a single continuous living organism, filtering seawater on that exact spot, from before the founding of the Roman Empire until it died of disease in 2012
