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Scientists who accidentally came across bizarre life forms on a boulder way beneath Antarctica’s ice shelves are surprised (and puzzled) by their incidental discovery. The find, which was published in Frontiers in Marine Science on Monday, came about as researchers drilled through nearly 3,000 feet of ice in the southeastern Weddell Sea (the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf) when they saw […]
A new study reveals that pigs are not only very intelligent animals, but are great at gaming too. The paper appeared in the Frontiers in Psychology journal, and showed how two Yorkshire pigs, Hamlet and Omelet, and two Panepinto micro pigs, Ebony and Ivory, became adept at playing video games. The pigs were trained using […]
It was like a holiday miracle for Debra Mejeur. Last week, the Michigan resident received a call from an Illinois animal shelter informing her they had located her black Labrador retriever named Lola. It was pleasant, and fairly shocking surprise, as Mejeur had lost the service dog years ago during a family trip to the suburbs of […]
COVID-19 has been discovered on a mink farm in Oregon, where it has infected both staff and animals. According to the New York Post, the USDA’s National Veterinary Service Laboratory has verified the existence of the coronavirus in 10 samples from the farm. The state’s veterinarian, Dr. Ryan Scholz, has instructed the farm to quarantine […]
The bodies of Danish mink that were culled to curb the transmission of a mutated strain of COVID-19 have started to emerge from the ground due to gas bloating. The carcasses began surfacing from their three feet graves at a military burial site in Holstebro, West Jutland, Business Insider reports. The Danish government ordered in […]
Florida is known for being overridden by alligators. While these near-prehistoric creatures would frighten some, people in the Sunshine State have grown accustomed to their aquatic neighbors. This was on full display when a Florida man got into a wrestling match with a gator to save his puppy. Richard Willbanks and his dog, Gunner, were enjoying a day […]
A small town in northern Kentucky has elected a dog as its mayor. Wilbur Beast, a 6-month old French Bulldog, was chosen as the new mayor of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky on Tuesday. The town has never had a human elected to the position, NBC News reports. Wilbur’s owner, Amy Noland, told the outlet that the […]
A woman in Russia was just trying to catch up on her rest but a snake had other plans. Per TMZ, an unnamed woman from Dagestan was rushed to the local hospital after complaining about not feeling well. When she arrived, she told the doctors that a snake had crawled into her mouth while she was […]
A man walking his dog in China was knocked unconscious after a cat fell on him. Here’s the footage, which includes said clumsy cat running away right afterward: I honestly feel like we could end this right here, but I guess I should probably write a few more things. This particular video was posted on August 14, […]
Florida is a wild place and now one man can be a living example of this. Justin Stuller from Estero, Florida went to Florida Keys for a fishing trip, the Fort Myers News-Press reports. But things went left when he was attacked by an eight-foot lemon shark. “I put (the fish) in a hole, and right before I surfaced, […]
