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Kevin Hart snuck an iced-out goat into Madison Square Garden during his and Chris Rock’s show with surprise-opener Dave Chappelle last weekend and presented it to the former as a gift. Hart detailed the exchange while on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and said the gold chains-wearing goat served as the cherry on top of a legendary night […]
A Florida county has been forced into quarantine after officials confirmed the presence of a dangerous snail species. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced the finding last week, when a master gardener reported seeing a Giant African Land Snail in the New Port Richey area of Pasco County. According to the department, the […]
A Colorado man was taken to the hospital Monday after he was gored by a bison during a visit to Yellowstone National Park, NBC News reports. The unidentified 34-year-old victim was walking with his family on the boardwalk near the Giant Geyser at Old Faithful when the bison charged towards them. The group didn’t heed what […]
A member at a South Carolina yacht club died this weekend after an alligator dragged them into a retention pond near Myrtle Beach. The Horry County Police Department announced the news on Friday via Facebook, revealing that the victim was “near the retention pond at the time of the initial incident” and that the alligator had “retreated into […]
A 23-year-old zookeeper in Mexico died of a heart attack Monday after he was attacked by a tiger while petting the animal, Metro reports. José de Jesús stood next to the chain-link fence enclosure and called over the Bengal tiger for feeding time. De Jesús extended his right hand through the gate to pet the tiger who initially […]
A man in Florida was found dead after he decided to search for Frisbees in a lake with surrounding signs warning people to beware of alligators, CBS News reports. Largo Police Department confirmed via email Tuesday that “a gator was involved” in the death of an unidentified 47-year-old man in John S. Taylor Park. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission […]
A man in Australia was involved in a six-minute wrestling match with a kangaroo last week and the epic altercation was captured on video. Cliff Des was at his home when he heard his dogs barking and looked to see what the commotion was about, only to find a six-foot-tall kangaroo “trying to rip my little dogs out […]
Besides acting, James Cromwell is a recognized animal rights activist—and on Tuesday, he was protesting the extra cost of vegan milk in a New York City Starbucks. Footage shared by PETA shows the 82-year-old actor with his hand glued to the register counter of a Starbucks. He’s seated next to another man and a woman […]
A scientist has decided to name a newly-discovered species of millipede after none other than Taylor Swift, calling the insect a Nannaria swiftae—a.k.a. a Swift Twisted-Claw Millipede. As reported by Rolling Stone, Virginia Tech scientists Derek Hennen, Jackson Means, and Paul Marek named 16 new species in a paper published by ZooKeys, and Hennen revealed the naming of the Tennessee bug on his […]
Wildlife officials have launched an investigation into the fatal stabbing of a bottlenose dolphin. According to WSVN, the female mammal was found washed ashore last month on Fort Myers Beach in Florida. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration conducted a necropsy shortly after, and found the dolphin had been impaled in with a spear-like object right above its right […]
