Friday feel-good video: Hume the koala bear released back into the wild

June 5, 2015

Hume the koala bear was supposed to be an in and out patient, but he turned out to be the most long-term patient the…

Giraffe with broken neck spotted in Serengeti National Park has zig zag profile

June 1, 2015

Animals with extensive injuries don’t normally survive in the wild where only the fittest endure. So it was an amazing sight for photographer Mark…

120,000 saiga antelopes wiped out in Kazakhstan in “catastrophic” die-off

June 1, 2015

Something strange and disturbing is happening in central Kazakhstan. More than 120,000 saiga antelopes have suddenly died there, representing about a third of the…

World Turtle Day and two centuries later, scientists now know how the turtle got its shell

May 25, 2015

We missed it but that doesn’t mean we should mark the occasion of World Turtle Day. It happens on May 23rd every year and…

Baby hippo Devi makes outing as protective mom shields her calf from public

May 22, 2015

Hippo mamas are known for being very protective and at the San Diego Zoo, Funani, the mother of 8-week-old Devi is always close by…

Gigantic squid with 16-foot tentacles washes up on New Zealand beach

May 22, 2015

Some things are huge but this giant squid qualifies for massive. The squid washed up at the beach at South Bay in New Zealand…

Young hot-blooded squirrels grow older, wiser and slow the hell down

May 21, 2015

For the past three decades, scientists with the Kluane Red Squirrel Project have been studying the aforementioned “tree-dwelling critters” in the southwest corner of Canada’s Yukon territory. A niche area…

Afternoon cute alert! One-week-old clouded leopard quadruplets make adorable debut

May 20, 2015

The clouded leopard quadruplets born at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium near Tacoma, Washington last week had their first outing yesterday. The cubs…

Incredible sight! Bear climbs electric pole to raid a crow’s nest

May 20, 2015

Sometimes you go looking for something and something else entirely appears in front of you. The director of media relations for American gun company…

Suriya the orangutan adopts tiger cubs and bottle-feeds them

May 20, 2015

Suriya the orangutan who lives at the Myrtle Beach Safari in South Carolina has taken to heart the phrase Monkey See, Monkey Do. After…