Watch the sweet moment this chimpanzee sees the sky for the first time
Meet Vanilla the chimpanzee. She’s 28 years old but, until very recently, she’d never seen the open sky. Vanilla spent her early years in a biomedical research laboratory in New York where chimpanzees...
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Leatherback sea turtle nest discovered on Outer Banks island is first since 2012
Tuesday, June 20 was a happy day on North Carolina’s Outer Banks for conservationists and animal-lovers. A routine check on Ocracoke Island revealed a leatherback sea turtle nest filled with more than...
View ArticleBaby flamingo captivates with adorable video at Ohio zoo
Who doesn’t love to gawk at adorable baby animals at the zoo? No one, that’s who. So the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is making sure its social media followers get a glimpse of its babies as...
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Blood-sucking sea lampreys on the rise in Great Lakes again
Chalk it up to another unfortunate side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic: Blood-sucking lampreys are back. Sea lampreys are parasitic fish from the northern Atlantic and Baltic, western Mediterranean...
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This angler set a new record by catching a 12-pound largemouth bass
Angler Lea Anne Powell caught the fish of a lifetime. She was fishing on Texas’s O.H. Ivie Lake in February when she caught a huge largemouth bass. The International Game Fish Association just...
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5 ways to attract dragonflies to your yard to help eliminate mosquitoes
There’s a lot to love about summer, but mosquitoes are one seasonal nuisance most people could do without. You can try to combat pesky mosquitoes with bug zappers and sprays, but neither of those...
View ArticleGray whales come to tour boat’s captain for help with parasites
We’ve seen plenty of heartwarming stories about people and animals becoming bonded and helping one another in some way. Many of these stories involve domesticated animals like dogs or cats — others...
View ArticleA giant panda just gave birth to adorable twin cubs
A giant panda named Ai Bao just gave birth to female twins at Everland Panda World in South Korea. This is the first time panda twins have ever been born in the country, according to a statement...
View ArticleLouisiana fisherman spots rare pink dolphins in river
Buzz for the new “Barbie” movie, which debuts in theaters this Friday, has everyone seeing pink. But are members of the animal kingdom picking up on the trend, too? While the answer is probably not,...
View ArticleZookeepers surprised when gorilla thought to be male gives birth
Last week at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio, zookeepers discovered that one of the western lowland gorillas was holding a baby. Not only did they not know that eight-year-old Sully had been...
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Post-menopausal female orcas protect their sons, research suggests
Scientists have long wondered what the evolutionary purpose of menopause is. Why would limiting the time a female individual has to procreate have advantages for the six known species that experience...
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Study reveals which zoo animals enjoy seeing human visitors, and which don’t
We go to the zoo because we like being in the presence of wild animals. But do they like to be around us? A study from researchers at Nottingham Trent University, Bolton University and Harper Adams...
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This worm woke up after being frozen for 46,000 years
A small but mighty prehistoric creature somehow emerged alive from a chunk of ancient permafrost extracted from Siberia. This might sound like the start of a science fiction blockbuster movie, but a...
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Roseate Spoonbill spotted in Wisconsin is first in 178 years
Animals tend to appear in the strangest places when we least expect them. While some are a welcome sight, others may shock us with their presence and leave us scratching our heads wondering, “Huh?”...
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Thousands of tarantulas will soon be crawling across this state
It’s mating season for tarantulas. Southeast Colorado is home to thousands of the creepy crawlers. Every year in August and September, the male tarantulas leave their burrows in masses and begin...
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Red Lobster restaurant finds rare orange lobster
For the second time in just about a year, a Red Lobster location has decided to save one of the lobsters the restaurant received. When unpacking a shipment earlier this summer, the staff at a Red...
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How to attract bats to your backyard
Here are three commonly held beliefs about bats: They’re blind, they often have rabies and they want to drink your blood. Would you be surprised to hear that none of these are actually true? All three...
View ArticleA playground closed due to a mouse sighting and an investigation is underway
A city in Wisconsin announced Monday that their Imagination Station Playground will be closed due to an investigation after the sighting of a mouse and burrow hole. City officials say a site review...
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How lightning bugs glow, and why bioluminescence helps them survive
In certain parts of the U.S., summer nights begin with an unbeatable light show. As dusk settles in, tiny yellow-green beads of light pulse in the darkness: lightning bugs just starting out for the...
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A cockroach trapped between glass on a plane goes viral
When animals go viral, it’s often because they are super adorable, have fun facial expressions or maybe because they like to sit upright and … hold things, like Linus the chinchilla on TikTok....
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