You Can Cuddle Pigs And Feed Them Cookies At This Animal Sanctuary
Where are my pet lovers? *raises hand* Are you thinking this is another post about doggos or kitties? Sorry to disappoint, but read on. I’m talking about pigs! Did you know that over the last 22 years “the number of mini-pigs [owned] in the United States and Canada has risen from 200,000 to perhaps as...
Fungi That Eats Radiation Are Thriving in Chernobyl
Chernobyl has gotten plenty of attention since the radiation explosion that happened in April of 1986 – people are fascinated with disasters, of course, but also with the ideas of apocalypse and what humanity and the world around it might look like if something similar happened on a wider scale. In much smaller, but still...
This Is What Millions of Monarch Butterflies Sound Like
If you’re someone who grew up in the migration path of monarch butterflies, then the pretty, fluttering insects probably have a special place in your heart (I know they do mine!). My mother is a teacher and at the end of every summer we would stop on the way home from the lake to traipse...
An Astronaut Shared the Moment Her Dog Saw Her for the First Time in Almost a Year
Even though Christina Koch is a NASA astronaut, this video proves that she’s just a regular person who loves her pets like family just like the rest of us do. Koch recently spent almost a year in space (328 days, to be exact) and her journey was the longest ever in space for a woman....
It Was 65 Degrees in Antarctica Recently and Scientists Know Why
In my opinion, there are few things scarier in our world right now than the drastic climate change we’re seeing and how it affects places as far flung as Antarctica. So the news that the continent recently experienced its hottest day EVER is causing me even more anxiety. Yes, Argentina’s Esperanza Base, at the very...
Miner in Russia’s Arctic Circle Takes Beautiful Photos of Foxes on His Work Breaks
In the north-eastern Chukotka region of Russia’s remote and mountainous Arctic, one photographer finds the animals living there and captures them with his camera on his breaks from mining. The environment is bleak, and sparsely populated with ethnic Russians, Chukchis, and other indigenous peoples. There are virtually no roads and people here survive mostly by hunting reindeer....
Sleep in a Bubble Surrounded by Rescue Elephants in a Thai Jungle
If you’re looking for an outdoor adventure experience, we think we’ve found something you’ll like. In a jungle in Thailand, you can sleep in a bubble in the midst of freely roaming elephants. These extraordinary accommodations are called “Jungle Bubbles,” and are only found at the Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort in Northern...
Penguins Have Been Documented Using the Same Speech Patterns as Humans for the First Time
It seems as if there have been more and more reports of different animals displaying increasingly human characteristics, like making and developing tools, but most of the instances have been in our closer genetic relatives. So it feels a bit off to say it’s not monkeys, but penguins, whose speech patterns could closely mirror those of...