This Funny Looking Christmas Tree Will Keep Your Pets Away from Your Precious Ornaments
Christmas trees add a lovely, cozy touch to the holiday season — until your cat or dog gets their hands on it. Pets are naturally curious about Christmas trees, and for good reason! What animal could resist a brand new tree in the middle of your living room with a bunch of bright, shiny, dangling...
Unicorn Puppy Has a Tail Growing out of His Head
A puppy has been dubbed a “unicorn” due to the tail growing out of his head. Missouri-based rescue organization Mac’s Mission discovered the puppy wandering outside in the freezing cold. The rescuers were shocked to find that the adorable little pup had a very unusual feature: a growth protruding from between his eyes. Yep, this...
Do Toilets Flush in Opposite Directions in Opposite Hemispheres?
It’s common knowledge that toilets swirl in the opposite direction in opposite directions. But is it actually true? The story holds that, in the Northern Hemisphere, toilets spin counterclockwise. In the Southern Hemisphere, they spin clockwise. This is supposedly due to something called the Coriolis effect, an acceleration caused by the rotation of the Earth...
This Guy Used to Make Fun of Tiny Dogs, Until a Chihuahua Saved His Life. Now, He Rescues Them.
Apparently, there is a certain set of people who think small dogs are dumb. Or, maybe, not very manly. My fella was once verbally harassed in a McDonald’s drive thru for having my papillon on his lap, so this is definitely real. Luckily, my husband is confident and my dog was awesome, so whatever. Bobby...
A Second Woman Pulls Parasitic Eye Worms out of Her Eye, and Doctors Fear It’s Just the Beginning
My husband likes to watch shows like Monsters Inside Me, and let me tell you – I’ve never been as paranoid to climb in a lake or take a hike in the tropics as I am after living with him for six years. And this species of worm that infects human eyes seems like it...
Meet Mojito, the Golden Retriever Puppy Who Emerged a Lovely Shade of…Green
In a twist that seems more worthy of Oz than plain old Earth, a regularly-colored golden retriever has given birth to a green puppy. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4C6INKAE4p/ Just one – the other eight members of the litter were all hued similarly to their parents (and presumably, their parents before them). Little Mojito was born just before Halloween...
A Million Cannibal Ants Have Escaped from an Abandoned Nuclear Bunker
In a bizarre, isolated microcosm of nature, hundreds of thousands of worker ants have been forced to survive by eating the “corpses of their imprisoned nestmates” after they found themselves trapped in an abandoned nuclear bunker in Poland. Apparently, some individuals fell through a vent in the ceiling and were unable to climb back up...
It Turns out Aussies Have Been Eating a Fish Previously Unknown to Science
To be fair, Australians already confront crazy-looking (and deadly) animals on a daily basis, so it probably never occurred to them to question a fish that tasted pretty okay and didn’t kill anyone once ingested. They probably didn’t expect to find out, though, that literally no one had ever heard of or seen the fish...