Animals & Nature

Ever notice how ants are always on the move? Their trails seem to go for miles–from an ant’s perspective anyway–but they’re never stalled or stuck waiting for traffic ahead to clear. They’re on a magical freeway where everyone is moving at the same speed with no bottlenecks or accidents. How does this work? And can...

Relationships are tricky, y’all, and that goes double for the moment you realize that your money is now our money. That means you need to discuss before you make decisions with it. A fact that Unsurebigbig3 found out the hard way after he shelled out $5k for his dog’s cancer treatment without discussing it with...

Fish are a lot of things – slimy, weird, googly-eyed, delicious – but until now, human-like is about the last thing I would use to describe them. If I had been the person to see this fish in the flesh – er, scales – I honestly am not sure that I would ever recover. The...

For over a month, the staff at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra noticed that poppies laid on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier were disappearing, one at a time. They were bothered at first because that is desecration, but after a while they spotted the culprit – a pigeon who was filching the flowers...

Cats. Love them, hate them, or too scared to commit (because they’re terrifying), doesn’t matter – they’re just gonna keep being them. Cats have been our companions for thousands of years, and the process by which they came to live amongst and alongside human beings is pretty fascinating. And pretty confusing, too. Good thing there...

I love a good, wholesome animal story, and this one certainly checks all the boxes. In the city of Niš, Serbia, a man named Sasha Pesic has been running a shelter for dogs since 2008. Pesic originally came up with the plan for the sanctuary after he discovered four abandoned puppies on his way home...

I’ve always heard rumors about places you aren’t allowed to fly over (also, places that the Pope refuses to fly over), but it’s all just been speculation and hearsay for me up until now. BUT NO LONGER. I did a little research and decided to learn about the actual places airplanes are not allowed to fly...

Emojis are obviously all the rage (even though, if you ask me, the jury is still out on the whole memoji thing), but have you ever stopped to wonder how correct the little figures of insects, plants, and animals really are? And I mean really correct, not just recognizable. I bet you haven’t, but entomologist...