This Stunning “Fire Snail” Only Lives in a 100Km Radius in Malaysia
Endemic to a very specific area on the Malaysian Peninsula, the Fire Snail – named after its bright red foot – is one of the rarest, most sought after snail species in the world. Platymma tweediei was first discovered in 1938, in Telom Valley, Malaysia’s Cameron Highlands district. Since then, it has also been spotted […]
Meet Blaze, the Black Labrador Retriever Turning White Because of Vitiligo
Blaze, an outgoing Labrador Retriever from Finland became an overnight internet sensation after photos showing his color change from black to white went viral on social media. Blaze was born with a pure black fur and stayed that way for most of his life, but last year, his human master, Santeri, noticed a small white […]
Japanese Aquarium Asks People to Video-Call Its Eels During Coronavirus Lockdown
Staff at a Tokyo aquarium have appealed to the general public to help them keep their garden eels accustomed to humans by video-calling the marine creatures during the current Covid-19 pandemic, when the venue is closed. The coronavirus pandemic has already affected the way we live, but it’s apparently taking a toll on aquarium eels […]
Aquarium Draws Criticism for Writing Popular Surnames on Live Fish
In a bid to make its exotic fish tank more appealing to visitors, an aquarium in the Chinese city of Guizhou wrote popular Chinese surnames on the live fish, attracting the wrong kind of attention in the process. Staff at the Guizhou Polar Ocean World thought they had struck gold when they came up with […]
Sheep Returns Home After Seven Years of Living in Tasmanian Bush
Prickles, a bare-faced merino sheep that ran away from a Tasmanian farm during the 2013 bush-fires, recently returned home, probably after deciding that it was finally time for a sheer. According to farmer Alice Gray, Prickles was only a lamb when she ran away, seven years ago. The bush fires that ravaged the area back […]
Woman Hatches Duck Egg by Carrying It in Her Bra for 35 Days
A California woman is being praised for going above and beyond to ensure that a cracked duck egg she found in a park hatched, by incubating it in her bra for over a month. Betsy Ross, an independent contractor from Visalia, California, was walking with her family in a public park when her kids noticed […]
ASMR YouTuber Sparks Outrage with Videos of Herself Eating Live Seafood
A very popular video content creator from South Korea has come under fire for making “horrifying” videos of herself feasting on live seafood like octopus, squid and prawn. Ssoyoung is a popular youtuber whose content can be described as a mix of ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) and ‘mukbang’ (online videos in which a host […]
World’s Loneliest Dolphin Dies After Years Spent Alone in Abandoned Aquarium Pool
Honey, dubbed by activists and animal lovers ‘the world’s loneliest dolphin’, died last month, after almost two years spent by herself in a small pool at an abandoned aquarium in Japan. We originally featured Honey’s tragic story back in October 2018, when footage shot by Japanese animal rights activists showing a single bottlenose dolphin floating […]
This Company Creates Awesome Portraits of Your Pets as Lords
If you’re looking to have some goofy fun while quarantined in your own home, how about investing in a high quality portrait of your pet as a pompous royal? Enter Crown & Paw, a company dedicated to helping pet owners honor their bundles of joy by creating hilarious digital portraits of them as generals, princes, […]
Pet Cat Survives 40 Days Locked in Apartment After Human Family Is Hospitalized with Coronavirus
Le Le, a British Shorthair cat from Wuhan, China, has become a symbol of resistance during the current pandemic, showing us human that if she could survive by herself in a locked apartment for 40 days, then we can handle a bit of social distancing and isolation too. This story of feline endurance and survival […]
World’s Smallest Bird Lays Its Eggs in a Nest the Size of a Quarter
Only slightly larger that the insect it’s named after, the Bee Hummingbird weighs no more than two grams and lays eggs roughly the size of coffee beans. It is officially the world’s tiniest bird. Found only in Cuba, the Bee Hummingbird is extremely small even for a hummingbird, so much so that people often mistake […]
Meet Xherdan, Unofficially the World’s Scariest-Looking Cat
We’ve featured our share of famous internet felines, from grumpy cats, to incredibly beautiful fur balls, but we never really posted about scary-looking felines. That ends today, with Xherdan, the scariest-looking sphinx you’ve ever seen. The phrase “a face only a mother could love” is usually used maliciously, but in the case of Xherdan, a […]
Apparently Horses Can Grow Lush Mustaches Too, Who Knew?
You’ve probably seen photos of horses sporting luxurious staches and thought to yourself “that must be fake”, but it turns out that horses can indeed grow mustaches. From curly mustaches worthy of classic cartoon villains, to locks that reach way past their snout, horses can grow mustaches in a variety of styles. And the strange […]
Russian Hunters Shoot Giant Wolf That Terrorized Remote Village
Photos of hunters struggling to lift up a giant wolf they had shot so they can pose with it have been doing the rounds on social media this week. The incredibly large animal was reportedly shot near the village of Aleksandrovka, in Blagoveshchensk district, the autonomous Republic of Bashkortostan, where packs of wolves had recently […]
This Lizard Shoots Blood Out of Its Eyes to Keep Predators at Bay
We’ve featured some interesting animal defense mechanisms in the past, from moths that camouflage as two flies feasting on bird poop, to caterpillars that mimic snakes, but this horned lizard’s secret weapon is on another level of weirdness. The regal horned lizard is a small reptile native to Mexico and the southwestern United States. Their […]