New Research Reveals The Personality Trait That Predicts Whether You Will Seek Out A Cat When Stressed
A study published in the journal Anthrozoös, conducted by researchers at Washington State University and KU Leuven in Belgium, has identified the personality trait most likely to predict whether someone will seek out a cat for stress relief rather than a dog, and the answer has a name: emotionality. Researchers surveyed more than 1,400 university […]
A Kitten Found Covered Head To Tail In Industrial Glue Just Made A Full Recovery And Has A New Home
When a good Samaritan in Fort Worth, Texas, discovered a small kitten stuck in a bucket of industrial-strength glue near an industrial area in April and rushed him to the Humane Society of North Texas, shelter staff were not sure the tiny animal would survive the night. The glue was covering every part of his […]
An Alaska Animal Shelter Lets You Borrow A Dog For 48 Hours And It Is Leading To More Adoptions
The Anchorage Animal Care and Control shelter in Alaska launched a program in spring 2025 called Tails on Trails that has since become one of the most talked-about shelter initiatives in the country, pairing volunteers with a shelter dog for 48 hours and sending them out to explore the trails and wilderness around Anchorage together. […]
Scientists Gave Monkeys A Reward-Free Video Game And They Played Nearly 100 Rounds Anyway
Researchers at Kyoto University’s Institute for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior set out to test whether curiosity in Japanese macaques follows the same pattern observed in humans, and what they found should resonate with anyone who has ever gone down a late-night internet rabbit hole for no practical reason whatsoever. The team built a […]
Birdwatching Among Gen Z In Britain Has Grown By Over 1000 Percent Since 2018 And The Reasons Why Are Beautiful
Birdwatching has quietly become one of the fastest-growing hobbies among young people in Britain, with new research from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds finding that nearly 750,000 people aged 16 to 29 now birdwatch regularly, a staggering increase of more than 1,000 percent since 2018. The study found that Gen Z participation […]
Colorado Just Banned Pet Store Dog And Cat Sales
Colorado has become the latest state to ban the sale of dogs and cats in pet stores, with Governor Jared Polis signing the measure into law this week and declaring that Colorado is going to help shut down the puppy mill pipeline. The new law, formally known as House Bill 26-1011 and nicknamed the Pistol […]
A Canadian Tow Truck Driver Found A Moose Trapped In Ice And Said All His Other Jobs Could Wait
Clint Gottinger, a tow truck operator in Kelvington, Saskatchewan, was heading out to two jobs last Saturday evening when he spotted a yearling moose at a frozen junction near his home, exhausted and trapped in the ice, and made a decision that has since made him briefly famous across Canada: everybody else had to wait. […]
The Internet Just Voted On The Funniest Wildlife Photo Of The Year And The Winner Is Perfect
The internet has voted, and the winner of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards’ Sterna People’s Choice Award is a deeply relatable photograph of a gannet on a very bad hair day. UK photographer Alison Tuck captured the winning shot on a breezy afternoon at Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire during nesting season, when a gust of […]
Scientists Just Found The Fossilized Remains Of A Snake That May Have Been Up To 50 Feet Long
Paleontologists working in India have announced the discovery of one of the largest snakes ever to have lived on Earth, a prehistoric giant called Vasuki indicus that slithered across what is now the state of Gujarat roughly 47 million years ago and is estimated to have reached a staggering length of between 36 and 49 […]
The Worlds Oldest Penguin Just Turned 38 And Her Birthday Cake Was Exactly What You Would Hope
A Humboldt penguin named Spneb has just celebrated her 38th birthday at Paradise Park Wildlife Sanctuary in Hayle, Cornwall, making her the oldest Humboldt penguin on the planet according to global zoo records, with a lifespan that has nearly doubled the species’ typical life expectancy in captivity. Keepers marked the milestone on April 16th with […]