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Zoo celebrates birth of newborn eastern bongo, a critically endangered species

It’s always a special day at a zoo when a new baby animal is born, especially when they are a part of an endangered species. Each new birth is an important step towards ensuring the species’ future survival. Now, one zoo is celebrating the birth of an adorable eastern bongo, a critically endangered species. Potter Park Zoo, in Lansing, Michigan, recently announced that a female eastern b

BREAKING🚨: Something Just Crashed Into The Moon And Astronomers Captured It

Using cameras set to monitor the moon, Daichi Fujii, curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum, recorded an event that occurred on February 23 at 20:14:30.8 Japan Standard Time (7:14 a.m. EST, or 1114 GMT). The event appears to be a meteorite impact, and it was located near Ideler L crater, slightly northwest of Pitiscus crater. Meteors travel on average at around 30,000 mph (48,280 kph), or 8.3

Raccoon Forms Sweetest Friendship With Deer Who Lost Her Mom

Last year, licensed wildlife rehabilitator Carrie Long received a call about a baby raccoon in distress. At just 3 weeks old, he’d been abandoned by his mother and was found clinging to life during a rainstorm. Long, who specializes in rescuing orphaned deer as part her nonprofit, Texas Fawn and Friends, decided to take the raccoon in. She named him Jasper. “We weren’t sure he was was

Guy Opens Car Door And Spots A Giant Spider At An Awkward Moment

The other night, Andrew Mcleay was enjoying a quiet evening at home in Australia when things took an unexpected turn. Mcleay needed to grab an item from his car in the garage, but upon opening up the car door, something stopped him in his tracks. There, dangling from the sunshade, were what appeared to be two giant spiders — each measuring about 5 inches wide. The mere sight of such

We’re About To Witness A Super-Rare Planetary Alignment In March’s Early Morning Sky

Depending on the time of year, we may view various amazing sights out in space when we gaze up into the night sky. Unfortunately, the sky has seemed relatively empty during the last month. But, as it turns out, all you have to do is know WHEN to look. The planets visible to the naked eye are now on the opposite side of the planet (the sun-facing side.) Every evening of the month, you might g

NASA has discovered an ‘ocean world’ where one year lasts just 11 days

NASA has discovered a water planet 100 million light years away from Earth that completes an orbit of its star every 11 days. A group of astronomers at the Université de Montréal came across the ocean planet through NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite or TESS, according to a study published in The Astronomical Journal. CNET reports that the planet covered by a blanket of water,

Mexico’s Tule Tree Has the World’s Thickest Trunk, And It’s Still Growing

Located a church courtyard, in the picturesque town of Santa Maria del Tule, the Tree of Tule is a 2,000-year-old Montezuma cypress famous for having the world’s thickest trunk. So just how thick is Mexico’s Tule Tree? Well, it takes thirty people with arms extended joining hands to fully encircle it, so that should give you an idea. Officially, it has a circumference of 42 meters, which so

‘Sad And Depressed’ Shelter Cat Is Unrecognizable In His New Home

Some animals are able to hide their emotions, but Fishtopher isn’t one of them. The 5-year-old rescue cat’s mood is usually written all over his face. After being found as a stray in New Jersey, Fishtopher spent some time at Homeward Bound Pet Adoption Center, and his sullen expression directly reflected how he felt about being there. Even though Fishtopher loved his caregivers at the shelte

Welcome To Setenil De Las Bodegas: The City Built Beneath A Rock!

Setenil De Las Bodegas Was Built Into & Beneath A Stunning Spanish Cliffside Image: @earthbestshots on InstagramSetenil de las Bodegas in Spain brings a whole new meaning to the term “living under a rock”. While this town of 3,000 may literally be under a rock, the town itself is inspiring, full of history, and very current on many tourist directories. The reason for settling under

Scientists Find Crows Are Capable of Recursion — A Cognitive Ability Thought to Be Unique to Humans and Other Primates

According to a new study, crows possess the cognitive ability for one of the linguistic elements that make human language so complex. Image credit: Ian Sane In the early 2000s, Noam Chomsky and other linguists thought that if there was one thing that belonged specifically to human language, it was recursion, and that this was what distinguished human language from animal communication. As it tu