Poignant new footage captures an orphaned baby rhinoceros seeking solace from its keeper. Four-month-old Gertjie is seen nuzzling a female member of staff from the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre in South Africa with his nose. In a bid to get closer to her, the thick-skinned creature rolls down on to the floor and affectionately lays his head on her lap. Creature comforts: Poignant new f
Babies who are exposed to animal dander, roach allergens, and household germs during their first year appear to have lower allergy and asthma risk, a new study shows. You’re probably familiar with the hygiene hypothesis: Children who grow up in germ-free, too-clean environments develop hypersensitive immune systems. Previous work has shown that children growing up on farms, with regular ex
You just have to watch this amazing video of a man and his friends and family who saved a humpback whale. It’s completely worth the 8 minutes of your time, especially when you see what happened at the end. Michael Fishback, a co-founder of the Great Whale Conservancy, spends 2 months each year in the Sea of Cortez photographing whales, helping to track them, and observing their behaviors.
YouTube user Alexandr Mish recently created this heartwarming compilation of people rescuing various animals in need. The touching four-minute video features a fox with his head stuck in a jar, an elephant calf trapped in a hole and a whale tangled in a shark net, among others — and the great efforts of the kindhearted people who saved them.
These 3 Cute Kittens Are About To Steal Your Heart. The One On the Left Is My Favorite!
During a safari, a baby calf is released in hopes that a lion would give it chase and have “nature take its course” while people record and photograph the circle of life. As hoped, a lion does begin to give the baby calf chase but then something miraculous happens after the young animal is captured. The Lion seems to befriend the baby calf and when another lion comes in for the kill, protec
Click for slideshow. Photo: Reddit user Biophilia_curiosus Can’t Wait Until They Find the Full-Sized Species… A Reddit.com user by the name of Biophilia_curiosus posted a few photos that he took in Indonesia. They show an amazing species of gliding lizard which basically looks like a miniature dragon. Fans of the film Avatar will be reminded of the flying Toruks… More photos below.
A bear in Florida apparently was in desperate need of a nap earlier this week - lucky for the bear, it happened to come across the perfect spot for a late-day snooze: A hammock in someone's backyard. The American Black Bear reportedly was spotted in a Daytona Beach neighborhood knocking around trash cans and scaring some of the neighborhood's residents on Wednesday night. About 7:45 Thursday, t
The small dog is a Yellow Labrador and the other a "Broholmer" - an old Danish breed. Apologies for the wrong breed description in the final credits. Two dogs waiting patiently to get served in "restaurant", and in spite of waiting, never get anything to drink. This video has had many positive comments - thanks to all of you. Some people though are worried for the dogs - were they forced a
One little girl has a sea lion wrapped around her tiny finger. Or at least that’s what it looks like in a popular video, in which a young girl is seen running back and forth along the sea lion wall enclosure at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington D.C. while a sea lion swims back and forth excitingly following her. While similar scenes may play out at zoos across the country freq
Photographer Finds Locations Of 1960s Postcards To See How They Look Today, And The Difference Is Unbelievable 
Hij zet 3 IKEA kastjes tegen elkaar aan en maakt dit voor zijn vrouw…Wat een gaaf resultaat!! 
Scientists Discover 512-Year-Old Shark, Which Would Be The Oldest Living Vertebrate On The Planet 
Hus til salg er kun 22 kvadratmeter – men vent til du ser det indvendigt 
Superknepet – så blir snuskiga ugnsformen som ny igen! 
Meteorite That Recently Fell in Somalia Turns Out to Contain Two Minerals Never Before Seen on Earth 
Nearly Frozen Waves Captured On Camera By Nantucket Photographer 
It’s Official: Astronomers Have Discovered another Earth 
