Author: Sia

The homeowners said that the dog had been chained outside for a minimum of 5 years. Mandy and her husband went straight over. They saw that the poor dog had no food or water. He simply stood there, in the dust, on a chain– the only life he knew. They were both amazed. The lead…

They may appear cute and cuddly, but as one alligator soon learned, otters can be vicious predators. These photos show an otter overpowering a juvenile gator and despite the reptile doing its best, it was no match for the fanged weasel-cousin. The animals were spotted at Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge in Florida, where it…

An orangutan has finally learned how to nurse her baby after a breastfeeding zookeeper showed her how it was done. Zoe, a long-term resident at the Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, had not learned the skill from her own mother after being orphaned at just nine months old. Her firstborn had to be hand-raised and,…

Jaw-dropping images show the torn-apart body of a gazelle fawn hanging from the mouth of an 82-pound alpha-male baboon in Kenya – even though the creatures often work together to keep an eye out for predators. Jaw-dropping images show the torn-apart body of a gazelle fawn hanging from the mouth of an 82-pound alpha-male baboon…

But that doesn’t mean we can clone extinct species Jurassic Park-style A team of researchers found what seems to be DNA in a 125-million-year-old dinosaur fossil – though how the fragile biomolecules survived fossilisation remains a mystery. Alida Bailleul, a palaeontologist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and her colleagues found the biomolecules in a…

The Oldest Plesiosaur in Town – Rhaeticosaurus mertensi The fossilised remains of the world’s oldest plesiosaur described to date are reported in the journal “Science Advances”. The animal has been named Rhaeticosaurus mertensi. Following the end-Permian mass extinction event, the world’s ecosystems took several million years to recover.  In marine environments, just as on land,…

In one image, a 140-pound spotted hyena bit down into the lion’s side as the lion continued to snarl at the pack surrounding it, despite the gruesome attack. In another, the 400-pound lion closed in on the buffalo carcass after fending off the hungry hyenas for six hours. The hyenas took turns launching themselves at the…

As the rescue center was already at maximum capacity, they reached out to their associate, the Helen Woodward Animal Center located in Rancho Santa Fe, California for assistance. As the rescue center was already at maximum capacity, they reached out to their associate, the Helen Woodward Animal Center located in Rancho Santa Fe, California for…

Mystery as hundreds of sheep seen silently standing in ‘unnerving’ circle formation A cyclist was forced to jump off his bike and do a double take after he spotted an unsual livestock formation – which the internet has hilariously dubbed a “ewe-FO” A cyclist feared he had encountered a flock of sheep under alien mind…

Mars orbiter image shows a crashed flying saucer…. or something else entirely Seen above is a tiny portion of an image captured in 2006 by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It depicts “the bottom of Candor Chasma, a large canyon in the Valles Marineris system” of the Red Planet, according to University of Arizona scientists. But…