Animals & Nature

Kentucky is synonymous with fried chicken, Wildcats basketball and horse racing. Apparently we need to add sharks to the list. Scientists recently discovered a shark skull inside a cave in Kentucky that dates back quite a few years. And we’re not talking a few decades. The 330-million-year-old skull was found in the 400-mile long Mammoth...

Valentine’s Day is all about spending time with that special someone and trying to make great memories that will last a lifetime, right? Maybe a nice night out on the town? Dinner, dancing, then back to their place? And then breakfast in bed the next morning? Or something like that? Well…maybe not for everyone… A...

The quartet of wolves aren’t just tourists checking out the sights; they were helicoptered into Isle Royale national park to dine on some very fine Michigan moose. The moose population in the state has reached critically high levels without any of their natural canine predator left in the area, but killing moose is only part...

Internet fame can be fleeting, especially if you’re a cat. The online world loves cats, and we’re always ready to embrace another adorable, unique, funny kitty when they leap insistently onto the screen, but there are just so many of them! That said, when you’re as funky and cool as this cat – right down...

It’s amazing to see the transformation that animals go through after they are adopted and given unconditional love. In the before photos, you can see how dejected, sad, and depressed these dogs were. But the after pics? A completely different story. A 100% turnaround! You might want to get a box of tissues because these...

Here’s the thing about spiders: the fact that some of them (a very small number, but still) have venom that could injure and kill a person means that human beings are evolutionarily coded to fear them. It’s self-preservation, survival of the species, and all of that. Personally, I’m not afraid of spiders, per se…but I...

I’ve heard this one before, and from my own dad. He swore up and down that he didn’t want a cat, and he got pretty annoyed when us kids started feeding a stray that eventually became part of the family. And then what did he do? Fell in love with it and went and got...

Opossums have a horrible reputation; they’re often seen as dirty, ugly, and just plain gross. But contrary to what many people think, there are definitely some positive attributes to the opossum — the only marsupial found in the United States and Canada. Unlike other small wild mammals, opossums almost never contract or spread rabies. They...