Animals & Nature

If you have a cat (or five), you know that you spend a lot of time cleaning up after them as they shed. You’ll find mounds of fur in the corners, under the beds—basically everywhere and anywhere. Japanese photographer Ryo Yamazaki and his wife Hiromi have come up with an inventive way to use all...

Samples of the highly contagious (but eradicated) disease smallpox only exist in two laboratories in the world. As a relic of the Cold War, one is in the United States, and the other is in Russia – and the one located in Russia recently weathered an explosion. The smallpox sample, along with cultures of anthrax...

Move over, Google. An eco-friendly search engine saw a 1150% increase in daily downloads in a single day after the Amazon rainforest fires. Ecosia is a search engine that uses 80 percent of its profits from advertisements to plant millions of trees in Brazil, Ethiopia, and other emerging economies, Business Insider reports. The website claims...

If you’ve never been to the Outer Banks, let me first say that you should put them on your bucket list. The chain of barrier islands just off the coast of North Carolina are beautiful, serene, and somewhat otherworldly – and not just because there are herds of wild horses roaming the beaches. https://www.instagram.com/p/BlQiqCdHl8F/ The...

Bug lover and photographer The Butterfly Babe takes amazing images of all sorts of creepy crawlies. But of all the bugs out there, perhaps the most adorable (it’s an arachnid, technically) are these tiny jumping spiders wearing droplets of water as hats. Yes, I just used the word “adorable” when describing spiders, and once you...

Filed Under: Nightmare Fuel Apparently, corpses don’t stop moving for up to a year after death, due to the various decomposition processes they go through. Which makes me wonder how many of those bells rang at Victorian gravesides even though the people in the coffins were, in fact, dead. Yikes. https://www.instagram.com/p/BxCqg45FJw1/ The research that brought...

There aren’t a lot of upsides when you’re talking about hurricanes. Hurricane Dorian was huge and powerful, leaving death and destruction throughout the Bahamas before moving to brush the southeastern coast of the United States. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1_pLt8hKPO/ There, it brought carnage and left floodwaters and debris, but it also uncovered something pretty special: two Civil War...

The manchineel tree is one of nature’s mysteries that no one is likely to solve anytime soon – every single part of it is toxic to animals (including humans). Also known as the beach apple, la manzanilla de la muerte (the little apple of death), or sometimes arbol de la muerte (tree of death), the...