Animals & Nature

We’ve seen dog shaming, kid shaming, cat shaming, and even fish shaming – so why shouldn’t birds get in on the action? Because as anyone who owns or has owned birds can tell you, they can be just as big of a**holes as any other pet – and these 22 birds are definitely wearing that...

You probably know by now that the world’s ability to produce food is connected to the availability of a thriving bee population. Bees are nature’s most integral pollinators, responsible for pollinating 75% of the world’s crops. And they’re dying at a rate that’s almost impossible to comprehend – to the tune of 500 million bees...

The Amazon rainforest is ablaze, and experts say this wildfire will affect climate change for years to come. CNN reported that The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has said the fires are burning at the highest rate they’ve seen since tracking started in 2013. Sao Paulo, 1700 miles away, is seeing smoke from the...

If you think that libraries are just for housing and protecting important books and papers, think again. There’s the global seed library in Svalbard (consider how you’re going to get there in the apocalypse), the Ice Memory collection in Antarctica, and now, the Puratos World Heritage Sourdough Library in St. Vith, Belgium. The world’s only...

If you’re lucky enough to live in certain regions of the U.S. or the U.K., you may have spotted squirrels that are black instead of gray. These unusual animals have been a bit of a mystery, but now scientists have figured out why they have such an odd color. Researchers at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge...

It’s common knowledge that cats and dogs respond very differently to their names. Dogs can be counted on to come running on command, while cats will frequently ignore you completely. But it turns out that cats do recognize and react to their names, according to new research. Researchers in Japan conducted a series of experiments to study...

When NoNienNietNon‘s friend expressed a desire to own a purebred pug, he went all out in trying to convince him otherwise – by showing him the cruel differences between a pug skull and the skulls of other, less bred dogs. fuck intentionally breeding physical deformities into animals for the sake of vanity There are plenty...

At the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in Washington, D.C., is a piece of Japan’s history that dates back to the 17th century. It’s a bonsai tree, gifted by master Masaru Yamaki to America on its bicentennial. The 392-year-old white pine is the oldest tree in the collection – it was planted in 1625, cultivated...