When a pair of bombs went off at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, Rebekah Gregory, along with many other runners, barely survived the blast. Two years since the incident, she’s undergone a tremendous 35 surgeries, including one this past November…
Costa Rica. Deep in the recesses of the jungle canopy, Kermit’s doppelganger has just emerged from hiding. Have a look. The lime green skin. The ping-pong ball eyes. He could be the muppet’s stunt double. Hyalinobatrachium dianae was discovered by…
It turns out that, like us, wild chimpanzees have learned to respect the roads and protect themselves from oncoming traffic. Pretty amazing. Watch as the timid teenager swivels his head from side to side as the alpha male waits for…
It’s 2015, America, and on average, women still make a paltry 78 cents to a man’s dollar. Admittedly, that is an oft-quoted statistic. But there is a new report that dives a whole lot deeper and examines this discrepancy along…
If ever there was an unsung hero, it’s the social worker. These are the people who, on a daily basis, reach out to those whose lives have been fractured. And while many simply don’t realise just how important their job is…
It’s not that far-fetched is it? A man in Tokyo owning a giant tortoise and enjoying daily strolls around town. Ok, it’s not so run-of-the-mill, but this is Japan after all. Turtles have a lot of upsides as pets, such as…
A Utah hunter has received death threats on Twitter after comedian Ricky Gervais posted a photo of her grinning with her kill (WARNING: images of dead animals). Ricky Gervais posted this photo on Twitter, after which it went viral. What must've happened to…
This half-man, half-cat creature is going viral, and for good reason. The gargantuan, hyper-realistic cat noggin you see before you is the brainchild and handiwork of Housetu Sato and his students at the Japan School of Wool Art. In fact,…
His species decimated by poachers. His breed all but extinct. Sudan the white rhino finds himself in a decidedly perilous position. He is the last male northern white rhinoceros on the planet and the survival of the species rests solely…