2+ hour, 18+ min ago  (20+ words) Compassion for Punch the monkey's viral orphanhood should extend to babies deprived of their mothers via third-party reproduction....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (60+ words) Video from inside a Long Island home showed the massive infestation of domesticated rats that led to the homeowner's arrest.Video shows the wounded rats running all over the debris and garbage left inside the home as volunteers work to…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (503+ words) Prosecutors are requesting that a woman be imprisoned for three years after her dog mauled a 9-year-old boy because of her negligence.Patrycja Siarek's dog Capo was under a muzzle order when she brought it to the Little Norway Park…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1084+ words) Ninety-six million Americans now call themselves bird-watchers.That's nearly one in three people. What was once the domain of retired dentists with too much time and too many thermoses has become a national pastime.'You don't need equipment to go…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (306+ words) Disaster nearly struck eastern Mississippi on Tuesday, Oct. 28, when a truck hauling lab monkeys from Tulane University crashed, with several of the animals fleeing the vehicle.While all but one of the escaped monkeys were "destroyed" " according to the Jasper…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (845+ words) Imagine dawn breaking over Nevada's badlands. A herd of wild horses charges across the sagebrush, manes whipping in the wind " living emblems of American freedom, the soul of the West. Then the silence breaks. Helicopter blades thunder overhead, driving the…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1643+ words) Animal lovers beware: Some of the biggest charities in the biz are more than happy to bite the hand that feeds them.At least, that's the contention of one Washington, D.C.-based watchdog.'While these groups sit in Manhattan and Washington…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (893+ words) Something strange is stirring in our silicon age. Across continents, people are falling head over heels for artificial beings made of pixels and code. They whisper secrets to chatbots, plan futures with fabricated personalities, and even talk of marriage to…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (842+ words) Harold Bloom once told me that the squirrels outside his house were taunting him. He was old and wise, and therefore I believed him " even if it seemed crazy at the time.Or did I believe him? I certainly remembered…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (374+ words) On July 24 in Queens, New York, a man dragged a pit bull onto a public street, doused the body in a flammable liquid, and lit it on fire. Surveillance footage captured every second. The man responsible later admitted to kicking…...