2+ hour, 13+ min ago  (758+ words) LAGO DI TESERO, ITALY " Before he became the most famous dog at the Olympics, Nazgul was not known as an escape artist. Still, his owners, Enrico and Alice Varesco, were not taking chances when they left him alone at their…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (120+ words) Whooooo's that calling?! Join the Boone County Conservation District for a special evening program to discover all about owls! The program will start indoors at the Roger Gustafson Nature Center for a presentation about IL owls and then head outside…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (148+ words) Every Sunday, Mexico City shuts down the Paseo de la Reforma, the most important street in the country, to car traffic. That means that each week more than 100,000 people get on bikes and skates and rollerblades to roll past some…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (42+ words) At the American University of Beirut where up to 1,600 rescued cats roam the campus. In Lebanon, a college campus welcomes cats abandoned in war At the American University of Beirut where up to 1,600 rescued cats roam the campus....

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (279+ words) Connie Seraphine salutes our eight-armed friends. Perspective: The smartest animal in the world I am a lover of all animals. On our sheep farm, I've loved lambs, especially those I've helped raise as "bottle babies." We've had intelligent sheep herding…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (501+ words) There have been many daring escapes from Alcatraz, the notorious prison off the coast of San Francisco. But what about a daring escape to Alcatraz? In a tourist video shot last month, you see a coyote paddling through the frigid…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (363+ words) On the day after Christmas we said goodbye to our feisty, fiery, lovable and cuddly 12-year-old orange tabby cat named Socks. He wasn't himself that week and a late-night visit and admission to the emergency veterinary clinic in Rockford showed…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (74+ words) Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death. An exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a volcanoes-Black…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (60+ words) NPR's Ailsa Chang goes on a nighttime hike in search of spiders, with Lisa Gonzalez of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. A spider scientist makes the case for why we should love arachnids NPR's Ailsa Chang goes…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (992+ words) On a clear September night along the San Marcos River in central Texas, a handful of people in headlamps gathered around a small, noisy creature: an evening bat. Melissa Donnelly, a science specialist with the nonprofit Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation,…...