Bethanie is a writer, editor, and author of animal-science books for kids. She covers camping, hiking, gear, inspiring stories, wildlife, adventure travel, and more for the Outdoors.com. She always has a few camping trips on the calendar.
Most people don’t expect to come home from a camping trip with the Bubonic plague like one camper recently did. Get the details here.
When a homeowner decided to put a kiddie pool in his backyard to attract birds, he didn’t expect a huge black bear to come take a dip.
A rip current swept two young men away while they were wading in waist-deep water at Huntington Beach along Lake Erie.
A large black bear broke into an ice-cream shop in northern California. Wildlife officials share the bear’s mug shots and preferred flavor.
Two bull elk had it out in a street in Estes Park, Colorado, near Rocky Mountain National Park, and a passerby caught the action on video.
“Does everyone have this problem?” (He’s referring to the snakes—the ones seeking refuge in the roof of the family’s fixer-upper.)
A rare pure-white dolphin treated a group of people on a boat tour with a once-in-a-lifetime sighting last week in a Virginia Harbor.
A mountain lion strolled right into a home, stared at a man standing in the kitchen, and then scurried out the back door. Watch here.
A trail cam video from a winery in Fremont, California caught a bobcat vs. a deer . . . vs. another bobcat. Watch here.
A family of four dove into the ocean for a swim and a bottlenose dolphin decided to join in on the fun—see the video here.