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“Go to Banff, they say. It’ll be fun, they say,” joked Anton Haie in a viral video showing a massive grizzly bear walking toward hikers.
Search-and-rescue crews airlifted two hikers and their dogs from a snowy peak in Clark County, Nevada. Watch footage from the rescue here.
Betty Reid Soskin was the oldest active ranger in the U.S. until her retirement from the National Park Service at the age of 100.
Insane footage from Guatemala shows tourists and a group of coatis when, suddenly, a jaguar, leaps from the shadows and snatches up its prey.
One Australian woman couldn’t believe her eyes when she realized there was a possum curled up inside her Christmas tree. Watch here.
A photographer says camera traps require a lot of patience, but with persistence, a few brilliant shots can make all the effort worth it.
In a truly bizarre, a woman who went geocaching ended up with a deadly snake caught in the tiny loop at the back of one of her sneakers.
Harrowing footage shows first responders rescuing a baby in a carseat by sliding it across a ladder extended over a raging river. Watch here.
A Yellowstone Volcano Observatory webcam recently caught a unique sight—a “dirty eruption” at the park’s Black Diamond Pool at Biscuit Basin.
A trail cam placed in Ohio spotted a rare animal that scientists haven’t seen in the area since the 1800s. See it here.