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Two mountain bikers at Whistler Mountain Bike Park in Canada nearly ran into a couple of black bears hanging out on the trail. Watch here.
A diver says he harbors no hard feelings toward the shark that attacked him off the coast of Fiji, even though it nearly cost him his leg.
Which is more ridiculous, a squirrel completely unafraid of standing next to a hawk or a hawk that can’t catch a squirrel standing next to it?
One woman came across a rattlesnake in the water in South Carolina, and she’s sharing it to remind others that rattlesnakes can swim.
Wildlife officials fired tranquilizer darts at a mountain lion in a residential area, but the animal pulled one of the syringes out.
A state park recently shared an image of a cooler that had been padlocked shut . . . and yet, a bear still managed to rip it open. See here.
Earlier this week, an accident presumably related to rock climbing claimed the life of Jake Whisenant, a speed-climbing record holder.
A viral video shows a young girl looking on as a bear hangs out in her family’s backyard pool and plays with her mermaid dolls.
A drone pilot recorded what some scientists believe to be the first and only drone footage of a humpback whale giving birth. Watch here.
Hikers in Canada’s Jasper National Park stumbled upon a bear and a moose at the same time while walking on a trail known for moose sightings.