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.
A compilation of trail-cam footage from Swan Valley in northwest Montana shows some really great moments in nature. Watch here.
The 2025 Nikon Comedy Wildlife competition is heating up with less than a month left to get in on the fun. See some funny entries here.
This must be the cutest snake whisperer on the internet. A popular video shows a brave toddler girl wielding two long snakes.
A massive animal galumphing around Gordon’s Bay, a harbor town at the southern tip of South Africa, caused quite a stir. See it here.
A 17 year old achieved her goal by summiting Mount Everest and completing all Seven Summits, making her the youngest American woman to do so.
A crop of mushrooms growing by a community playground were a deadly variety—Galerina marginata. Area officials are warning against foraging.
A world-famous eagle family has exciting news to share: One of the babies, a viral eaglet named Sunny, has taken her first flight. Watch here.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office had a good idea to use a laser pointer lure a bobcat from a woman’s home in Colorado, but it fell flat.
A lion tragically killed a man while he was camping in a remote area of Namibia, and some are calling the death “ironic.”
A couple of tapirs in Guatemala wanted to cool off in a small watering hole . . . at the same time. Thankfully, a trail cam was there.