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 flood didn’t stop a bunch of people from visiting this In-N-Out Burger for a hamburger. Sometimes you just have to risk it all.
When a Florida panther crossed paths with an opossum, a trail camera was there to capture the drama. Watch it here.
When you’re in the wild, you expect to encounter wild animals, but here are six times animals showed up in weird and unacceptable places.
An opossum in Nebraska learned the hard way that a human’s diet doesn’t always work out after it ate an entire chocolate cake from Costco.
A massive whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off the coast of Chili as his father looked on in horror. See it go down.
Camping just might be an inflation-proof activity, according to The Dyrt’s 2025 Camping Report. See some of the report’s insights here.
A young deer was struggling for its life and likely within minutes from dying when two men pulled her out of an icy lake and into their boat.
Not all big cats can roar like a lion, a tiger, or a leopard. Snow leopards make this sound instead. (Volume up.)
Male Amazon river dolphins swim to the surface, roll over, and pee straight up into the air, and they don’t do it for the ladies.
When this woman came across a mountain lion in a nearby tree, she had the opposite reaction a lot of people would have. Watch it here.