Imagine adopting an adorable puppy, giving it a loving home for two years then realizing your beloved pet is more ursine than canine. When Su Yun and her family were on vacation, they thought they were buying a Tibetan mastiff puppy. However, it turns out they purchased a bear cub.  At first, the family, who [...]

A black bear in California’s Los Angeles County had a bit of a mishap when it tried to fit its massive body into a tiny tub of water.  The hilarious incident was captured by a security camera last year, but bear antics are timeless, and it’s making the rounds once more.  The giggle-worthy footage shows [...]

A large bison at Parc Oméga, a wildlife park in western Quebec, had a startling encounter with visitors when it got its head stuck in an open car window.  The hilarious incident, which took place in 2021, shocked park visitors and staff alike.  According to Leonardo Heizer, a visitor at the park who captured the [...]

Minnesota is home to one determined mother eagle. Snow often falls during bald eagles’ winter nesting season, but this mama had to dig deep when her nest became completely buried in a two-foot snowstorm this weekend. The eagle, spotted on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ EagleCam, remained still even when only her head remained above [...]

Last week, a four-year-old Andean bear escaped from his habitat in the St. Louis Zoo, sending the entire facility into an hour-long lockdown.  Guests and staff were corralled into safe indoor facilities while the zoo staff worked to secure the bear, named Ben. According to news network KMOV-TV, Ben was ultimately subdued with a tranquilizer [...]

In 1985, a convicted drug smuggler named Andrew Thornton allegedly dropped 75 pounds of cocaine from a plane along the Georgia-Tennessee border before he died from a parachuting accident. The stash was eventually discovered by a bear who reportedly ingested a few grams of the powerful drug. The bear was later found deceased in the [...]

Usually, the most dangerous thing you’ll encounter in New York’s Prospect Park is an overly aggressive pigeon. So, imagine the surprise of park staff when they spotted a large alligator emerging from one of the ponds. The beast, which measured a full four feet long, sent onlookers running. He was quickly nicknamed Godzilla. After the [...]

Albuquerque police stumbled into an unlikely surprise while chasing down the source of gunfire in Albuquerque, New Mexico last month. They followed the sound of shooting to a mobile home, where they found the culprit—as well as a four-month-old baby tiger. The tiger, which had likely been obtained illegally as part of the black-market pet [...]

After weeks of waiting, visitors to Yosemite National Park were treated to a fiery spectacle this weekend. When the conditions in California’s Yosemite Valley are just right, the sun rises behind Horsetail Falls, one of the park’s marquee cascades. When that happens, the falls light up as if on fire.  This “firefall” is a stunning [...]

You might think the name “giant phantom jellyfish” is a little dramatic, but you’ve never come face to face with a Stygiomedusa gigantea. Just recently, a group of international scientists with the Viking Expedition Team became the first to nab photographic evidence of the elusive creature — and prove that it definitely lives up to [...]