After repeated protest from animal rights activists, Miami Seaquarium has agreed to release its captive orca, Lolita, into the wild waters of the Pacific Northwest. Lolita has been a member of Miami Seaquarium for about 50 years. She was captured in the wild when she was four years old. At the time, she was name [...]
This week, scientists from the University of Utah detected approximately 60 earthquakes beneath Yellowstone National Park. Their report has caused some tourists to express concern about the safety of visiting the region, which is known for its seismic activity. The earthquakes all occurred within a 12-hour span on March 28. That may seem intense, but [...]
Seafood brand Nueva Pescanova recently announced a plan to open the world’s first octopus farm. While global culinary markets could benefit from having a ready source of octopus, animal rights advocates are raising the alarm. The Spanish company plans to build its facility in the Canary Islands, a quiet archipelago that’s governed by Spain and [...]
All around North America, the car-free park movement seems to be gaining steam. Last year, Rock Creek, a city park managed by the National Park Service in Washington D.C., decided to close five miles of its popular main road to cars. And now, the world-famous Banff National Park in Canada has announced a similar ban. [...]
A mother jackal has done the impossible: When an eagle kidnapped her baby, she pressured it into dropping the pup back down to her. At least, that’s how it looks from the image published last week by Africa Geographic. The shot managed to capture both the desperation of the mother jackal and the terror of [...]
Move over, Pumba — there’s a cooler, younger warthog in town. Her name is Tikiti, she’s one of the newest members of the Dallas Zoo, and she’s absolutely adorable. Baby Tikiti was born on Feb. 17 to proud parents Toby and Weela. She looked a bit like a melon when she was born, the Zoo tweeted, [...]
Whether you had your life changed by the 2017 eclipse — or you missed it and have been living in regret ever since — we’ve got good news. You’ll have another shot at seeing an eclipse in 2023. Better yet, it’ll be visible from more than 20 national park units across the U.S., which means [...]
For the last few months, scientists have been monitoring an enormous, growing mass of seaweed in the Atlantic. Now more than 5,000 miles across—that’s wider than the contiguous United States—the floating blob is headed toward American shores. Brown, spongy, and smelly, the mass of seaweed could wash up on Florida beaches as early as this [...]
Earlier this month, Idaho sledder Jeremiah Bigelow captured heart-stopping footage of a moose charging his brother on a snowmobile. According to Bigelow’s Instagram post, the two were riding along the trail when a moose wandered out of the woods and stepped between them. Bigelow, who was several yards behind his brother with his son and [...]
A Northern Lights event that stretched coast-to-coast across North America last week was so strong that people spotted it as far south as Arizona and New Mexico. The U.S. hasn’t experienced a geomagnetic storm this intense since 2017. Also called the aurora borealis, the Northern Lights happens when the sun ejects tiny particles and sends them [...]
