After three years of hiking Georgia’s Stone Mountain, Zach Cross lost weight, gained, confidence, and turned his life around.

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 [...]

This team of extreme athletes may have staged the craziest picnic we’ve ever seen. In an epic video making the rounds on Instagram this week, a group of four skydivers has a leisurely breakfast at a picnic table in the sky, suspended from a hot air balloon floating high above farmland.  The group, consisting of [...]

Earlier this month, South Lake Tahoe resident Toogee Sielsch captured an all-too-relatable video of a sleepy black bear crawling into bed. The footage shows the bear belly-down, wriggling across the ground beneath a porch to get to his favorite spot. In his original post, Sielsch writes that the bear likely weighs upwards of 600 pounds. [...]

Amid the traffic and hubbub of Washington D.C., two western lowland gorillas have found love—and are now expecting. Like many social-media maternity announcements these days, this one came with ultrasound footage. Earlier this week, Washington D.C.-based Smithsonian National Zoo shared a video showing the baby gorilla’s tiny fingers and toes as it grows in mom [...]

If a giant, snow-covered black bear showed up on your porch in the middle of the night, what would you do? For Susan Kehoe, the answer was simple: call it a good boy, and use a tiny plastic rake to brush off the snow. Kehoe, who lives in Highland Lakes, New Jersey, recently posted a [...]

A group of tourists in Thailand recently got a wonderful surprise on a rafting trip. Their boats floated right past an elephant on the banks of the river, who kept waving at them with its trunk. In a video shared by The Independent, you can see the elephant, named Plai Dan Siam, wiggling the tip [...]

Debra Howell was in just the right place at the right time. She was driving down a forested road near Asheville, North Carolina when she caught sight of a black bear, apparently newly emerged from hibernation. The bear had found an obliging roadside tree and was immersed in a particularly hilarious personal care routine: scratching [...]

Those close to Mr. Pickles always thought he’d make a great father. Now, after nearly a century of trying, the 90-year-old tortoise will finally get the chance to find out.   Earlier this week, the Houston Zoo announced that Mr. Pickles and Mrs. Pickles—both endangered radiated tortoises native to Madagascar—welcomed three new babies into the world. [...]

Earlier this February, just before Valentines Day, Deb Hoyt spotted a classified ad for a lonely goose. Blossom, the newspaper ad read, had been recently widowed and was seeking a life partner. Could this be the message from the universe that Hoyt had been looking for? Hoyt immediately called the number, hoping to set up [...]