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Why Is This Guy Babysitting 100,000 Tiny Baby Lobsters? 

Joe Redfern has spent the last few weeks caring for about 100,000 tiny lobsters. Each crustacean is about the size of a thumbnail and has its own little plastic corral. That’s not to give them their privacy, though; it’s to keep all the toddling youngsters [...]

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Video: Police Officer Saves Hawk from Snake’s Stranglehold

A Florida deputy recently released body camera footage of a heart-warming—but perhaps questionable—rescue scenario. A small snake had captured a hawk in a chokehold, and the officer had spotted the struggle at just the right time.  In the video, you can see the officer kneel [...]

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Gator Busts Through Porch Screen to Swim in Family Pool

Last week, a Florida woman went outside to walk her dog on a typical Wednesday morning. The last thing she expected to find was a massive, 11-foot gator cooling off in her pool. According to local news outlet WFTV9, the enormous reptile got in by [...]

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Family Finds Mutated, Hot Pink Grasshopper in Their Backyard

An 8-year-old boy was hunting for bugs in his yard in Arkansas City, Kansas, last week when he found something he didn’t expect: a hot pink grasshopper. The bug, he later discovered, has a genetic mutation that makes it a light magenta instead of green. [...]

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Why Are So Many People Enrolling in Survival Schools?

Interest in bushcraft and outdoor survival skills has skyrocketed over the past few years, especially among some surprising new demographics. According to NBC Boston, survival instructors in the Northeast experienced a huge boom in business starting around 2020. Other wilderness schools have reported similar boosts [...]

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New Research Explains Why Outdoor Kids Are Better-Behaved

New research suggests that spending 30 to 60 minutes outside could not only improve your child’s physical health, but lead to better behavior at home, too. We should note that research on the effect of nature on kids’ health is not new. We’ve long known [...]

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Watch: Rare “Snow Tornado” Rips Across Scotland

Last week, Scottish farmer Michael Peterson looked up from his sheep — and spotted a tornado ripping across his back field. But unlike the tornados of the American Midwest, this one was made almost entirely of snow. Peterson was able to film the “Snownado” using [...]

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Friendly Reminder: It May Be Baby Animal Season — But You Still Need to Be an Adult

Spring is on its way — and so are the baby animals. For some people, that just means a good reason to keep the [...]

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New Study: Bees Give Each Other Dance Lessons—and Have to Practice to Get Better

It’s no secret that bees “dance” to give each other directions to nearby food sources. But a new study has just proven that, contrary [...]

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Now Streaming: Bear Grylls-Produced Documentary “Finding Michael,” filmed in Everest’s Death Zone

The feature-length documentary Finding Michael, about Spencer Matthews’ search for his brother’s body on Everest, is now available to stream in the U.S. on [...]

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Why Is This Guy Babysitting 100,000 Tiny Baby Lobsters? 

Joe Redfern has spent the last few weeks caring for about 100,000 tiny lobsters. Each crustacean is about the size of a thumbnail and [...]

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Video: Police Officer Saves Hawk from Snake’s Stranglehold

A Florida deputy recently released body camera footage of a heart-warming—but perhaps questionable—rescue scenario. A small snake had captured a hawk in a chokehold, [...]

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Gator Busts Through Porch Screen to Swim in Family Pool

Last week, a Florida woman went outside to walk her dog on a typical Wednesday morning. The last thing she expected to find was [...]

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Family Finds Mutated, Hot Pink Grasshopper in Their Backyard

An 8-year-old boy was hunting for bugs in his yard in Arkansas City, Kansas, last week when he found something he didn’t expect: a [...]

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Why Are So Many People Enrolling in Survival Schools?

Interest in bushcraft and outdoor survival skills has skyrocketed over the past few years, especially among some surprising new demographics. According to NBC Boston, [...]

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New Research Explains Why Outdoor Kids Are Better-Behaved

New research suggests that spending 30 to 60 minutes outside could not only improve your child’s physical health, but lead to better behavior at [...]

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Watch: Rare “Snow Tornado” Rips Across Scotland

Last week, Scottish farmer Michael Peterson looked up from his sheep — and spotted a tornado ripping across his back field. But unlike the [...]

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