According to ABC News, the mouse plague on Australian farms began 10 months ago, and it’s been brutal. The rodents eat new crops, destroy farm machinery, and even bite people in their beds. Many farmers lost hundreds of thousands of dollars due to damage, and their crops are unable to recover from the recent drought....
If you didn’t know goats made amazing pets, you might be in for a shock. More people are starting to follow the trend and include goats in the list of possible household animals. In fact, The American Goat Society recorded an 8% increase in the number of registered Nigerian dwarf goats between 2014 and 2017....
An Amazon employee fell to his death in the warehouse in North Las Vegas. After speculation on the cause of his death, the Clark County coroner’s office proclaimed it a suicide. After the police were called to handle the situation, all employees were sent home with pay to return the next day. The company also offered...
Vanessa Hensley and her partner, Aaron Saini, entered KFC in Exeter only to discover its “absolutely disgraceful” lack of meat-free meals that they had once offered. The pescatarian claimed she felt “discriminated.” “We were all going to treat ourselves as a household to a family bargain bucket and also a vegetarian meal for myself,” she said....
Many people assume great white sharks dominate the aquatic food chain. It’s the largest and deadliest predatory shark in the world with hundreds of dagger-sharp teeth. So many people were shocked to witness a pod of killer whales attacking and killing at least two great white sharks off Mossel Bay in South Africa. Although researchers...
Scientists in China have genetically modified a tobacco plant to produce cocaine in its leaves. Cocaine is a chemical compound called tropane alkaloid, which naturally appears in the leaves of the Erythroxylum coca plant. The drug is infamous for its abuse and highly addictive nature. Still, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved...
Researchers accidentally discovered that swarming bees can produce an electric charge. Ellard Hunting and his colleagues at the University of Bristol in the UK were tracking weather in a field station. However, their electric field monitors found an increase in atmospheric electric charge although there were no storms around. The researchers realized the charge came...
A photo of two hunters posing with two small dead elephants sparked outrage online. Featured were Mike Jines, an executive at an energy company, and professional hunter Max “Buzz” Delezenne during an expedition in Zimbabwe. After the photo went viral, Jines received death threats from people enraged at the killing of baby elephants. However, Jines...
Corinna Smith, 59, poured boiling water with sugar over her sleeping husband, Michael Baines, 80. Her daughter had told her that Michael had sexually abused her and her brother when they were children. “Livid” and “fuming” Smith boiled up two kettles of water and mixed it with three bags of sugar in a garden bucket....
Phoenix lived a sad life. He suffered from an auto-immune disease that disfigured his face and was likely abandoned by his owners. Fortunately, Skiatook Paws & Claws Animal Rescue found the dog and brought him to a veterinary clinic. The vets diagnosed Phoenix with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), a complicated disease with complicated treatment. But...
Believe it or not, cows are not all meaningless mooing and slow blinks. A study suggests that these animals communicate with each other about how they feel through their vocal expressions. Cows may not be the most intelligent creatures out there, but they are some of the compassionate, and humans must learn to respect this. ...
Happy birthday to Jonathan the giant tortoise, who turned 190 years old this year. He is the oldest living animal, according to Guinness World Records. Additionally, Jonathan is the oldest chelonian — a category of animals that include tortoises, turtles, and terrapins — ever recorded. He resides on the remote tropical island of St. Helena,...
