The international ivory trade has been banned since 1990. Despite this, poachers still kill roughly thirty thousand African elephants every year [1]. What makes things worse, is that the killing of mother elephants leaves hundreds of orphaned baby elephants to fend for themselves.  Baby elephants need a lot of care from their mothers during the...

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A Premiere Daily Highlight Story: Sometimes there are tales that are just too good, too beautiful, or too unbelievable to keep locked away. That’s why we scour the archives and bring some of them back to experience again. They may surprise you, make you smile, or even shed a tear, but they’re always meant to add...

Life in Africa can be harsh and brutal. It’s even harsher if you’re an elephant trying to escape a poacher. Poaching is considered easy money for criminals and high-ranking kingpins. However, getting caught means either imprisonment or death, depending on where you are and who catches you. With risks like that, why would anyone do...

More than 50 years after it was first taken, an image considered to be the “best UFO picture ever taken” has been made public. Now, most of us are accustomed to seeing the same grainy photo of what is probably just an accidental glow lantern taken with a mobile camera from someone’s garden when we...

The eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia on November 13, 1985, led to one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in South American history. The once-thriving town of Armero, home to 29,000 residents, was almost completely wiped out. Approximately 20,000 people perished in the town alone, and the death toll across the...

Being alive is hard. Children, animals, the elderly, and even plants suffer. Life is extremely hard for many around the world. Similarly, sometimes moments happen that cause such great distress one wonders if they’ll ever recover. We all have heard or seen tales of poverty from countries worldwide, reminding us to be grateful for what...

Are you a fan of the Jurassic Park films? Though in the movie the dinosaurs obviously went rogue, is there a part of you that secretly wishes we could resurrect extinct animals? Well, you’re in luck (kinda)! Scientists have made what could be the first step to that coming true, though you might be a...

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. ...

In 2019, scientists discovered one giant female tortoise on the pristine Fernandina Island, an active volcano in the Galápagos Islands. The tortoise named Fernanda descends from a species scientists believed extinct for over a century. “The significance of the find is huge,” said Evelyn Jensen, co-first author of the ground-breaking publication in the journal Communications...

A team of scientists is working to “reincarnate” the extinct woolly mammoth through genetic modifications. The Texas-based biotech company Colossal claims it will create a creature that closely resembles the prehistoric animal by 2027. They explained that their de-extinction goal is to make “a cold-resistant elephant with all of the core biological traits of the...

More than a decade after his passing, people are still talking about the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.  Most recently because of a new documentary about the late singer’s Neverland Zoo. In the documentary, Ross Kemp highlights the poor treatment of the animals. For the inhabitants of Neverland, it was a much less magical place....