Tiger? No. Monkey? No. Elephant? Close. The most trafficked mammal in the world isn’t that well known, and therein lies the problem. This pinecone with legs is disappearing from the face of the earth, while almost no one knows of its existence.
This boxer puppy does an eternal handstand while he makes the best of a bad situation. Watch a dog named Duncan Lou Who enjoy the beach without his doggy wheelchair.
This just goes to show that you can’t trust a dolphin in war – they’re bladdy turncoats. Following the annexing of Crimea by Russia, the Crimean combat dolphin programme will be preserved and will serve under the Russian Navy. They serve only the hand that feeds them the best smelly fish.
Trying to get rid of a rodent problem with rat traps, to no avail, led this YouTube user to install a video camera in his closet to see why the traps weren’t working. Instead of rats he found a squirrel.
Finnish magician, Jose Ahonen has made many things disappear in front of many audiences, but few have been as expressive in their vexation as this group of dogs. Cue delight, followed by confusion, bafflement, and then fear. Please enjoy.
Last year a Chinese zoo was busted for trying to pass one of these dogs off as an actual lion. But don’t expect to be able to afford one of these puppies. A golden-haired one-year-old Tibetan mastiff puppy was sold in China at a luxury pet fair for R21 million.
Thanks once again, Russia, for a terrific YouTube video. What you have here is your standard house hold dog, banished from the bed. Throw in an absent owner and a hidden camera, and you have YouTube gold.
Had enough trials and tribulations with the start of a new working week? Take a breather and check out man’s best friend enjoying a dog’s life at a doggie day care.
Poaching is a horrible reality threatening South Africa’s endangered species. Some times we are desensitized to the plight of the animals being killed in our national parks. Hopefully this heart wrenching video of an injured rhino will invoke more people into combating poaching.
Welcome to the Thunderdome of the animal kingdom, a.k.a Australia. This three metre python fought a five hour battle with a crocodile, won, and slowly swallowed it whole, proving once again that Australia’s animals are not to be messed with.
With only 1500 grey nurse sharks left off the east coast of Australia, marine life veterinarians and divers rushed to the aid of one particular grey nurse shark in distress. A diver spotted the animal tangled in an elastic cord.
America’s top dog honours went to Sky the wire fox terrier, winning best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club. The wire fox terrier breed has won the prestigious event for the 14th time, no other breed has won more than eight times.
So depressed she wouldn’t even face possible owners visiting the shelter she was kept at in San Bernardino, California, Chelsea’s days were numbered. Due to be put down on Thursday, few were interested in adopting her. But leave it to the Internet to save the day.
This 5 foot jelly fish was found washed-up on the coast of Tasmania, Australia. It’s described as looking like a dinner plate with a raggedy mop hanging below it, but we have yet to encounter a dinner plate almost 1.5 metres in diameter. A family out for stroll at the beach came across this specimen lying upside.
Due to its inhospitable habitat and minuscule population, the Snow Leopard rarely gets photographed. National Geographic published the first ever photo taken of the animal in the wild as recently as the 1970s – and only a handful of people have had any luck ever since.
This video was originally posted to YouTube in 2011, but its making a massive comeback now thanks to Reddit.
Experts have warned English port authorities that a 30 year-old abandoned ship could be about to land on Britain’s shore.
A team of scientists and researchers have discovered a previously-unknown species of dead-leaf toad in the mountains of the Peruvian Andes.
Andre Prinsloo and Ruhan Janse van Vuuren, the sculptors behind the newly-erected Nelson Mandela statue at the Union Buildings, have a secret hidden in Madiba’s ear. Because they weren’t allowed to put their signature on any part of the statue – they decided to take matters into their own hands – they put a little rabbit in there.
We’ve seen dogs do it, so why has it taken so long to see a cat on a skateboard?
Anyone who owns a cat will know that felines, despite their placidity, come with their share of problems.
In the past, the Dutch were always credited for being the first Europeans to land on Australian shores, when they arrived at the land down under in 1606.
Remember when we last posted a story about an exploding whale? Well get out your sick-bags ‘cos we’ve got another one for you.
Yes, truly. Innocent, if poorly written, Mills & Boon novels have given way to classics like ‘Cum For Bigfoot’. It seems ’50 Shades of Grey’ has woken the Kraken of human sexuality, and now the ferociously horny are looking for something a little more…exotic.
For some reason, scientists have successfully made two pigs glow green when placed under a black light.
Last weekend, Shigenori Goto became the latest fisherman to mistakenly haul up a very rare giant squid in his fishing nets.
It’s a tricky task, trying to figure out precisely how old a shark is. It has mystified marine biologists for decades – and it was just a matter of time before we developed tech that’s good enough to give us accurate results. That time only happened quite recently.
Believe it or not, conjoined whales are not new to science. They have been seen before in Fin whales, Sei whales and Minke whales – but conjoined gray whales have never been documented before.
An American hunter, Rick Dyer, has recently claimed that he shot and killed bigfoot, and he is now now planning on taking it “on a tour” of the States.
The Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery is a whacky, mad-scientist think tank that is as close as you’ll get to a modern-day Willy Wonka factory, and they’ve made a headset for dogs – a headset that allows you to hear what your dog is thinking.