Jet setting and globetrotting aren’t necessarily the most environmentally friendly pastimes. To encourage responsible traveling, Ethical Traveler has rated travel destinations according to four categories, to determine which countries you should visit if you want to maintain the moral high ground among your well-traveled friends.
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.
A letter allegedly penned by a survivor of the Titanic on 8 August, 1955 – more than 43 years after the disaster, has recently surfaced. It depicts the first hand-account of French maid, Rose Amelie Icard’s harrowing experience of the Titanic’s demise.
Watch as a construction worker is saved just in time from a burning apartment building in Houston, Texas, United States (of America), on Tuesday. The video footage of the rescue was caught on video by nervous onlookers from the building across the road.
The small rural community of Arlington, Washington, has been almost completely destroyed, following a massive mudslide. The death toll has risen to 14 with many more citizens unaccounted for. The before and after pictures show just how devastating the landslide was.
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.
Sometimes we all get so wrapped-up in the cacoon of our hum-drum lives that we forget about just how incredible our planet really is. For most of us living amongst the greyness of the average city-scape, we tend to focus on our first-world problems and forget about the sheer magnificence which is the natural beauty of our home.
At least three people were killed when an explosion caused two buildings in New York’s East Harlem neighbourhood to collapse. The source of the explosion is still unknown, but one tenant claims there were complaints by residents of “unbearable” gas smells in recent weeks.
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.
Who actually uses Google’s Street View for directions anymore? We use it for our casual Sunday stroll through Parisian cobbled streets, and sitting next to blurry faced cafe patrons enjoying a croissant and a coffee. Google has recently added more underwater Street View maps, perfect for a scuba adventure from your desktop.
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.
This real life photo of the snow storms in the southern parts of the US, resemble what the aftermath of an alien invasion would look like. Just add a couple of dead aliens with Will Smith walking away on the foreground smoking a cigar and saying a witty catch phrase.
Mass flooding all over Southeast England has some parts of the UK looking more like Venice. It is the wettest January the country has seen since 1766. The Thames River is a major concern as more than 1100 homes have flooded along its banks in London during the past weeks.
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.
Usually visitors of Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens are inclined to have a nice picnic or take a casual stroll between the flora. But a new Treetop Walkway in South Africa’s favourite botanical garden may attract those with the spirit of Tarzan. Still under construction, the walkway – nicknamed the ‘boomslang’ – will open to the public in April.
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.
Residents of a farmhouse in Ronchi di Termeno, Italy, narrowly avoided being turned into mincemeat by two massive boulders. One of the little guys rolled straight through their pastures and into the barn, whilst the other one dry-humped the exterior of the house.
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.