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This Dog Fell Overboard and Was Rescued After Swimming Six Miles to Shore

Good dog.
Erik Shilling September 2, 2016
Modoc's Market
Wabash, Indiana

Modoc's Market

This shop is named for a runaway elephant who smashed through its doors, stole some peanuts, and spent five days on the lam.
snakes

What's So Endearing About Snakes and Toads? Ask a Herper

It's like bird watching, but for reptiles and amphibians.
Eric Grundhauser September 1, 2016
animals

Found: The First Identical Twin Puppies Ever Discovered

It's rare for other animals to have identical twins.
Sarah Laskow September 1, 2016
animals

Found: A Giant Slug the Size of a Cat

Seek a giant sea slug and ye shall find.
Sarah Laskow August 31, 2016
Plaque
Glocester, Rhode Island

Memorial to Betty the Learned Elephant

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.
Tetrapod Trackway
Kerry, Ireland

Tetrapod Trackway

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.
animals

In 1975, a Cat Co-Authored a Physics Paper

Meet F.D.C. Willard, the feline who published.
Eric Grundhauser August 30, 2016
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Hundreds of Reindeer Killed by Lightning in Norway

They were apparently huddled together out of fear during a storm.
Erik Shilling August 29, 2016
Jumbo the Elephant statue, St. Thomas, Ontario
Saint Thomas, Ontario

Jumbo the Elephant

The statue of the famous elephant who was the original source of the word "jumbo".
animals

Watch These Albatrosses in Hawaii Have a Dance Off

When the world's largest protected place on Earth is your dance floor.
Atlas Obscura August 26, 2016
animals

Watch This Gazelle Spring Across the African Savanna Like a Pogo Stick

Gazelles' "stotting" or "pronking" behavior may be a defense signal to predators.
Lauren Young August 25, 2016
Spit shine on The Moose of Cow Bay
Cow Bay, Nova Scotia

Cow Bay Moose

This huge 12-foot concrete moose on the coast of Nova Scotia is the grandest of the sculptor's giant creatures.
Tamri, Morocco

The Tree Goats of Morocco

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.
Edward Penniman House and Barn
Eastham, Massachusetts

Captain Edward Penniman House

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.
animals

Let's Talk About Puffins

The clowns of the sea need our help.
Eric Grundhauser August 22, 2016
Cell phone light trails illuminating the caves of Mønsted Kalkgruber.
Stoholm, Denmark

Mønsted Kalkgruber

Nearly 40 miles and 1,000 years of limestone mines under Denmark.
Front porch at Flyways
Baraboo, Wisconsin

Flyways Waterfowl Museum

At this Wisconsin museum there are real ducks, fake ducks, duck calls and a Duck Blind.