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Animals

A 1956 photo of Lassie, prolific PATSY Award winner (Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)

The Glorious 30-Year Star-Studded Past of the Oscars for Animals

From 1951 to 1986, a separate ceremony was held for actors who happened not to be human

Jessie Guy-Ryan February 27, 2016

Video Wonder: An Orca Playing With a Human Friend

Urvija Banerji February 26, 2016

Video Wonder: Giant Coconut Crab Climbing Around and Crushing Things

Tao Tao Holmes February 25, 2016

Why 150,000 Penguins Missing From Antarctica May Actually Be Alive

Erik Shilling February 24, 2016

Interacting with bucket cats.

Memphis, Tennessee

House of Mews

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

Skyline Drive

Cañon City, Colorado

Skyline Drive

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

A Japanese cat celebrates both days at once.

Fleeting Wonders: Cat Day and Ninja Day Collide in Japan

Cara Giaimo February 23, 2016

13 Bald Eagles Found in Mysterious Mass Death Incident

Erik Shilling February 23, 2016

Before Cat Memes, There Were Louis Wain's Controversial Cat Illustrations

Andy Wright February 22, 2016

Aigues-Mortes, France

Salin Aigues-Mortes

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Chapada das Mesas

Santa Terezinha, Brazil

Chapada das Mesas National Park

High plateaus and beautiful waterfalls frame this ecologically significant nature preserve.

Scientists Have Cracked The Mystery Of Where Puffins Winter

Erik Shilling February 17, 2016

The turkeys in question, menacing a different part of the street.

Fleeting Wonders: New Jersey Turkeys Go Postal On A Postal Worker

Cara Giaimo February 17, 2016

A Hadza man gathers up his honey harvest, and burns the surplus.

The Surprisingly Sticky Tale of the Hadza and the Honeyguide Bird

Cara Giaimo February 17, 2016

Boa Vista, Cabo Verde

Curral Velho

Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.

Ecopassage wall

Tallahassee, Florida

Lake Jackson Ecopassage

This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.

Cornell Has a Giant Python Skeleton Hidden in a Backroom

Sarah Laskow February 12, 2016

A sighted bank vole, free from radiation.

Fleeting Wonders: Irradiated Voles In Chernobyl

Cara Giaimo February 11, 2016