November 21, 2015 Washington diver's giant octopus hunt ignites wrath of Puget Sound advocates A teen diver has incurred the wrath of a Washington state community by breaking an unwritten code when he dragged a live giant Pacific octopus from the water.
November 21, 2015 Minnesota teen suffers head wounds in fight with attacking wolf The Department of Natural Resources think it's the first documented serious wolf attack on a human in Minnesota.
November 20, 2015 Attacks soar at US wild cat sanctuaries Over the past few decades, as an exotic pet trade boomed and Americans bought cute tiger cubs and baby monkeys, sanctuaries sprang up across the nation to take care of the animals that were abandoned when they reached adult-size or were no longer wanted.
November 20, 2015 People need to stop scaring cats with cucumbers, say animal behaviorists The new viral craze is apparently scaring cats with cucumbers, because the Internet is a weird place and humans enjoy low-grade animal cruelty as long as it's adorable.
November 20, 2015 These birds have a mating dance that would put Gene Kelly to shame On first glance, the courtship of the blue-capped cordon-bleu songbirds looks rather uneventful. The birds, perched next to each other, begin singing and appear to nervously hop. But on closer inspection, they appear to be doing the avian version of a tap dance. Researchers, armed with high-speed cameras, were able to slow things down and catch this behavior that until now had largely gone undetected.
November 19, 2015 GMO salmon could be headed to supermarket near you The Food and Drug Administration has ruled that genetically engineered salmon are safe to eat, paving the way for the first altered animals to one day reach supermarket shelves.
November 19, 2015 New scary spider found in Brazil named after 'Lord of the Rings' character Writing in the journal ZooKeys, researchers said the new species of troglobitic harvestman spider, landumoema smeagol, is believed to be found only in a network of caves in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state.
November 12, 2015 Watch cute panda cub Bei Bei take his first steps Smithsonian’s National Zoo has released adorable footage of panda cub Bei Bei taking his first steps.
