The border between Argentina and Brazil had been closed by the coronavirus pandemic for nearly two months when, in early May, an unusual convoy approached the checkpoint in Puerto Iguazú. There were 15 people, all of whom had gone days with little sleep, and six vehicles, including a crane and a large truck. Behind the […]
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Jaw-dropping video shows a college student struggling to capture a 400-pound bull shark off the shores of Long island, New York. It took 21-year-old TJ Minutillo over two hours to reel in the giant beast. “Two hours in, still going!” Minutillo says in the video as he clings onto the fishing pole. Inside Edition caught up […]
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An online map shows the whereabouts of sharks tagged with tracking devices — and some of them are lurking off the most popular beaches in the United States. The devices have batteries that last for five years and show the last location they were pinged. Inside Edition found 16 sharks swimming off Long Island and […]
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A woman from New York City was killed off the coast of Maine by a shark, officials said Julie Dimperio Holowach, 63, was swimming off the shore of Bailey Island Monday when cops say a witness saw her being attacked by a shark, the Maine Department of Marine Resources said. Nearby kayakers brought Dimperio Holowach to […]
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It’s the latest and perhaps unlikeliest COVID-19 trend—raising chickens. Tara Cook-Litman is a mom of three from Connecticut and she bought 13 chickens when the state went into lockdown. “It raised the question for me how I was going to feed my family,” Cook-Litman told Inside Edition. “And I have gardens, but didn’t have a way […]
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It all started when one fourth grade teacher in Texas and her class wanted to help save a litter of puppies, and now 17 years later she is still helping animals with some of those same students. Diane Trull started an animal shelter, Dalhart Animal Wellness Group and Shelter, also know as DAWGS N Texas, in 2003. Now, […]
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In an interesting new study of overweight adults, those who donned a weighted garment for three weeks dropped pounds, without consciously changing their diets, moving more or otherwise altering their lives. The study, which grew out of related research with rodents, suggests that our bodies are capable of judging how much we should weigh and, […]
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A rare sighting has left scientists in India mesmerized as a yellow turtle with an albino mutation has been found in India. Forest officials in Eastern India recently caught the turtle, after some locals spotted its unusual coloration. It’s suspected that the yellow reptile is an albino mutation of a common turtle. “Truly it is […]
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A new study warns that climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, saying the predators could be wiped out by the end of the century, according to a report in Nature Climate Change. Melting ice in the Arctic is making it difficult for the bears to hunt. Scientists in the report in Nature Climate Change […]
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A 10-year-old boy playing with his beloved husky puppy Keanna in Zion National Park was heartbroken after the dog died suddenly after going swimming. Twenty minutes after video was taken of the pair having fun in the pond, she was dead. “She started seizing. Her whole head and body was shaking,” the boy’s mom told Inside Edition. […]
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As a sophomore in college I interned at a lab that studied dolphin behavior. The animals spent most of the year doing back flips and spraying water onto tourists at a theme park, then called Marine World Africa USA, just north of San Francisco. In their off months, they hung out with behavioral scientists who […]
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Cats just want some peace and quiet — but they can’t get it when you’re at home all day long. According to some experts, they’ve had enough, and have been acting out because of it. “Our cat does not like the fact that we’re all home quarantined,” said one cat owner. “She’s like, why are you all in my […]
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Alexander Davis admits that he can be a glutton for punishment. He staked part of his Ph.D. on finding some of the world’s best-camouflaged fishes in the ocean’s deepest depths. These animals are so keen on not being found that they’ve evolved the ability to absorb more than 99.9 percent of the light that hits […]
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Exercise may help change exercisers’ brains in surprising ways, according to a new study of physical activity and brain health. The study, which included both mice and people, found that exercise prompts the liver to pump out a little-known protein, and that chemically upping the levels of that protein in out-of-shape, elderly animals rejuvenates their […]
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TOORBUL, Australia — The first sign is the smell: smoky, like a campfire, with a hint of urine. The second is the koala’s rear end: If it is damp and inflamed, with streaks of brown, you know the animal is in trouble. Jo, lying curled and unconscious on the examination table, had both. Jo is […]
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The cutest birthday gift – a puppy – made an Australian man cry in a TikTok video that has gone viral. In the video, Daniel Totos, 25, thinks he’s about to receive an Apple Watch, but when he opens the box, there’s a dog collar inside instead. After some confusion, Totos realizes something must be […]
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As states locked down to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the nation’s roads became less deadly for wild animals, most likely sparing millions of them from becoming roadkill, according to a new report. The number of wild animals killed per day in Maine during the first four weeks of the state’s shutdown was down […]
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Building a body from scratch is a daunting task, one that requires careful coordination among all those involved. That’s why nature’s starting stuff — cells — have learned to be remarkably chatty to get the job done right. Decades of experiments on embryos from fish, frogs and mice have painted a general picture of the way […]
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