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Meet Noelle, a rescue kitten who has an elderly male cat named Harrow to serve as her acting mother (at least in giving her warmth and nurturing cuddles) while the humans feed her. Video, 4 minutes & 51 seconds

Dolphins who frequent Australia’s Tin Can Bay, a popular tourist spot, have taken to bringing “gifts” ashore, apparently missing the visitors who would normally be lined up to feed them before the coronavirus pandemic. The pod of humpback dolphins has brought sponges, barnacle-covered bottles and fragments of coral to Queensland’s Barnacles Cafe & Dolphin Feeding in recent weeks, a volunteer told Australia’s 7News. “Nothing surprises me with dolphins and their behavior anymore,” Barry McGovern, a dolphin expert and PhD student at University of Queensland, told the outlet. “They do everything - they use tools, they have culture, they have something...

Here's another video with Smokey and Sunshine, two rescue kittens in Vietnam. Video, 16 minutes & 49 seconds

Paleontologists have uncovered the remains of megaraptor that lived 70 million years ago, making it one of the last carnivorous dinosaur to roam the Earth. Discovered in Argentina, the team found vertebrae, ribs and part of what would have been the dinosaur's chest and shoulder girdle. After a further analysis, they determined the creature was approximately 33 feet in length -the largest megaraptor found to date. Unlike the Tyrannosaurus rex, this lethal dinosaur had extremely long, muscular arms with massive claws at the end that were used to attack prey.

Sure, soccer is back in the Bundesliga and Belarus right now, but sans crowds and with players clearly going at about 85% effort to finish out the season, it’s not a perfect product. What is a perfect soccer product is Goalie Cat, AKA Meownuel Neuer, AKA Tony Meowla, AKA Tim Meoward. This cat is the breakout star of the quarantine soccer. The reflexes are simply staggering. The aerial leaping ability sublime. The distribution, well, it’s terrible, but honestly with shot-stopping ability like that you have to take the bad with the good.

Meet Smokey and Sunshine, two rescue kittens in Vietnam. Video, 12 minutes & 34 seconds

The old grouch opened up a can of worms for herself and crawled in for a family reunion. Have at her.

The Butlers buy their Scottish Fold cat family a live catnip plant and watch their reactions. Video, 10 minutes & 15 seconds

Mark Levin lost his veloved little dog , Barney , today . He is broken hearted. Pray for them .

Cynthia Covert was waist deep in a pond behind her friend’s home on Kiawah Island clutching a rope as her friends tried to get her away from the alligator that dragged her into the water. As her friends pulled, she calmly said, “I guess I won’t do this again,” according to a supplemental report released Tuesday by the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office. Moments later, the alligator rolled. Covert, 58, went under. The supplemental report provides further details on South Carolina’s third deadly alligator attack in four years. Covert, a Johns Island resident, was on Kiawah doing her friend’s nails, the...

If you've been thinking about adopting a pet, you've probably asked yourself: Would I like having a dog around the house, or would I rather have a grizzly bear? Here's a handy chart to help you decide.

British Shorthair kittens having fun. Video, 4 minutes & 24 seconds

This is the terrifying moment three killer whales circled a pair of Russian kayakers who had paddled half a mile out to sea. Two kayakers immediately stop paddling in the calm waters as they spot the huge orcas swimming towards them. The nail-biting 40-second saga took place off Cape Mramorniy, on Sakhalin, an island that is almost as big as Scotland.

Thanks to a viral tweet from her 28-year-old son, a woman who's been out of work is now selling tiny picnic tables for squirrels full-time. Maria Trezza, 56, is a lunchroom and playground aid at a school in Bolingbrook, Illinois, but hasn't been working since schools closed due to the coronavirus. In less than a week, she has sold 130 squirrel tables just to people in her local area. She's even created a little storefront at her house. Her son, Dominick Trezza, told BuzzFeed News he's received about 350 direct messages from people around the world wanting to buy one....

As Assam prepares for mass culling to check the spread of African swine fever (ASF) that has killed almost 15,000 domesticated pigs, adjoining Arunachal Pradesh fears that the “foreign” disease may have “gone wild”. This is the first time that ASF has been reported in India. Assam claims the disease came from China, where almost 60% of pigs have died since 2018. Officials in Arunachal Pradesh’s East Siang district said six carcases of wild boars, including three piglets, were found in a community forest at Lidor Soyit upstream of Sille River. The spot is about 25 km from district headquarters...

While coronavirus closures are coaxing wildlife into the abandoned streets of many a metropolis, in one Israeli city the four-legged interlopers are assertive and, well, quite boorish. Wild boars, some as bulky as Rottweilers and traveling in family packs, have been trotting through Haifa in increasing numbers. Their once-nocturnal visitations now take place throughout the day, as they root through refuse, spook domestic pets and even block roads. The visitation, since nationwide lockdowns came into effect this month, has revived debate among residents of the hilly port city as to policy regarding the pests.

A crew of firefighters and one determined mama bear helped rescue a cub who was trapped on a dock railing in South Lake Tahoe. A crew of firefighters and one determined mama bear helped rescue a cub who was trapped on a dock railing in South Lake Tahoe. Officials say the mom is known in the area as Black Betty and took her cubs out for a swim when one of them was unable to make it into the water. Video from earlier this month shows the cub clinging to the rail as its mom looks on from below. Fire...

Insect researchers are buzzing in Florida this week over the rediscovery of the blue bee, a rare little creature thought to have gone extinct shortly after it was discovered. Researchers in Florida say the blue calamintha bee (Osmia calaminthae) has been spotted for the first time since 2016, stoking hopes that it might be possible to save the insect from extinction. Blue calamintha bees nest alone and feed on Ashe’s Calamint, a threatened plant found only in Florida. The bees were first recorded in 2011 and dropped out of sight a few years later, despite calls to protect their threatened...

Soul, the Scottish Fold, turns into a lovebug when his human butler makes a trip to the bathroom. Video, 6 minutes & 54 seconds

Four local fishermen at the Sungai Lundu estuary in Sarawak netted a rare specimen on Thursday evening when an enormous freshwater stingray was raised in one of the nets they laid in the river earlier in the morning. The stingray measured 4 metres in width and weighed a hefty 280 kilograms — equivalent to the weight of five adults. Fisherman Azeri Hipni, 42, from Kampung Stunggang Lundu, told Astro Awani that they were used to hauling big stingrays from the river but it was the first time they caught one this huge. "It took us an hour-and-a-half to wrangle with...