Thursday, February 23, 2012

Festus the Three-Legged Therapy Dog






Dead dog offered credit card

Desperate hunt for 'trapped cat' in 30-storey tower block due to be blown up

Thieves steal dead dog's diamond collar from pet cemetery

Man accused of killing and eating neighborhood pets

DOGTV The First Television Channel for dogs


A man left badly hurt after his car crashed down a hillside was saved when his faithful dog ran half a mile to raise the alarm


Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show: Pet-Friendly Hotels In New York City

Dog From Above Bears Striking Resemblance To Certain Body Part

First Lady And Dog Bo Welcome Surprised School Kids At White House

Mirror, signal, manoeuvre

Vain Cat


Six little pigs find new mum - a bulldog


They Call it Puppy Love and These Pets Have Got it!

Malachy, The Pekingese Who Won Best in Show: Big Pic

The Dog Walkers Of Buenos Aires (PHOTOS)

Festus the Three-Legged Therapy Dog

Animal Misconceptions That May Surprise You

Zimbabwe Tortoises Eaten By Chinese Tourists

Bouba Ndjida National Park Elephants Killed In Poaching Spree, Activists Claim

Entire Village in India Relocates to Make Room For Tigers

Fossil Footprints Reveal Oldest Elephant Herd

Trossachs barn owl numbers boosted by 'vole feast'

Animals Doing People Things

25 Goats Riding on Horses

Dormouse saved after walking into tea shop

Plastic peril duck saved - by a duck

The Hyrax – The Elephant’s Cousin

As Bear Population Grows, More States Look At Hunts

Pictures: New Amphibians Without Arms or Legs Discovered

Why Some Poison Frogs Taste Bittersweet When Licked

Pictures: Miniature Chameleons Discovered—Fit on Match Tip

Goat kids can develop 'accents'

Crime chiefs agree to get tough on illegal tiger trade


Norway driver stopped with five reindeer in car


Goodness Snakes! Sociable Rattlers Cuddle With Their Kin

Image Gallery: The Social Lives of Rattlesnakes

Australia's Struggling Marsupial: Photos of the Tasmanian Devil

Tasmanian Devil Cancer Traced Back to 'Immortal' Devil Girl

Flight Record: Songbirds Trek 9,000 Miles to Africa

The week in wildlife – in pictures

Angry birds? These lost species have every right to be...

Rats! Clever, Caring and Incredibly Cute

The World's Strangest Animals

Husky's Sad Ordeal in Wolf Trap Highlights the Horrors of Predator Control

The Week in Animal News: Inspiring Penguin Love, Rhesus Monkeys Gone Wild and More

Animal Rights In China Get Boost From Celebrity Activists And Shifting Attitudes

Dalmatian Pelicans In Caspian Sea Fed After Water Freezes

Animal Photos Of The Week

Otter Casts Worries To The Heavens, Prays

Ringling Brothers Bullhook Use Will Not Be Blocked In Atlanta Despite Local Ban

This Week's Adorable Adoptable Animals: Bunnies

Maryland's Turtles, Tadpoles, Salamanders Face Deadly Virus

Ambergris, Sperm Whale Poop, Is Almost Literally Worth Its Weight In Gold

Scientists Thrilled With Rare Whale's Remarkable Journey

Nurse shark birth captured on camera in China

'Abyss Box' to keep deep animals

Beluga whale sightings in SNH marine renewables report

Sea lion test to probe declines

Why Are So Many Dolphins Beaching Themselves?


Europe votes to ban seal product trade


Cuttlefish Use Humanlike Vision to Choose Camouflage

Turtles 'face extinction' without marine protection

Sea lions: not big Shakira fans

Threats to Whales You Can Help to Prevent

Coral Reef Cam Shows Where Large Fish Hang Out

Bangladesh Establishes New Sanctuaries to Protect Endangered River Dolphins

Even Sharks Make Friends

KE18 Hawaiian Monk Seal Sent To Waikiki Aquarium To Save Species

Spider Vs Wasp: A Deadly Battle in Pictures

Save our bees: scientists reveal the plants that could halt bee decline

Primitive and Eyeless, World's Deepest Land Animal Discovered Ants remember their enemy's scent

Flies Get Drunk to Kill Off Parasites

Pair of Male Gorillas Escape Zoo Enclosure Looking For Romance

Pittsburgh Zoo's New Baby Gorilla Is First Born There Since 2001

Dancing On Crutches







Wednesday, February 22, 2012

When Charles Dickens fell out with America





A Collection of Incredible Matchstick Art

After the Super Bowl, Everyone’s Curious About Slacklining

Incredible World of Communication Satellites (Infographic)

How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

Little girl’s cyclops cosplay is adorable and/or horrifying

Canadian government is 'muzzling its scientists'

Turn water into 4 different deadly weapons, using just pencils and a battery

98-Year-Old's Birthday Surprise: Eviction Notice From Her Son

When Charles Dickens fell out with America

Leap Year: The Facts, Figures and Far-out Families [INFOGRAPHIC] (via)

Vintage Bodybuilding Ads of Yesteryear

BASE Jumping from the Top of Shanghai's Jin Mao Tower

Dead for 32,000 Years, an Arctic Plant Is Revived

A New Way to Visualize Earth

The science of rubbernecking

Why Are Unidentified People Called John or Jane Doe?

Asus Warranty Doesn’t Cover Damages In Case of Alien Invasion





Keyboard Pants So You Can Dance (And Still Type, Browse, etc.)

Next version of OS X to be more iOS-like than ever with Mountain Lion

Facebook hacker sentenced to 8 months jail time

Feds seize $50 million in Megaupload assets, lodge new charges

Pirate Bay: The RIAA Is Delusional and Must Be Stopped

RIAA: The Pirate Bay is The Worst of The Worst

Tweeting a War: How One Journalist Is Using Twitter in Afghanistan

Attention RIAA - This is why we pirate - The Oatmeal

Sorry, Pinterest Users: Websites Can Now Block Pinning [VIDEO]

The Pirate Bay faces UK ban after High Court ruling

Facebook, the Timeline, and the difference between consuming and creating

Are search engine result figures accurate?

War of the cyber worm: the most destructive attack on the internet

OpenStreetMap: 'It's the Wikipedia of maps'

Wii U: The Launch Potential

Google caught skirting Safari privacy settings

Microsoft Says Google Secretly Planted Cookies in Internet Explorer Too

Good news for Google: Nevada approves self-driving car regulations

A traffic accident, men in masks and a naked woman: The split second moments Google Street View cars never meant to capture

Asus Warranty Doesn’t Cover Damages In Case of Alien Invasion

Gaming's Most Ridiculous Crossovers

Target’s not honoring its “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” for Vita games, but Best Buy is [update]

How Were You Born?






Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Astronaut feels space's toll on his body






Hubble Telescope Spies Milky Way Galaxy's Twin

Mission to land on a comet

"Most Amazing Earth Image" From the Other Side

Signs of Ancient Ocean on Mars Spotted by European Spacecraft

Mars 'Super-Drought' May Make Red Planet Too Dry for Alien Life

Opinion: Is returning to the moon really such a crackpot idea?

"A Cloud of Hundreds of Trillions of Asteroids and Comets Surrounds the Milky Way's Black Hole"

Astronaut feels space's toll on his body

Two Earth-Size Planets Born of Battered "Jupiter"?

50 million years ago, this boulder rolled across the moon’s surface

NASA Eyes Plan for Deep-Space Outpost Near the Moon

Phantom Black Holes of the Milky Way --Could They Pose a Danger to Our Solar System?

NASA: "The Conditions for the Emergence of Life were Present on Mars — Period, End of Story"

Putting the squeeze on planets outside our solar system

Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records

Rare Earth element tellurium detected for the first time in ancient stars

This Is the Center of the Universe: NASA’s Deep-Space Command Central

Suicide Rates from Around the World






Suicide Rates from Around the World [Infographic]

Umpire strikes back to kill spectator

Woman declared dead, 'wakes up' before funeral

Do the dead outnumber the living?

Gamer found dead in internet cafe nine hours later

Terminally ill prof teaches end-of-life lessons

‘Mommy’s in the trunk’: Sons of missing woman gave chilling account of her disappearance before father killed them in gas blast

Body in Sydney tree identified as young US nanny

John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74

Here's Why Drivers Get Away With Murder In NYC

15 people who died doing what they loved most

Burned alive in their cells: Hundreds died because guards couldn't find the keys as bodies fused to ceiling reveal full horror of Honduras jail blaze that killed 350

Man lies dead for three years before discovery

Tragedy of dead body on the bus

Squirrel Mask