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Zebra Have Stripes Because Of Pesky Horseflies

Those silly stripes on Zebra's aren't just for decoration, a new study suggests that they evolved out of the necessity to scare off pesky horseflies. One group of researchers believes that the stripes make it harder for predators ... continue

Animal Shelter Employees Abandon Pets, Leave Them Starving And Dead

When the owners of the Purple Hearted Puppies Animal Rescue Center in Summerdale, Alabama took a long vacation, they hired outside help to care for nearly two hundred animals. Unfortunately, that hired help never arrived, and an outside ... continue

$Pigeons Can Count, Sort Numbers Just Like Monkeys And Humans$

Pigeons Can Count, Sort Numbers Just Like Monkeys And Humans

Pigeons may appear to be doing nothing with their time other than eating and pooping on everything in sight but it turns out they could very well be the math nerds of the avian world. Researchers over a ... continue

26-Toed Cat Helps Save Animal Shelter

The Milwaukee Animal Rescue Center has been close to the brink of shutting down for a while now but the organization may just be saved by an unlikely source, a 26-toed orange-and-white tabby cat named Daniel. After hearing about ... continue

Ringling Brothers Pays $270,000 Fine After Appalling Treatment Of Animals

The Ringling Brothers circus has paid an animal mistreatment fine of $270,00 after many of their shows animals were found to be living and transported in squaller. While the circus did not admit any wrong doing Federal inspectors ... continue

Sweden Considering Ban On Beastiality

In 1944 officials in Sweden decriminalized the act of having sex with animals and now a new animal welfare act aims to once again make the practice illegal. Speaking about their intentions Eva Eriksson, County Governor of Värmland said ... continue

Rare Crocodile Discovered By Florida Woman

While spotting Alligators in Florida is a rather regular occurrence finding the endangered American crocodile in pubic is nearly impossible but that's exactly what a Florida woman did this week. Shondra Farner called in to report the crocodile ... continue

Every Sarah McLachlan ASPCA Ad [Language Warning]

Does anyone else have to avert their eyes and mute these commercials until they go off? Aren't they like 20 minutes long? continue

Two heads might be better than one but they sure aren’t pretty

Before the wonder of the web things like Hairy Woman, Monkey Boy and two headed cows were only found in the circus sideshow but now we can find just about any of those things with their own ... continue

8 Incredible images of nature in your face

By waking up at 5:30 AM in the morning and spending his whole day in sub-zero weather so that the animals would trust him Jonathan Griffiths, Montana USA, was able to put his camera literally in the ... continue

The grave consequences of too much StarCraft II …

So long, Goldie. Wherever your fishy soul is heading, here's hoping it has the fish flakes StealthEngy forgot to feed you because he was too damn busy Zerg rushing. RIP. See also: Dude gets weepy after queuing 24 ... continue

8 Animals the movie Spliced has nothing on

Ah genetic modification, just the thing we all wanted to back when we were kids. It was also the time before Photoshop became the next best thing. So while you're deciding on whether you are going to ... continue

Gay walrus warning

I'm not even sure where to start with this. via phreebase in IRC continue

Buy your Xbox Avatar a pet from tomorrow

Up until now, I have deliberately avoided buying clothes, costumes, or props for my Xbox 360 Avatar. My reasoning for this is simple: spending actual Earth money on not-actual clothing for an on-screen avatar is a money ... continue

Marriage proposal ends with romantic baby sea turtle massacre

A romantic marriage proposal for a careless couple on a Hilton Head Island beach on Tuesday ended in the deaths of 60 endangered sea turtle hatchlings. The man arranged to propose to his now fiancee with 150 luminarias- ... continue

Once more whack job PETA runs disgusting ad

I am all for protecting animals but as far as I am concerned the methods used by PETA are questionable at best and disgusting in general. This ad is a perfect example of disgusting. continue

Bigfoot discovered to have Polish cousin [Pics]

It’s one thing to go on a nice walking holiday through beautiful Poland but it is another thing altogether to have that interrupted by some big hairy beast that no-one seems to be able ... continue

Either the most talented or most stupid goat in the world

Bleeee-ZAP!-eet. Bleeee-ZAP!-eet. Bleeee-ZAP!-eet. Seriously, how in the hell did this even happen? Looks kind fun though, like one of those weird Amish toys. [Source: FailBlog] continue

When Engineers Own A Dog Video

This is the kind of shit that happens when engineers are allowed to own pets. They invent stuff like a machine that allows the dog to throw its own tennis balls. Dog is cute though. continue