Australian Wildfires Incinerate Over 1 Billion Animals
According to the University of Sydney, those Australian wildfires have now claimed the lives of a billion or more native animals.
Read MoreAccording to the University of Sydney, those Australian wildfires have now claimed the lives of a billion or more native animals.
Read MoreIt's a series of events drenched in intrigue and deception, greed and subterfuge. It is the tale of America's most iconic eatery, McDonald's, getting taken for a multi-million dollar ride. And like most stories about families being torn apart, it all starts with Monopoly.
Read MoreAll it takes is one look into a cat's eyes to know that it's a magical creature, though it's hard to say whether those supernatural abilities are being used for good or evil. What about this whole nine lives business, though?
Read MoreAccording to the National Parks Service, the area now known as Yellowstone National Park has been home to humans for more than 11,000 years, with the Shoshone Tukudeka tribe making use of the land long before Europeans. Who was the first outsider to look out upon the majesty of Yellowstone?
Read MoreAs of the Australian continent continue to be decimated by ongoing wildfires, people from across the globe are kicking in to provide displaced wildlife with fashionable knitwear.
Read MoreIf you've ever visited Yellowstone, you'll be aware of its two main features. First: signs warning against dangerous behaviors. Second: next to every one of those signs, there are tourists doing exactly what the signs say not to. Here's the truth about Yellowstone's geyser-related deaths.
Read MoreA woman in Jakarta has opened her home to more than 250 stray cats, which is wonderful news for the cats, but terrible news for her chances of ever smelling like anything other than ammonia again.
Read MoreScientists have just found a mineral in a meteorite never before seen in nature, according to CNN. Here's the story of a little mineral called Edscottite.
Read MoreWho knows why you're hellbent on nabbing the world's biggest flower? Maybe you need to apologize to your significant other for making the world's biggest mistake. But here it is. Meet Rafflesia arnoldii, heavyweight champion of the world of flowers.
Read MoreIn a big win for countless financially-strapped young adults across the nation, the University of Phoenix has agreed to cross out $141 million in student loan debt, reports NBC News.
Read MoreEmotional support animals have become a bit of a sticky subject. Recognizing how sticky things have become, an Arizona man set out to make them even stickier by registering the sweetest of all animals -- bees. The craziest part? It actually worked.
Read MoreIn 2017, "Science Guy" Bill Nye joined the ant-Mickey Mouse Club and jointly filed a $28 million lawsuit against Disney. Per the LA Times, in December 2019, a court allowed the case to proceed. Here's why Nye wants to throw the book at Disney.
Read MoreJohn Davison Rockefeller was basically Daniel Plainview in that he was an oil man who had zero qualms about drinking your milkshake. And crossing him meant there would be blood. The owner of Standard Oil and founder of the University of Chicago became the world's first confirmed billionaire in 1916.
Read MoreThough he's toyed with the idea in the past, it seems that billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a one-time Republican is actually running for president in 2020 as a democratic candidate. How does the richest man in New York and the ninth richest man in America spend his money?
Read MoreIn November of 2019, Bill Gates managed to make the leap from second to first place on the list of the richest people in the world, with wealth valued at $110 billion. But what does he actually spend all those billions money on?
Read MoreIf you own one of those L.A. party scene cats that loves to get wild, you're no doubt aware of the drug menace ensnaring so many of today's most promising cat youth. Catnip: the jazz cigarettes of feline culture. Here's what happens if your cat has too much catnip.
Read MoreWar is hell, but hell hath no fury like the Women's Battalion of Death. This is the untold story of Russia's all-female Battalion of Death
Read MoreFor many cat owners, there are three unavoidable constants in life: Death, taxes, and the fact that their feline friend will try to drink from the sink whenever it gets a chance. Let's find out why cats like to drink from a sink!
Read MoreIf whales didn't exist, Jonah might have had to spend three days in the belly of an obese goldfish, which sounds super cramped. If these gargantuan animals vanished from existence, the world -- and the ocean -- would be in much worse shape.
Read More"Mouth-fighting" sounds like one of the oddly violent sports metaphors people use in reference to French kissing. But here the term describes battles between tiny underwater worms that live off the coast of Japan which produce one of the loudest, least affectionate sounds in the ocean.
Read MoreThe world's biggest ocean jackpot is Spanish galleon San José. Sunk in 1708, the ship may contain the biggest sunken treasure on Earth.
Read MoreIt probably won't come as a surprise that dogs and humans have a lot of genetic overlap. Seattle Pi writes that humans and dogs share about 84 percent of their DNA. Presumably that number is far higher for canines like McGruff the Crime Dog. But that's just the nature of living things.
Read MoreThese days, $1 billion has become chump change to today's richest people. As their wealth continues ballooning, the world may soon see its first trillionaire, horrifyingly enough. Who's it going to be?
Read MoreIt's tough to say how smart raptors were. There's no way to experience their behavior first hand, and intelligence is a spectrum. While velociraptors may not have been great at math, they might have excelled in sculpting or theological studies. But were they smarter than dogs?
Read MoreIn 2013, as Global News tells us, Polish insect researchers discovered a peculiar "lost" ant colony in a nuclear bunker. In 2016, they publicized its story. And in 2019, they verified the secret behind the colony's survival: Cannibalism.
Read MoreWhat if humans were tasked with selecting a monkey king? To determine which ruler measures up, you'd first have to know the largest monkey species.
Read MoreThose with $1 million or more, account for 45 percent of the world's total wealth. Guess how many of them there are... If your answer was 36 million, you're correct, according to Credit Suisse's Global Wealth Report.
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