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After the accident, the driver dragged them to the side of the road and left the puppy and his mother on the side of the road and left. He ignored the unconscious dog and the wounded pup. When rescuers arrived the puppy Ramses was trying to protect his mother, it was the bravest puppy we…

What. A. Beast. These creatures seem like they are from a different time period or out of a fairytale. Just miniature dragons running around eating things whole. AD Komodo dragons are the largest living lizards on Earth, growing up to an average length of 7 to 10 feet and weighing between 150 to 200 pounds,…

A tailless whale that is thought to have had its rear-fins sliced off by a propeller has been spotted swimming up and down the coast of Italy, as fears mount over its chances of survival. The 65-foot fin whale is emaciated with a flopped over dorsal fin, according to researchers in Genoa, suggesting the stricken…

It’s nice to read of animals that have been rescued from difficult situations and given a new home, but there are certain animals who cannot be rescued. For example, those dogs who have reached an age when change is too hard and hence remain in their difficult situations while waiting for things to return to…

As you may know from a previous article discussing the scientific nomenclature of dinosaurs, many dinosaur genus names are a combination of a word with “-saurus,” which means lizard in ancient Greek. However, there is a rarer form, known as “-saura,” which is a feminine variant of “saurus.” Not many dinosaur genera have the element…

Isumu was a dog that had never experienced love. He had been abandoned near a shelter, left to fend for himself on the side of the road. He had a broad stripe and blood around his neck from the shackles that had formerly held him, and his long nails caused him anguish with every step…

Running away from the hunters who were shooting at him he went down the hill and collapsed near the river! And so he lay there in fear and pain for days. For days, hungry, thirsty even though the river was right next to him, he couldn’t move and sip water! I’m sure he couldn’t even…

There are times in life when it really pays to be cute!A shelter dog named Damon tested that theory recently when he was left alone for just 45 minutes in an office at the Cincinnati Animal CARE in Ohio. The shelter is so crowded that they routinely put dogs in people’s offices, but staff members…

Look what the cat dragged in … Image © Dietmar Willuhn Photographer Dietmar Willuhn captured these striking (and slightly unsettling) images of a leopard with an unusual catch in Botswana’s Selinda Game Reserve back in November 2012. The unfortunate victim here is a caracal (Caracal caracal), a small, notoriously elusive cat that’s found throughout Africa,…

“They seem to have tumbled into the water and would not, or could not, let go of their grip on one another.” When it comes to arguments, sometimes it’s best to just call a truce and move on. That’s one piece of advice a pair of fighting eagles could have put to good use last…