Author: Hei

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On October 19, 102 cats and 36 dogs will leave an overcrowded shelter in Louisiana and fly on a Flight To Freedom to Washington where shelters are waiting to take them in and find them loving homes. One of the lucky dogs is named Valda who was rescued from a horrible situation. The Iberville Parish…

This toxin could be causing deadly brain damage in sea lions — and we might be to blame

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Sea lions are in big trouble. The past few years have seen a record number of stranded creatures on the west coast, showing up underfed and confused in increasingly strange places. Through May of 2015, strandings for the year were more than 10 times the average over the preceding decade. Scientists have largely blamed the…

Bloodied bison escapes a fight with a grizzly bear in an incredible chase scene caught on film

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These remarkable pictures show the moment a motorist found himself in the middle of a race for life between a bison and a grizzly bear. Unsuspecting Alex Wypyszinski stepped out of his car to take some scenic photographs in Yellowstone National Park, USA, when he suddenly found himself at the centre of the high speed…

Alabama Black Belt among world’s top sites to find ancient sea monsters

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This story is part 10 of the AL.com series “Ancient Alabama,” examining the natural forces that made Alabama what it is over the past 500 million years, and how those forces still shape the state today. It’s ironic that to find the fossils of some of the largest sea creatures ever to roam ancient Alabama,…

Dog escapes train and walks 200km ‘with tears in her eyes’ to get back to family who didn’t want her

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Maru was sent back to the kennels where she was born on Trans-Siberian railway by ‘allergic’ owner, but escaped the train. This is an extraordinary story of the dog’s devotion to an owner who could no longer care for her, and of the animal’s wondrous sense of direction. Kennel owner Alla Morozova in Novosibirsk sold…

Dog waits 4 years in the same spot near the road, finally gets reunited with his family

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A loyal dog in Thailand waited at the same spot, for four years, for his owners after jumping out of their car at a nearby petrol station and getting lost. In a touching story that demonstrates the power of social media, the dog, originally named BonBon, was recently reunited with his grateful owners. However, in…

Meet Narwhal, a rescue puppy born with an extra tail on his face

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The Missouri rescue organization Mac’s Mission has rescued plenty of puppies and older dogs in its time, but none has captured the internet’s attention quite like a 10-week-old puppy called “Narwhal the Little Magical Furry Unicorn.” Why the unicorn moniker? Because of his magical horn, of course. The puppy has what appears to be an…

Extremely Rare Footage Of Common Snapping Turtle Brutally Take Down a 4-Foot Water Snake

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For anybody that grew up near a creek and used to play in it with your buddies in the neighborhood, you were more than likely warned at least once to “watch out for the snapping turtles.” Fortunately for me, I never had a run in with one of these creatures, and thank God, because these…

Heartbreaking moment fisherman finds a plastic filled turtle unable to dive beneath the surface

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Heartbreaking moment a fisherman finds turtle unable to dive beneath the ocean as it’s revealed how his life-threatening injuries were caused The heart-breaking moment a floundering turtle covered in rubbish struggles to dive beneath the surface has been caught on camera. Trapman Bermagui, a professional fisherman based on the South Coast of New South Wales,…

Farmer to become millionaire after 2 DINOSAUR skeletons discovered on his land

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