By: Sylvia Tan/Relay Hero Animal cruelty is sadly especially prominent within modern society – both dog and cat owners alike abuse their own pets, can you imagine? One example is a dog owner in China, who drags his own dog via a long metal chain tied to his truck! Mind you – the truck was DRIVEN by…
America’s Cicadas Are Mysteriously Appearing Four Years Early
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Everybody panic – the cicadas are coming, and they’re four years early! Okay, we’re only joking – there’s no real need to panic here. They’re not particularly threatening to humans, but they can be infuriatingly noisy in large enough numbers. Still, the fact that they have emerged from their underground resting places…
Female Dragonflies Fake Sudden Death To Avoid Male Advances
By: Sandrine Ceurstemont/New Scientist Female dragonflies use an extreme tactic to get rid of unwanted suitors: they drop out the sky and then pretend to be dead. Rassim Khelifa from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, witnessed the behaviour for the first time in the moorland hawker dragonfly (Aeshna juncea). While collecting their larvae in the Swiss…
Local Cops Needed Cheaper K9s, So They Went To The Animal Shelter And Adopted Pit Bulls
By: Johanna Silver/Little Things Though they’ve proven time and time again that they can be just as sweet and loving as any other dog, pit bulls are still largely assumed to be dangerous and mean. People are so afraid of them that they have even tried to ban them from entire cities, like Montreal. But there are…
Pup Thrown Into Raging Fire Pit And Left for Dead. Family Desperate When Burns Overtake Tiny Body
By: Varvara Budetti We’ll never understand how people can be so cruel as to hurt defenseless animals, and puppy Polo will never get it either. Recently, the 8-month-old lab mix was shockingly thrown into a fire pit by, it is believed, several children. He was badly hurt and his paws and belly were burned. His thick fur…
Watch: Sea Lion Drags Girl Into Water In Richmond, BC
By: IFL Science Have you ever seen those large signs in areas populated by local wildlife, telling you very clearly that it is forbidden to feed the animals? Well, maybe this will show you why. When wild animals are fed by humans, they obviously begin to associate humans with food. This can lead to deadly…
Young Woman Out Walking When Two Strange Men Attack. Suddenly, Stray Black Dog Appears From Nowhere
By: Elias Manzella/Liftable When Georgia Bradley took a vacation in Greece, she had no idea her heart would be captured by a complete stranger. While a tourist falling in love with a foreigner may be a common theme in Hollywood movies, this story has a little different tune. It all started when Bradley, a Plymouth University…
12 Eye-Opening Photos That Will Make You Think Twice About Going Swimming In The Ocean
By: Kristi Shinfuku/Shareably Swimming can seem like a fun time, especially if you’re swimming in a natural body of water with beautiful sea life. While water is truly a wonder, some people have encountered some truly horrifying organisms that will seriously make you reconsider swimming again! This photograph captures just how incredibly vast the ocean…
NFL Player Who Loves Animals Helps Save 46 Of Them
By: Kellie Stevens/The Dodo “The more we learned, the more we understood how many dogs need homes.” Last weekend, over a thousand animal lovers packed into a sports arena in Baltimore, Maryland, to see adoptable shelter animals prance down a runway. But an unexpected announcement gave the crowd more than they bargained for. At the end…