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Mammals probably appeared on Earth some 200 million years ago.

  What an interesting world we live in… GlobalPost I followed the instructions of the watchful cashier and took off my shoes, sanitized my hands, placed my bag in a locker and dangled an ID card (“customer #18”) from a lanyard around my neck. The cashier then gave me a once over and a shallow [...]

Personally, I’d be scared to look at him, but that’s just me… CBS His chest sports some gnarly locks, but the rest of his skin is bald and rubbery — with a rat-like tail and a wrinkly face. So no one should be surprised that the dominant query from visitors to the Exeter Animal Hospital [...]

Definitely one of the most striking pictures I’ve ever seen… DailyMail UK This is how you see off a love rival, gorilla-style. With teeth bared and enormous arms swinging, the two huge apes hurl themselves towards each other. This moment, just before they clashed in mid-air, was captured by a visitor to the Kent zoo [...]

Poor pooch. What a sad way to go… Telegraph UK Springer spaniel Max, aged nine, may have caught the disease because of the effect of cocaine and other drugs he was taught to detect. Police Inspector Anne Higgins, the dog’s owner, fears the training may have led to the disease which led to him being [...]

  I really didn’t know Flipper had been gone for close to 40 years. I thought he was alive and well…  Scratch the above, I didn’t realize that flipper was actually played by a group of dolphins… Hmmm… Either way, good luck to Richard O’Barry and his cause…  Bloomberg The moment Flipper died in his arms, [...]

What a world we live in… Fox News   A Providence man who abandoned nearly 300 rats on the side of a road has been ordered to pay $1,000 restitution and perform 50 hours of community service. Toby Duffany pleaded no contest on Wednesday to animal abandonment.       Authorities say the 22-year-old Duffany [...]

Stranger things have definitely been known to happen in nature, but this is something very special…

Yikes! Yes, Ligers do exist in nature… From Geroge over at Flickr…

When Beverly and Ernie Fischer gathered up their cattle this fall in Morton County, they rounded up a little more than they expected. “We were moving some cattle, and we got a moose,” Ernie Fischer said. “He thinks he is a cow,” said his wife. Ernie Fischer said it was difficult to get the young [...]

A friendly young antelope found cavorting with a dog along a walking path was probably picked up illegally in Wyoming and may be too tame to return to the wild, wildlife authorities say. A family believed to have brought the animal to Colorado could face charges that carry fines and jail time, said Larry Rogstad, [...]