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One day, while strolling the grounds of his property in Costa Rica, Michael Farmer spotted something he couldn’t quite believe. There, on the leaves of a guava tree, was what looked to be a small metal object — glinting in the sun like a piece of polished chrome. But then it began crawling. It was, in fact, a living thing. MICHAEL FARMER Turns out, Farmer had just stumbled upon one

The comings and goings of students and faculty at Trident Technical College in South Carolina were apparently not lost on a little, feathered local living in a tree on campus. That may be why, when trouble befell him one day recently, he seemed to know just where to go for help. TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE Late last month, staff at the school were going about their business when they su

The other day, Miguel Ángel Escobar and his family were traveling by boat off the coast of Honduras when something caught their eyes — and immediately broke their hearts. There, along a remote stretch of coast, they spotted a massive sea turtle entangled in some tree roots near the water’s edge. “I thought she was dead,” Escobar told The Dodo. “We felt such pity for her.” The tur

It’s probably time to leave the water when a huge snake licks the camera lens. Yet not for experienced shark diver and cameraman Bartolomeo Bove. Bove flew halfway across the globe to swim with the green anaconda, the biggest snake still alive. In South America, marshes, swamps, and murky streams are where these enormous carnivores normally reside. However, the Formoso River in Brazil has the

Mother Nature never ceases to amaze us with her amazing creations and this extraordinary fox is definitely one such creation. After interacting for a few months, the wildlife photographer named Sam Gaby managed to earn the trust of a fox living in Newfoundland. This creature stood out from the rest of his kind and Sam was able to share a special connection with the fox. This connection enabled

A permanently injured bald eagle who can't fly is living out the rest of his days at a bird sanctuary in Missouri. Last month, one of his caretakers at World Bird Sanctuary (WBS) noticed something odd. Keeper Kerstin saw Murphy the eagle protecting a large depression in the ground. The spot was sparsely but carefully decorated with leaves and branches, and featured a simple rock right in the

For weeks, Halie Kutscher’s 9-year-old son cradled an orange cat Beanie Baby, praying that his real cat, Oliver, would come back. What the boy didn’t know was that Oliver was on his way — trekking almost 40 miles so they could be reunited. HALIE KUTSCHER The Kutscher family was recently getting ready to move from their home in Bridgeport, West Virginia, to Morgantown when they re

Its resemblance to the main character in a 1941 Disney movie has given this fascinating genus of ocean animals its name. The life of these fascinating creatures, however, is far less enjoyable than that of the fictional character they were named for. Let’s take a closer look at some of the most interesting facts about the Dumbo Octopus, one of the many marine animals that float around i