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When most people think about owls they think of massive winged wise creatures. But that’s not the case when you come across an Elf Owl. The Elf Owl looks like an elf, but it’s no bigger than a sparrow. The Elf Owl is the world’s smallest raptor. It lives in dry thorn forests, deserts, pine-oak forests, and riparian woodlands at the southern border of the U.S. and Mexico. A

The year was 1832 — and Jonathan the tortoise was just a tiny hatchling. The world was a very different place back then; the lightbulb had yet to be invented, and cars were still half a century away. But Jonathan, who is a Seychelles giant tortoise, lived to see it all. This weekend, he celebrated turning 190 with a "cake" made of fresh vegetables, and the title of oldest-known animal in the

This image of GPS tracking of multiple wolves in six different packs is an excellent illustration of how much wolf packs in general avoid each other’s range. Image credit: Thomas Gable The pictures, created in the framework of Voyageurs Wolf Project conducted in Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota, USA, show typical adjacent wolf pack territories that are somewhere around 50-7

Dolphins are known as one of the smartest ocean creatures. They’re known to be able to build complex relationships, invent novel behaviors, and use both verbal and gestural signs to communicate with each other. But the humpback dolphin named Mystique is taking the intelligence of this aquatic mammal to a whole new level. Look, nobody is immune to a nice gift. Mystique knows that very well. In

Humans are all about trying to find ways to make things more convenient, and recently, a very hungry sea lion decided he wanted to get in on that action too. When a South American sea lion noticed a fish market onshore, he decided to waddle in and check it out — and was immediately super excited when he realized just how many fish had been gathered up there. Definitely a sea lion’s dr

One day, two police deputies from Boulder, Colorado were driving along a dirt road when they saw a tiny animal in the middle of the road As they got closer, they saw that it was an adorable baby Northern Saw-Wher owl. Clearly, the owl was lost, and in danger standing in the middle of the road, so the deputies got out and tried to help. As one of the deputies approached the owl, she said,

A bizarre, rather disturbing video has surfaced on Chinese state-run media platform People’s Daily, which shows hundreds of sheep walking around in circles without stopping. https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1592891305721372673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1592891305721372673%7Ctwgr%5Efa1e75be3c021aa4917f38f6a0db18444fa305ff%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fearthly

It’s hard to imagine anything still alive that was born in 1505. That was the year that Martin Luther became a monk and King Henry VIII called off his engagement with Catherine of Aragon… in short, a bloody long time ago. But that’s exactly what scientists believe they have found in the form of one massive Greenland shark swimming in the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean. The shark is