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Why helicopters dropped carrots across Australia after the 2019/20 bushfires
At first, it sounds almost impossible: a helicopter crossing a burned Australian landscape while carrots and sweet potatoes scatter into the valleys below. But after the 2019-2020 bushfires, parts of New South Wales had become a food desert for wildlife. More than 5.3 million hectares of land were affected, including more than 2.7 million hectares
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Millionaire trophy hunter killed by elephants during Central Africa safari
A $40,000 hunting trip in Gabon ended in a deadly reversal when Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old California vineyard owner and longtime big-game hunter, was killed by elephants during a safari in the Lopé-Okanda rainforest. Reports say Dosio and a professional guide were pursuing yellow-backed duiker, a small forest antelope, when they came upon five female
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Legendary Spanish matador unable to eat or sleep after severe rectal goring injury
In the bullring, danger is part of the ritual. It sits beneath the music, the costumes, the applause, and the carefully measured steps between man and animal. For Morante de la Puebla, one of Spain’s best-known matadors, that danger became immediate during a bullfight at Seville’s Maestranza arena. Reports say the 46-year-old was gored during
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Japan went on alert after a powerful offshore earthquake sent tsunami waves toward its northeast coast
For a few tense hours on Monday, the danger in northern Japan wasn’t only under the ground. It was moving toward shore. A powerful earthquake struck off the country’s northeastern coast late in the afternoon, triggering tsunami warnings, evacuation advisories, and a familiar kind of unease in communities that know how quickly a seismic event
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The wild he trusted most was the thing that killed him
Gary Freeman spent decades guiding people through one of South Africa’s most unforgiving landscapes. He understood the bush as both livelihood and living force, something to respect but never fully control. That’s what gives his death its force. A man who had built his life around close contact with wildlife was killed not by unfamiliarity
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Disney’s robot dolphin hints at a future without live-animal marine shows
A dolphin-shaped machine breaking through the water looks like the kind of thing social media was built for. It’s strange, sleek, and just believable enough to make people assume a whole new era has already arrived. But the real story is less inflated, and more revealing. What Disney actually showed in late 2025 was an
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Big Bear’s bald eagle chicks need names, and fans are being invited to help
The two bald eagle chicks that hatched in Jackie and Shadow’s Big Bear nest earlier this month are now entering a new phase of internet fame. They need names. Friends of Big Bear Valley, the nonprofit behind the widely followed nest cam, has opened its 2026 naming contest for the pair, inviting fans to submit
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Snow raised the stakes for Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets in Big Bear
The snow changed the story. In Big Bear, Jackie’s eaglets had already entered the most fragile stretch of their lives, the brief window when warmth and food aren’t separate needs, but part of the same survival equation. Then the weather turned. By late afternoon, the nest was buried under fresh snow, and every minute of
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Ancient monastery in Egypt reveals how early Christian monks lived
In Egypt’s western desert, archaeologists have uncovered a monastery that appears to date to Christianity’s earliest centuries. The site sits in Wadi El-Natrun, a landscape closely tied to the rise of monastic life. What emerged from the sand was more than a ruined structure. It was a carefully ordered community that offers a rare look