The St. Louis Zoo recently announced the birth of four endangered American red wolf pups earlier this year in what is a first for the zoo. The pups were born at the St. Louis Zoo Sears Lehmann Jr. Wildlife Reserve, which is located in Eureka, Missouri – about 20 miles southwest of the zoo’s WildCare...
Inventor Nikola Tesla was born on this day in history, July 10, 1856, in what is now Croatia. Tesla’s father was a priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church, notes Encyclopedia Britannica. His mother, while uneducated, was “highly intelligent.” The younger Tesla took a keen interest in science at a young age. Around the age of...
Rangers have shot dead a 14-foot crocodile in northern Australia after it killed a 12-year-old girl while she was swimming with her family last week, police said Wednesday. The girl’s death was the first fatal crocodile attack in the Northern Territory since 2018 when an Indigenous woman was killed while gathering mussels in a river....
A kangaroo that escaped from its owner on New Year’s Eve has been safely recovered, German media reported on July 9. The marsupial was found on Thursday, July 4, in Lüdersdorf, a municipality that is northwest of the city of Hamburg, according to RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND), a German media outlet. The kangaroo had escaped from...
It’s apparently never too early to start setting records and, for one young fisherman, he is just getting started. Wade Merschat, 12, of Trout Creek, Montana, has just set his first record after reeling in a largescale sucker last month. He landed the fish at his favorite, secret fishing spot in Noxon Rapids Reservoir with...
A Spanish tourist reportedly has been “trampled to death” by elephants in South Africa after he tried to get close to them to take pictures. The fatal incident involving the 43-year-old man happened Sunday at the Pilanesberg National Park outside of Johannesburg, officials told the AFP. “Reports suggest that the man stopped the vehicle… and...
A fishing record can always be broken, but some prove particularly challenging to beat. The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) has been clocking fishing accomplishments since its beginnings. The organization is home to fishing records for both freshwater and saltwater fish in all-tackle, line class, all-tackle length for male, female and junior anglers. If you’re...
Shark sightings on the east and west coasts have been on the rise as Americans flock to beaches in hopes of cooling off. In Hawaii, a tiger shark was recently spotted swimming 30 yards from the island’s break wall along Oahu’s South Shore, prompting warning signs to be posted by officials, Island News reported. The...
The Pennsylvania Senate has passed a bill that would end the state’s “prohibition on Sunday hunting,” according to the PA Senate Republicans’ website. Pennsylvania officials previously restricted hunting on Sundays, only allowing hunting on three Sundays per calendar year. Legislation passed in 2019 determined that the specific Sundays would be decided by the Pennsylvania Game...
Biologists in Florida recently caught a fish with an unusual crooked spine, photos show. In a Facebook post published on Tuesday, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute published a photo of a biologist smiling while holding the unusual fish. Officials say the aquatic creature measured 2.7 feet long and weighed 10.6 pounds. The fish...
