Snakes are a very diverse and fascinating species that have long been the cause of fear and fascination in people all over ...

In this part of Shenzhen, modern life meets calm surroundings. Wide walkways, open spaces, and clean streets give people a ...

A baby swan which got stuck on an icy canal in Lancashire was among the RSPCA's most heroic rescues of 2025. Rescuers from ...

Professional snake removal experts captured a 30-pound, 6½-foot Burmese python from a Miami-Dade residential area, preventing ...

A Bellevue family donated its nearly 40-foot-tall blue spruce to the Green Bay Packers for the annual Festival of Lights. The tree was harvested and transported 10 miles to its place of honor on Bob ...

From neighborhood parks to hungry goats, there are plenty of ways your Christmas tree can help your fellow Philadelphians.

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“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

The RSPCA has revealed the wackiest animal rescues of 2025 - including a fox trapped in a chair, a puffin blown 110 miles inland and Cornwall 's infamous garden racoon. Dramatic pictures show hapless ...

This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

From Estonia to Antarctica, this once-pagan symbol has taken on many strange forms. In December 1848, an illustration showed Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children admiring a Christmas tree ...