Even rangers at national parks must tire of providing the same advice and answering the same questions over and over again. A handful of rangers at Zion National Park thought it’d be more efficient to just make some signs. They’re good. Some of the signs state obvious facts that too Read more…
Rain started rolling in while a group of 50 kids was hiking in Sevier County, Utah, and the worst happened. Water pooled on the trail from the rain, and lightning struck the ground near where the youth group was walking. The lightning strike sent an electric shock through the whole Read more…
It may look like Gollum escaped from J.R.R. Tolkien’s universe through space and time, but this isn’t fiction. A kinkajou was climbing on a wooden sign post at a Washington State rest stop, and that is not where this animal is supposed to be. Maybe that’s why it looked so Read more…
The Amur tiger (or Siberian tiger) is the largest subspecies of tiger on Planet Earth. Sadly, Amur tigers are also endangered, with fewer than 500 of these animals left in the wild. Two Amur tiger cubs born at the Minnesota Zoo is good news for a species that is dwindling. Read more…
A young teenage girl is lucky after very narrowly avoiding a lightning strike (or five lightning strikes?)—it was too many, and too close. 15-year-old Saniya Kumari was filming a video for social media on a terrace in India when lightning struck a metal roof right next to her, multiple times. Read more…
There’s about a month left to enter the 2024 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, but the organization behind the annual award is giving a sneak peek at 10 front runners for this year’s competition. Promising entries so far include funny pics of a sloth, penguins, a turtle, grizzly bears, and polar Read more…
For the first time since 1972, the powers that be are shutting down the annual Rainbow Family gathering. The Rainbow Family of Living Light is a leaderless group of people who gather each July for communal primitive camping. (Additional gatherings occur throughout the year in other countries.) These modern-day hippies Read more…
When it comes to places you can go for some serious outdoor adventure, the Amazon has got to be up there on the list. I just got back from a real-life jungle cruise in the Brazilian Amazon (I even brought my kids!), and it was an incredible experience. However, it Read more…
A family of eight camping at Bass Lake got a shock when they noticed a silhouette of something inside their car. Turns out, it was a hungry bear. The bear had opened the car door, went to town on a bottle of syrup, and somehow managed to lock itself inside Read more…
It’s hard to even keep straight the number of people who have drowned off Florida’s Gulf Coast in the past week. Reports suggest five people have died at Panama City Beach in the past several days (some even claim six). And the Weather Channel is tallying eight total deaths in Read more…
