A new Grand Canyon didn’t open up in the middle of the country, but the U.S. officially has a new national park unit. Today, the National Park Service (NPS) announced the formal establishment of the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas as a National Historic Site and therefore the U.S.’s latest Leer más
Scientists across the globe have only ever collected six spade-toothed whales, and no one has ever recorded seeing one alive. So when one of these extremely rare whales washed ashore in New Zealand, the scientific community became very excited. On July 4, New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) says a Leer más
Isaac Spotts caught an amazing interaction on film as he was photographing two brown bear cubs in Alaska. In the video, which already has over 35,000 likes, the young grizzlies play with each other—at times gently, almost sweetly, and at times aggressively. The grizzly cubs are practicing for life as Leer más
“Out of all the nopes in Nopeland, this might be the nopiest nope of them all.” This fine quote comes from a person on Instagram who watched mountain biker Marco Bassot’s recent video of him riding a barely there ridge in the Italian Dolomites. She says what we’re all thinking: Leer más
We’ve all had those moments when a hike just doesn’t go as planned. A pair of Irish hikers reached a supposedly scenic viewpoint after hiking for hours, and they were a bit underwhelmed. But they didn’t let the disappointing view spoil their fun. In fact, the two made a TikTok Leer más
Some animals get aggressive when they wind up in a place they’re not supposed to be. Not this one. A black bear in Colorado found its way to a renaissance fair and set up camp beneath a honeycomb shop—probably for the free smells. Officials say it appeared to have no Leer más
On Thursday morning, an SUV with five people inside careened off the road in Yellowstone National Park and crashed into a hot, acidic geyser. Everyone survived with non-life-threatening injuries. The vehicle sank under nine feet of hot water before crews pulled it out. In a press release from Yellowstone, park Leer más