This is a story that may make you cry but it will also make you marvel.  It is the story of a whale, an enormous whale and yes we know all whales are big, but this one is really really big.  It is also the loneliest whale in the... Read more

Toads are not exactly our favorite animal.  They’re pretty slimy, have bulbous eyes, they can be poisonous as anything and they’re really creepy looking. They’re amazing too, especially if you look at a Poison Dart Frog with their incredibly brightly colored skin.  Still, toads are not our favorite amphibian!... Read more

There was a kind of monster that lived in the coastal estuaries of north eastern Illinois and it may well give you some pretty hairy goosebumps.Well this was not exactly a “monster”, it is an extinct genus of soft-bodied bilateran that lived roughly 275 million years ago. Any monster... Read more

Some of you might be familiar with Paul, the famous octopus who predicted the results of the 2010 World Cup football matches with such accuracy that it made him popular as something of an “animal oracle”. While it is all in good fun and we are sure not many... Read more