Animals

Court Rules Monkeys Can Take Selfies But Only People Can Copyright

6:30am April 24, 2018

A monkey created a series of selfies in 2011 and a photographer used them. PETA sued claiming copyright infringement. An appeals court has ruled against the suit.

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A sample of cannabidiol (CBD) oil is dropped into water. Supplements containing the marijuana extract are popular and widely sold as remedies for a variety of ailments and aches. But scientific evidence that they work hasn't yet caught up for most applica

Anxiety Relief Without The High? New Studies On CBD, A Cannabis Extract

11:20am April 23, 2018

by Allison Aubrey

An FDA advisory committee last week urged approval of a drug containing cannabidiol to treat a form of epilepsy. Other scientists wonder if CBD might ease anxiety or other disorders, too.

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Deep-sea trawling can include bycatch and harm coral, so some activists want it banned.

For 50 Years, Deep-Water Trawls Likely Caught More Fish Than Anyone Thought

8:00am April 23, 2018

by Menaka Wilhelm

Using historical data and estimates from deep-sea trawls that drag nets along the ocean floor, researchers estimate that millions of tons of catch have gone unreported in the last 50 years.

Colorado Man Learns Animal Bites Are Part Of The Job

6:58am April 23, 2018

Dylan McWilliams was surfing in Hawaii recently and was bitten by a shark. Previously he suffered a bear bite and a rattlesnake bite. McWilliams is a survival training instructor.

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Fire Department Rescues Man And Cat Stuck Up A Tree

6:02am April 23, 2018

The man got stuck trying to rescue the cat. The fire department rescued the man and then the cat. A battalion chief in Norfolk, Va., stressed that cat rescues are "not something we normally do."

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Zoologist Lucy Cooke says we infantilize pandas because they look cute. "We don't think of them as bears," she says. "We think of them as helpless evolutionary mishaps." Though captive breeding programs get a lot of press, she wishes that there were more

Who Cares If They're Cute? This Zoologist Accepts Animals On Their Own Terms

7:42am April 22, 2018

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Zoologist Lucy Cooke says humans aren't doing animals any favors when we moralize their behavior. Her book The Truth About Animals is organized around "fact and not sentimentality."

In Maine, It's A Boom Year When It Comes To Fishing For Baby Eels

7:38am April 21, 2018

by Nora Flaherty

Each spring, a few lucky Maine fishermen have the chance to make a lot of money catching baby eels, known as elvers, to sell to eel farms in Asia. This year, the prices are some of the highest ever.

Dog's Cancer Was Teddy Bears

5:11am April 20, 2018

A couple in England feared their dog had cancer. A scan showed a mass on her spleen. The vet went in to do surgery, only to find it was a mass of teddy bears in the dog's stomach, the BBC says.

Bottlenose dolphins typically swim in warmer waters, such as this pair jumping in Honduras.

Science

Bottlenose Dolphins Spotted Off Canada's Pacific Coast For The First Time

8:10pm April 19, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

This was a bizarre sight because this kind of dolphin has never before been spotted in this northern area. They like the warmer waters farther south. About 200 were swimming in the group.

The Last Of The Royal Corgis

10:19am April 19, 2018

Willow, the last of Queen Elizabeth II's pet corgis has died. She was the end of a line of corgis descended from the queen's first, which she got in the 1940s when she was 18 years old.

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