With its enormous ears and stilt-like legs, the maned wolf is a one-of-a-kind animal that roams the plains of Brazil and Argentina.At first glance, the maned wolf looks like a cross between a fox and a dog. Though its name suggests it belongs to the canine family, it is, in fact, neither a deer nor a fox — and it’s actually not even a wolf, either. Instead, its scientific name — Chrysocyon brachyurus — suggests that it’s an animal in a class literally all its own. Read More...
In 1929, a mass poisoning plot was uncovered in a rural Hungarian town that saw 40 people murdered — and 34 women implicated as the so-called Angel Makers of Nagyrév.Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesThe Angel Makers of Nagyrév poisoned their husbands, children, or brothers en masse in a small Hungarian village in 1929.
Between 1914 and 1929, a band of women now known as the Angel Makers of Nagyrév, Hungary, poisoned an estimated 40 men and children in their small village — though some estimate they killed closer to 300. Read More...
The lioness nursed the baby leopard and fed it meat from her hunt, while also shielding it from other lions in the area.Dheeraj MittalResearchers documented the first case of interspecies adoption in the wild between lions and leopards.
Stotra Chakrabarti has been closely studying lions at India’s Gir National Park for seven years. But about a year ago, the animal behaviorist noticed something extremely unusual: One of the park’s lionesses had adopted an orphaned baby leopard as her own. Read More...
