An orangutan named Zoe in a Virginia zoo named has been taking lessons in mothering from the human zookeepers who care for her. Zoe wasn’t able to nurse her first child, so, when her youngest baby was born recently, staff came up with an idea: Why not have a zookeeper who also happened to be […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a News & Insights report from the RV Industry Association (RVIA). Anna Parker, Patrick Industries’ new vice president of marketing, is launching into the next act of her career. After spending more than 15 years in the marketing and advertising industry working with prominent companies ranging from Coca Cola to […]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. job openings slipped to 9.9 million in February, fewest since May 2021 and a sign that the job market may be starting to cool, which would be welcome news for the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve, according to an Associated Press report. Vacancies fell from 10.6 million in January, the Labor […]
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Ever wanted to own your very own thundering herd of rhinoceroses? If you’ve got $10 million to spare, it could be your lucky day. David Hume, a South African conservationist and entrepreneur, has announced plans to auction off his rhinoceros farm, which he founded 14 years ago to help combat poaching. He started the farm […]
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For the first time in more than half a century, humans are heading back to the moon. NASA has announced the names of the four astronauts who will embark on Artemis II for a fly-by sightseeing tour scheduled for late next year. The crew is made up of three Americans—Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, […]
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Sometimes in big competitions, you have to take risks to win. But in this weekend’s Tour de Flanders, pro cyclist Filip Maciejuk took things a bit too far—and caused a 20-bike pileup right in the middle of the race. The collision, which was captured on video, ended up sidelining three cyclists (including Maciejuk). It may […]
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Earlier this week, photographer Jeff Mauritzen spotted a penguin in Antarctica with a rare genetic mutation that makes it not tuxedo-black, but blonde. While the penguin is cute enough, we have to admit something about it is breaking our brains. Try thinking of James Bond in a white tracksuit, or Charlie Chaplain in a wedding […]
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After years of seeing toothy T. rexes in popular media, a group of American paleontologists has finally stepped forward to set the record straight. In a study recently published in Science, the researchers compared Tyrannosaurus rex fossils with modern lizard anatomy and found they probably had lips. The study involved tons of painstaking measurements. The […]
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Hanging on fence, outside the bald eagle enclosure at Missouri’s World Bird Sanctuary, there’s a sign that’s worth a double-take. It reads: “If you see an eagle lying down in the back left corner under a perch, that’s Murphy! Murphy is not hurt, sick, or otherwise in distress. He has built a nest on the […]
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In a few years time, tourists might be visiting London not to see Big Ben but to see—beavers? Thanks to new rewilding projects intended to bring nature back to the Big Smoke, Greater London could soon be getting an influx of beaver families reacquainting themselves with ancestral grounds they haven’t roamed for 400 years. Last […]
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All around the world, small communities are struggling to stay afloat as their young people grow up and move away for the allure of big cities. The villages in northern India are no different. But now, some of them have come up with a unique solution to harness the power of nature to save their […]
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Yes, carrier pigeons are still a thing. And in one region of India, they remain an important form of backup communication in case of natural disaster. According to reporting from The Guardian, Odisha State is the only place left in the world with a functioning carrier pigeon service. The police there have about 150 pigeons, […]
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Winnebago Displays, Field Tests All-Electric RV Prototype The eRV2 — a fully operational all-electric, zero-emission motorhome prototype — was unveiled at the Florida RV SuperShow in January 2023. Built on…
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In perhaps the most ridiculous (and yet weirdly intriguing?) tourist attraction we’ve seen yet, a porta-potty has been suspended by a crane high over the city of London. Why? As a publicity stunt for a cleaning products company, Domestos, because apparently social media has gone to shit. For one day only, March 30, which wasn’t […]
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In a harrowing video captured in Washington last week, a skier narrowly a snowboarder’s life after the man fell head-first into a tree well. The snowboarder was buried upside-down in deep snow and slowly suffocating when the skier, Francis Zuber, arrived at the scene. At the time, Zuber was cashing in on a recent powder […]
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In January, off-road RV manufacturer EarthCruiser announced it was designing a lightweight slide-in camper specifically made for electric pickups. At the time, the company also hinted that it was exploring other opportunities to enter the e-RV space. Now, it seems those plans are already coming to fruition, thanks to a budding partnership with GMC. In…
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This April, we earthlings will get a rare opportunity to watch meteors streak across the sky during the Lyrid meteor shower, which comes from the debris of Comet Thatcher, officially named C/1861 G1 (Thatcher). While the Lyrid meteor shower can feature bursts of up to 100 meteors per hour, 10 to 15 meteors per hour […]
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Night 9 on Tika gets off to a somber start. Sarah is gone, following Carolyn’s decision to join forces with the tribe’s new member, Josh, at tribal council. Yam Yam is left scrambling—and confused. “I’m happy that I survived the moment, but I’m not happy that I didn’t know how it was going to go,” […]
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In 2020, Zach Cross of Atlanta, Georgia, visited Stone Mountain — and found he could barely hike more than a mile. He was huffing and puffing, and he tripped over rocks and roots. It was one of the hardest things he’d ever done. That first mile took Cross about 80 minutes to complete. At the […]
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After repeated protest from animal rights activists, Miami Seaquarium has agreed to release its captive orca, Lolita, into the wild waters of the Pacific Northwest. Lolita has been a member of Miami Seaquarium for about 50 years. She was captured in the wild when she was four years old. At the time, she was name […]
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