The steer who would not be slaughtered, Fungie the Dingle Dolphin, and a town goes dark to save baby robins.
A shortie! What does America's most famous cow have to do with public library systems? .
Bears put breaking and entering skills to good use, action hero scientists save the Lear's Macaw from killer bees, and a walrus wakes up in an unexpected country.
Bears put breaking and entering skills to good use, action hero scientists save the Lear's Macaw from killer bees, and a walrus wakes up in an unexpected country.
A crow tampers with a crime scene - TWICE; Nikola Tesla fell in love with a pigeon, and Reddit asks if you are liable if your murder of crows commits crow murder.
Some slugs self-decapitate and grow new bodies; the heartwarming story of Andre the Seal, and alligators have an interesting strategy to stay alive in frozen water
Naked mole rats need CO2 to prevent seizures, horses hate kings named loius, and a turtle killed the father of Greek tragedy.
The Iditarod started this week, so we revisit the 150 dogs and 20 men who saved the town of Nome, Alaska in 1925.
Today's topics include: Sea Cucumbers magic superpower not MCU approved, a bear who lived his best life is linked to Buddy Holly, and a flock of holy geese saved Rome.
A civil war reenactment roster flew the coop, a dog inherits 5 million dollars, pigs play video games for science
The CIA tried to turn a cat into a spy, cat islands around the world, and some cats are allergic to humans
Explore feminism via Alice Roosevelt and her pet snake, Emily Spinach; pandas love rolling in horse poop; Melbourne's wild taxidermy museum says a final farewell,
Dwarf giraffes, Beave the abandoned baby beaver, honeybees are using both tools and twerking to kill giant murderous hornets
A lizard has the #1 record for largest #2; the skydiving beavers of 1948 teaches kids about white colonization and urban sprawl; the monkey who killed a sitting king.
Sweden nearly goes to war over fish farts, octopus are the coolest creatures on the planet, and why we use a rodent to predict the weather
Meet LiLou, the worlds first airport therapy pig, the raven who creeped out Edgar Allan Poe, and a headless chicken lives for 18 months.
This week, we look at how horseshoe crabs are saving us from COVID19, platypuses glow in the dark, and an armadillo fires back against animal cruelty.
Melissa tells you why you shouldn't lick toads, historic towns with animal ties, and New Zealand calls fowl on voter fraud.
Melissa reviews all the creatures we talked about in a not-so-classic retelling of Clement Clarke Moore's, "''Twas the Night Before Christmas"
Today, Melissa dives in to explore other customs, like the "Boomers" who pull Santa's sled in Australia; how a video game about animals has given a place for practicing Muslims to find community in a pandemic, and what a confused Rooster has to do with Christmas in the Philippines.
Yes, red-nosed reindeer exist in the wild, and all those birds in the 12 Days of Christmas would be very, very, very expensive presents.