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This unusual tale of animal rescue happened a few years ago when a deer attacked a man who was trying to choke a young woman to death with her own purse straps.

Parrots are smarter and longer-lived than other birds. Scientists recently learned exactly why that is.

Like those fictional TV tales of Lassie getting lost or the movie, "Come Back, Little Sheba,' today's tale is based in reality. It's a cautionary tale -- one of an animal rescuer's worst nightmares.

Aggressive sea lions in Sand Point, Alaska have once again targeted local fisherman by leaping out of the sea to inflict painful bites.

Once upon a time a man named Chuck Jones came up with an idea for a new cartoon. The whole dog chasing cat and cat chasing mouse thing had kind of been done to death even in the 1940s. With some inspiration taken from Mark Twain, he came up with the idea of a perpetually hungry coyote chasing a road runner. This was not just any roadrunner, mind you, but one that could never be caught -- almost.

You probably got a day off from work on January 21, 2019. But were you aware when you honored Martin Luther King's birthday, that day also marked 'National Squirrel Appreciation Day'? 

Blood-sucking bugs avoid biting bodies painted with contrasting 'zebra' stripes, according to a new study published by The Royal Society.

Believe it or not, scientists are using satellite images of penguin poop, or guano, to study changes in penguin populations and climate change. While the images cannot show individual penguins, they can show the large areas of guano left around nesting areas. It is the color of the poop that is of particular importance to scientists because that tells the story of what the penguins have had available to feed on.