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Manta rays and their lesser-known cousins, mobula rays, were once fished only by subsistence fishermen because the meat is cheap and they tend to damage fishing nets. All that has changed since the market for their gill plates has skyrocketed as Chinese medicine has touted them as a method for removing toxins from human blood.

Garden gnomes, flamingos (both plastic and real) and wind chimes are all normal lawn décor in Florida, so the nine-foot American crocodile nesting on a Monroe Country resident’s front yard stood out like a scaly sore thumb.

“There goes the toughest, most independent cat in the neighborhood,” observed one dog-walking neighbor as he watched Pikachu regally stalk across his front yard. He was absolutely right – though technically a pet, the small white cat with a short dark “haircut” was the unchallenged Top Cat in the 'hood.

Cats for rent -- is this a new idea whose time has come or some crazy notion by crazy people? Well, it's neither. What it IS is a movie that was released in Japan last year. The same country that brought the world the iconic Godzilla and large number of other movie monsters has gone the funny, charming, and heart-warming route with "Rent-a-Cat."

Wouldn't it be kind'a cool to blend in with your surroundings?  This list of 25 animals that have incredible camouflage capabilities is quite neato.

A group of golden retrievers from the Lutheran Church's K9 Comfort Dog program recently traveled to Boston to help those suffering in the wake of the marathon attack. Their April 15th arrival in the city was arranged by Reverend Ingo Dutmann, pastor of Boston's First Lutheran Church, located just blocks away from the marathon finish line. Their job was to provide a comforting and healing presence to those in need of anxiety reduction.

A therapy dog is a canine specifically trained to provide affection and comfort to people in hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes, hospices, as well as people with learning difficulties, and those in stressful situations, such as disaster areas. But what about the traditional stress that plagues college students every year, the world over, particularly when exam time rolls around?

April hasn’t been too kind to a pair of Indian zoos, as a pair of dangerous endangered animals made a break for it over the past month.

You've heard of dizzy dog people and crazy cat ladies, but have you heard of the nutty squirrel mom? Kelly Foxton, a former country singer and recording artist, has dedicated her life to the pet Eastern Gray Squirrel she rescued as a baby when its home tree was being cut down. Foxton has photographed Sugar Bush in over 3,000 different costumes and settings at an estimated cost upwards of $500,000.

This is one smart dolphin.  He seeks out help to remove a hook from his pectoral fin.  This is an amazing video, and while a little long it is worth it.

For high quality dog and cat treats made with low allergen ingredients, baked here in the United States, look no further than Cloud Star! Since 1999, the Cloud Star crew has been hard at work to produce wave after wave of pure and delicious treats that all dogs and cats can enjoy.

I would like to say that this video is educational... but I can't.  Instead it is drop-dead funny...  I'm a big fan of the Rhinoceros eating habits.

I'm not sure how I'd do with a pet monkey.  I have a difficult enough time mentoring kids, and this video shows me that it would be about 100 times more difficult to control this little guy...

Well, stealing animal horns for the black market isn’t unprecedented, but how do you hide four huge rhinoceros taxidermy heads?!

Apparently cobras are a hot commodity in Vietnam, as local police pulled over a driver with 53 of the huge venomous reptiles from his car…

Dissimilar to their human masters, dogs don't enlist in the U.S. Military -- they're drafted. And while they have no say in the matter, all of these four-legged recruits take their responsibilities very seriously. Military Working Dogs (MWDs) are however still formally considered 'military equipment' versus the co-species in arms that they really are. But all that might change with the new bipartisan Canine Members of the Armed Forces Act if Congress would only act.

Dogs are smarter than a lot of people give them credit for and their observations of the humans around them can help them survive when humanity seems to have given up on them. In Moscow stray dogs have begun living in the "suburbs" and hopping the subway each morning to commute to the city to go to work.

I have a huge fondness for Space: 1999.  Was it cheesy?  Oh, most certainly.  But it had some great sets, great effects (for the time--and they still hold up), and the occasional great monster.  The images of this critter have stayed in my noggin for 30+ years.  And as silly as it is... it rocks...

A devastating earthquake in China's mountainous Sichuan province not only shattered human lives, homes and area infrastructure, it left dozens of endangered Giant Pandas at the region's panda centers shaken in more ways than one.

Let’s say you’re jogging in a marathon and you see a 1,500lb bison in the path. Do you go well around the behemoth? Or do you try to annoy the beast so that it will wander off into the wilderness? If you choose the latter, you’re going to have a bad time…