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BOTSWANA - 2014/06/12: Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) in river near Chitabe in the Okavango Delta in northern part of Botswana. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) in river near Chitabe

Animals

Here’s To Hippos

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Kelsey McKinney

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Oh No! The Big, Beautiful Owl Got Out!

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Sabrina Imbler

A domestic pigeon that has been dyed pink with hair dye.

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Justice For Flamingo, Who Did Not Consent To Being Dyed Pink

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Dan McQuade

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Canadians Jubilant Despite Unexpected Death Of Weather-Predicting Rodent Fred La Marmotte

An extremely fluffy gray cat called the Pallas Cat snarling at the camera

Agrunia not so happy…

World’s Crankiest Cat Found On World’s Tallest Mountain

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 26: Sophomore Paige James, center, touches a hippo statue for luck as she leads admitted George Washington University students and their parents on a tour of the campus before deciding on whether or not to enroll on April, 26, 2017 in Washington, DC.

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Death To The NCAA

Official George Washington University Statement: Hippos Are Not Free To Be Bold

A Caravaggio-esque photo of a tree frog being stung inside the mouth by the two-pronged genital spines of a wasp. Ouch!

Low-Res_A tree frog (Dryophytes japonica) spitting out a male wasp (Anterhynchium gibbifrons) after being stung (by pseudo-stings) CREDIT Current Biology Sugiura

I Messed Up

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Barry Petchesky

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Free P-22!

Matt Ufford is the head of video and audio at Yahoo Sports.

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Matt Ufford

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A Bird Idiot’s Guide To Winter Birding

A lady lifts a comically small Shetland pony out of a van in Germany.

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Pumuckel The 20-Inch Pony Has Other Mini-Horses Quaking In Their Hooves

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Folks, We’ve Got A New Animal Friendship

Annie Rauwerda is a writer and comedian from Michigan. She loves Wikipedia, digital archives, and her cat.

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Annie Rauwerda

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Life's Rich Pageant

In Search Of A Hot Pink Bitch Named Breakfast

on a high-altitude cliff, a mountain goat intimidates a trio of bighorn sheep

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Mountain Goats Keep Winning

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I’m Sorry About Stuffing The Ballot Box For My Favorite Fat Bear

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We Saw A Bear

A tiny orange frog sitting by a pool of water inside the leaf of a bromeliad plant.

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Nowhere Is Safe From Our Garbage

JAKARTA, INDONESIA: Indonesian boys swim on a river to catch ducks as part of game show in Jakarta, 17 August 2006, to celebrate country's 61st independence day anniversary. Outside a house in central Jakarta on the morning of August 17, 1945, a small group of nationalists gathered for a simple ceremony to declare independence for the remains of the former Dutch East Indies empire and Indonesia was born. After three centuries of Dutch colonial rule and three years of Japanese occupation, the world's largest archipelago had been declared one nation, although it was another four years before the Dutch abandoned their attempts to retake their former possession and recognised Indonesia. AFP PHOTO/Bay ISMOYO (Photo credit should read BAY ISMOYO/AFP via Getty Images)

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The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is A Duck Winning “Find The Duck”

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Freya The Walrus Should Still Be Alive

Two brown-lipped snails, cepea nemoralis, on the concrete.

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I Must Protect The Snails In My Backyard From Myself

A screenshot of a pink spaghetti worm glimpsed on the deep sea by a Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ROV

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Do You Dare Twirl Your Fork In The Spaghetti Worm?

ALLEN PARK, MICHIGAN - JULY 27: Dan Campbell, head coach of the Detroit Lions during the Detroit Lions Training Camp on July 27, 2022 in Allen Park, Michigan. (Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

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What Creature Does Dan Campbell Think Would Be Great At Football?

A straight line of rectangular holes in the seafloor, with the metal parts of a remotely operated vehicle visible at the bottom of the image.

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Let Me Stick My Hand Inside The Mysterious Holes On The Seafloor

A mysterious jellyfish with one long tentacle

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Silence The Terrors Of The Terrestrial World With NOAA’s Deep-Sea Livestream

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Now Is As Good A Time As Any To Start A Spotted Lanternfly Kill Log

The new fossil fish, Qikiqtania wakei, with its famous cousin Tiktaalik below.

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New Fossil Fish Flirted With The Idea Of Legs But Kept On Swimming