"Love of animals is a universal impulse on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other"
🚨 BREAKING NEWS:
SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED A 392-YEAR-OLD SHARK STILL SWIMMING IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN.
This Greenland shark was born around 1634 the same era as the first European settlers in North America.
It has been gliding through the freezing Arctic depths for nearly four centuries.
Why this matters:
• Greenland sharks are the longest-living vertebrates on Earth
• They grow extremely slowly only about 1 cm per year
• They reach sexual maturity at around 150 years old
• This one was radiocarbon-dated using the proteins in its eye lens (which never degrade)
The deeper implication is staggering:
While humans are racing to understand aging and longevity, this shark has been quietly living through the entire modern era from the invention of the telescope to the first Mars landings without ever surfacing.
It has seen more history than almost any other animal alive today.
What does it feel like to know a creature born in the 1600s is still swimming in our oceans right now?
Follow for more frontier biology and mind-bending discoveries.
A fire captain jumped into rushing floodwaters to save a baby deer being swept downstream in Indiana.
The Madison Township Fire Department was responding to call about a person stuck in a car in a flooded roadway, but when they arrived, the person had been able to get themselves out without help. That's when rescuers heard a baby deer in trouble.
Capt. Joe Sinclair went in the water to save it, with his crew helping to pull him and the deer back to safety. The deer was transported to a local wildlife rescue.
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Rien n'a changé mais tout a changé.
Voici le premier film de chat au monde jamais réalisé.
Il date de 1899. «La petite fille et le chat» par les célèbres frères Lumière français.
Avec colorisation et vitesse ajustée.
Magnifique ! 🤩
"Gloria" is a cover of Umberto Tozzi's 1979 Italian song. Laura Branigan listened to the demo and recorded the English version for her debut album Branigan (1982). The track reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, spent 36 weeks on the chart (record at the time for a female solo artist)
🚨 This is what the universe sounds like when light becomes music 🤯
Using data sonification, scientists transformed the Hubble Space Telescope Ultra Deep Field into audio—where every galaxy becomes a note, every flicker of light a cosmic tone.
What you’re hearing isn’t music… it’s billions of galaxies echoing across space and time 🌌
This woman shares her water with a Coati overwhelmed by the heat. Parents ought to teach children humans should share their sources with other beings. No one gets poorer by sharing their water.
📽️Gaby Mogashike