Everyone assumed Spooky perished in the fire along with Mike's three cats. But when clean up workers began going through the burned out rubble, Spooky rose from the ashes relatively unscathed.
David Mizejewski | Posted 02.08.2012
The deer shot near West Salem was odd not only because it was a female with antlers, but because the antlers had 30 points. That's a ridiculously high number of points. A healthy male deer in his prime might have ten or twelve points.
David Mizejewski | Posted 12.06.2011
Check out the photo below. Something is not quite right about it.
David Mizejewski | Posted 09.25.2011
Each year, dozens of reports come in from people who believe they have seen large, tawny colored cats in states where no such animals are officially documented. What are the animals that so many people claim to be seeing?
David Mizejewski | Posted 09.13.2011
David Mizejewski | Posted 07.31.2011
In light of the current global mass extinction crisis, should we try to bring back extinct species such as the quagga or the woolly mammoth?
David Mizejewski | Posted 07.26.2011
Anyone who's ever watched crows or jays in their backyard has undoubtedly seen evidence of these birds' intelligence, whether stashing food for a later date or teaming up to mob and drive away hawks.
David Mizejewski | Posted 07.09.2011
This week's Animal Oddity is all about butterflies and drag queens.
David Mizejewski | Posted 06.19.2011
Before you reach for pesticides at the first sight of an insect pest in your garden, you might try breathing on it first and see what happens.
David Mizejewski | Posted 06.02.2011
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.30.2011
We typically think of the technological world as something completely different from the natural world, even diametrically opposed. But sometimes, technology can become better by following nature's lead.
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011
Turns out that rough-skinned newts have toxins in their skin to which the bullfrogs have no natural defense against.
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011
The deer first wandered into Diesel, but apparently it wasn't into urban fashion and decided to smash up a mirror.
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011
This week's Animal Oddity comes from the island nation of Madagascar in Africa. The diminutive chameleons of the genus Brookesia are some of the smallest lizards, and indeed vertebrates, in existence.
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011
As a naturalist with the National Wildlife Federation, here is what I think is the reason for Heidi's fame-inducing crossed eyes.
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011
Today's Animal Oddity is the griffon vulture that was detained by officials in Saudi Arabia as an Israeli spy. I know this sounds like something out of the Onion or SNL, but it seems to be true.
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011
It's been a big year for odd animals. And I've spent a good part of the last twelve months combing the news for odd animals stories, sightings and discoveries. Here are twenty favorites.
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011
This week's Animal Oddities post is all about animal eyes. Recently, Treehugger did a story on the subject and it made me realize how strange-looking...
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011
For Westerners, the idea of being eaten by an animal is considered the stuff of fantasy and horror films. However, for modern humans of the not-so-distant past, the prospect of being killed and eaten by wild predators was reality.
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011
Pink Mama, the lady who channels the spirit of a dead squirrel and offers tips on how to give an opossum a pedicure, is at it again. It's sad new this time.
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011
Wild turkeys sometimes show up in odd places. They show up at backyard bird feeders and in some cases the territorial male turkeys have been known to chase people across their front lawns.
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011
Sometimes animals that wouldn't normally socially interact break the mold and become friends, transcending or ignoring instinct and how science says t...
David Mizejewski | Posted 05.25.2011
You might be surprised to learn that virgin births occur in nature, not just in religious tradition and mythology. Some insects and other invertebra...
David Mizejewski | Posted 03.19.2012