adorable animals This alligator is an incredibly gentle mom! Jennifer Sandlin

CDC Dr. Deborah Birx: "Our agencies are making the same mistakes they made with COVID" Jennifer Sandlin

weird history Iowa's weirdest uprising: The great Cow War of 1931 Ellsworth Toohey

News See the first armadillo pups born in North America since 2018 Jennifer Sandlin

adorable animals Move over Puppy Bowl, here comes the Stanley Pup Gail Sherman

louisiana Louisiana reintroduces the electric chair, adds nitrogen hypoxia to execution methods Natalie Dressed

3-D scanned images OpenVertebrate is a massive database of 3-D scanned images of 13,000 (and counting!) vertebrate specimens Jennifer Sandlin

Science Scientists discover that "fluorescence is very common in mammals" Jennifer Sandlin

art Meet Trent, a talented artist with autism who takes requests of things to draw Jennifer Sandlin

canada A beaver celebrated Canada Day by stealing a Canadian flag Jennifer Sandlin

law 'Tiger King' star 'Doc' Antle convicted of felony lion trafficking Rusty Blazenhoff

late stage capitalism Please stop buying axolotls and other exotic animals for pets Jennifer Sandlin

Thank You This adorable chinchilla has a very important message for you this Easter: Please don't buy live animals to give as Easter gifts Jennifer Sandlin

books Tears of the Trufflepig is a head-shakingly brilliant novel about contraband animals, Mexico and a labyrinthine conspiracy Elías Villoro

adorable creatures The fennec fox is the cutest animal on the planet Jennifer Sandlin

trains Norfolk Southern gave $5 to Ohio East Palestinians affected by toxic train explosion Thom Dunn

trauma Arizona's Carefarm is where grief can be embraced, not avoided Elías Villoro

Boing Boing Gadgets Here's your sign to learn beginner ASL Boing Boing's Shop

delightful bugs Meet the cockchafer Jennifer Sandlin

Netflix Netflix announces Tiger King 2. Does anyone want it? Annie Rauwerda