Tag Archives: Animals

If you’ve ever been thrown into a highly stressful situation and left to fend for yourself, you’ve likely been told that your options are to “sink or swim.” This idiom, which has existed since at least the 14th Century and has appeared in the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare, is thought to have originated either… Read More »

If ever there was a poster child for human-caused extinction, it was the Dodo. This odd-looking flightless bird, native to the remote island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, was first encountered by Dutch sailors in 1598. Barely six decades later, the Dodo was all but extinct, wiped out by hungry sailors and invasive species… Read More »

Somewhere in Siberia around 23,000 years ago, a particularly brave wolf or wolves wandered into a human campsite in search of food and the humans and said animal were apparently like “Did we just become best friends?!?!?!?” 23 millennia of selective breeding later, and we have succeeded in turning a once wild and fearsome beast… Read More »