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Pet owners share what it’s really like living with the ‘least popular’ dog breed in America

They say the English Foxhound isn’t a great family dog. Some owners disagree.

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11 ‘unspoken rules’ cats expect their humans to know and follow

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Sorry, Labradors. After 31 years, America has a new favorite dog.

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Queen’s Brian May turned 157 acres of private land into a 100,000-tree reserve and animal rescue

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Florida zoo captures adorable moment when a newborn baby sloth meets his dad

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California brought back beavers for the first time in 70 years, and the results are already amazing

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Turns out menopause might be an evolutionary trait to ensure the survival of a species

Only a few mammals live beyond child bearing years and human females are one of them.

Jacalyn Wetzel – 01/28/25
Turns out menopause might be an evolutionary trait to ensure the survival of a species
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17 of the funniest finalists in the 2026 Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

Tod Perry – 10/2/2026
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Study reveals which dog breed is the smartest, and it’s not what you might expect

Annie Reneau & Upworthy Staff – 10/2/2026
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5 fishermen spotted a drowning baby elephant. Then they tracked down its mother.

Adam Albright-Hanna – 10/1/2026
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Researchers dumped coffee waste into a forest and couldn’t believe what it looked like 2 years later

Tod Perry & Upworthy Staff – 9/30/2026
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New Orleans was tossing bottles into landfills, so students upcycled 14 million lbs of glass into coastal sand

Patrick Hamilton – 9/29/2026

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Trendy ‘grandma showers’ get a lot of flack online, but when can they be a good thing?

Heather Wake – 9/30/2025
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He made a teeny house for a stray cat visitor, and it turned into an adorable kitty village

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Genius amputee makes outlandish prosthetic legs, but his cat scratching post may be best of all

Heather Wake – 9/28/2026
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Beavers were brought to the desert to save a dying river. 6 years later, here are the results.

Evan Porter & Upworthy Staff – 9/27/2026