animal-attacks
Alligator Drags Off 2-Year-Old at Disney Resort in Orlando
Hudson Hongo · 06/14/16 11:13PMYellowstone Grizzly Bear Euthanized After Killing, Eating Hiker
Hudson Hongo · 08/13/15 06:30PMHudson Hongo · 08/11/15 05:30PM
"Partially Consumed" Hiker Discovered in Yellowstone, Grizzly Suspected
Hudson Hongo · 08/09/15 05:45PM"Fuck That Alligator": Man Killed Seconds After Mocking Gator Warning
Hudson Hongo · 07/05/15 07:30PMGroundhog Predicts Six More Seconds of Biting The Mayor's Ear Off
Jay Hathaway · 02/02/15 05:40PMLow-rent Punxsutawney Phil impersonator Jimmy the Groundhog has the easy annual task of predicting each February whether Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, will experience six more weeks of winter (yes: it is in Wisconsin). This year, the job got to him a little bit as he whispered his prognostication into Mayor Jonathan Freund's ear: The weather will be—got your ear, sucker! I'm biting your damn ear off! How you like me now?
Giant Crocodile Drags Swimmer to Death, Ruins Birthday Party
Taylor Berman · 08/25/13 05:00PMMan Narrowly Escapes Death After Taunting 1500 Pound Bison
Taylor Berman · 03/27/13 11:41PMLondon's Urban Foxes: A Playful Menace
Mallory Ortberg · 02/10/13 05:00PMSide Effects of Global Warming You’re Not Worried About Enough Yet
Mallory Ortberg · 10/13/12 08:58AMNew evidence indicates that our recent bouts of Extreme Weather might be caused by global warming, and not by sick BMX tricks as previously thought. And climate change is apparently increasing the amount of ice in Antarctica. Sure, everyone's ("everyone's") concerned about the plight of equatorial island nations in the face of rising sea levels and the annual die-off of the elderly and indigent during the summer heat waves along the Atlantic seaboard. But there are a great many more sinister changes that should be giving us pause. Such as:
Oregon Man Gets Devoured by Hogs
Louis Peitzman · 10/01/12 07:19PMBison Charges Small Child at Yellowstone, Proves We Should All Just Stay Inside
Taylor Berman · 09/09/12 08:02PMAs if the hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite wasn't enough to keep you inside and away from national parks forever, now comes news that wild bison in Yellowstone are charging innocent children. As the Daily Mail, England's paper of record, notes, the child was encouraged by his parents to approach the bison, who was near a wooden walkway in the park. The bison did what taunted bison are wont to do, and charged the small child. He escaped, and his parents, or whatever responsible adults were with him, laughed and laughed.