Category: Inspiring News

Woman Helps Raise a Baby Flamingo, Months Later, Bird Returns From the Wild and Runs to Her Rescuer

A woman from a small Caribbean island helped raise a baby flamingo who, after a while, disappeared. Many months later, the wild bird flew back, ran right up to her rescuer, and snuggled her in a sweet reunion. Animal lover Elly Albers, 54, runs an eco-tourism business in Bonaire. Elly Albers with Baby, the flamingo. (Courtesy of…


Musician With Brain Cancer Plays Saxophone During 9-Hour Brain Surgery in Rome Hospital

In an intricate “awake” brain surgery, a musician underwent a marathon operation in a private hospital in Rome, remaining conscious the whole time. Not only that, but amazingly he played a saxophone throughout the 9-hour procedure, in one of the first surgeries of its kind ever done. A surgical team led by Dr. Christian Brogna, a neurosurgeon…


Photographer Snaps Once-in-a-Lifetime Lion Photo After 7-Hour Wait in Blistering Heat

After waiting for seven hours in the scorching sun, an Indian wildlife photographer with a passion for big cats snapped a once-in-a-lifetime photo of an Asiatic lion drinking water from a natural source. He had coveted the moment for years, and his powerful photo exemplifies both the majesty and vulnerability of this amazing species. Hardik…


Peek-a-Bear: Photos of Bear Cubs Playing Hide and Seek Will Make You Smile

Wildlife is full of surprises. A 61-year-old Finnish photographer happened to capture a group of chubby bear cubs peeking out from behind trees as if they were playing hide and seek. The mischievous expressions on the cubs’ faces make these photos even more amusing. The cubs, aged around four months, were venturing out with adult bears…


9 Breathtaking Draft Horse Breeds With Long Flowing Manes and Beautifully Feathered Fetlocks

Emblems of both strength and beauty, draft horses were once a mainstay of highly productive societies. They were powerful engines of war, agriculture, and transportation, without which civilization as we know it wouldn’t have been possible. Today these elegant yet strong steeds serve more often as show horses or pulling carriages—like the ones seen in…


Surgeons Find Evidence of a Soul After Patient Describes Operating Room After Declared Dead for 20 Minutes

Dutch near-death-experience (NDE) researchers have compiled more than 70 cases of people who’ve purportedly left their bodies and observed scenes they could not have perceived with their physical senses. The details of what they saw—for example, actions performed by people in the hospital—could be verified, providing perhaps some of the strongest evidence for the mind’s…


Meet the World’s Oldest Living Land Animal, Jonathan the Tortoise Who Is 190 Years Old

The world’s oldest living land animal on record, a tortoise named Jonathan who resides on St. Helena island, is celebrating his 190th birthday and has gained a new world record title. “His official record title is oldest chelonian, a category which encompasses all turtles, terrapins, and tortoises,” Guinness World Records shared on Facebook. Jonathan (left)…


Neuroscientist Explores How Dreams Could Predict Terror Attacks, Future Events: ‘Mental Time Travel’

There are rules in the physical world that don’t apply to the mental one. In a dream, you can fly. One can imagine a squirrel talking to one’s self. The realm of dreams and imagination is, however, often thought to be self-contained, with no tangible bearing on the real world. But the study of precognition…


How It Started How It’s Going: NASA Releases New Space Telescope Photo of ‘Pillars of Creation’ Nebula, Star Nursery

Comparing old Hubble observatory pictures with ones from the brand-new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a bit like contrasting grainy VHS tape with crisp, laser-sharp 4K. NASA just released this show-stopping new nebula photo, adorned with countless baby stars sparkling like cosmic Christmas decorations, and it’s enough to make your knees wobble. The Pillars of…


17 Out-of-Place Artifacts That Suggest High-Tech Civilizations Existed Thousands—or Millions—of Years Ago

According to our conventional view of history, humans have only walked the Earth in our present form for some 200,000 years. Much of the mechanical ingenuity we know of in modern times began to develop only a couple hundred years ago, during the Industrial Revolution. However, evidence today alludes to advanced civilizations existing as long…