Bethanie is a writer, editor, and author of animal-science books for kids. She covers camping, hiking, gear, inspiring stories, wildlife, adventure travel, and more for the Outdoors.com. She always has a few camping trips on the calendar.
A black bear broke into a California family’s home, found something to eat, and then left without cleaning up its mess. Watch here.
The world’s “fattest” parrot species is a rare, flightless bird called a Kākāpō, and one famous Kākāpō just became a mom. Watch here.
A young man spotted a struggling dog in a freezing-cold pond behind his home in Chesapeake, Virginia, and he jumped into action.
More than a dozen other wildlife photographers spent hours waiting for the moment a rare “ghost” emerged from a very long nap. Watch here.
This TikTok user admits she was “today years old” when she learned that people actually live inside the Grand Canyon. Her video went viral.
Search-and-rescue officials were searching for a missing person in Estonia, and they found something else entirely—a very playful bear.
A bear delayed a group’s checkout from their Tahoe Airbnb by breaking into the visitors’ vehicles and raiding their snacks.
Every March, a unique shadow appears at a certain spot on the Superstition Mountains in Arizona . . . it looks a whole lot like a cougar.
The Camden Fire Department had to abort a drone mission after a barred owl became fascinated by the strange flying object. Watch here.
Strong gusts of wind threatened to blow a devoted bald eagle parent out of its nest and off its eggs. Not today, wind. Watch here.