If you are in the area of Willamette Valley, Oregon hiking is permitted at several of those refuges, but once you cross over to jogging or running within the areas of Baskett Slough, Ankeny, and William L. Finley not so much. It’s prohibited in those refuges and considered “incompatible use” of the trails. Miel Corbett, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service deputy assistant regional director... 

The Lyrid meteor shower happens each year in mid-April when the Earth passes through debris from the Comet Thatcher (C/1861 G1), which orbits the sun once every 415 years. Humans have been observing this particular meteor shower for at least 2,600 years. Unfortunately, the moon will spoil the meteor shower because it’s in the bright gibbous phase. Even then, the Lyrid meteor shower typically... 

Oklahoma was woke up in the wee hours of the morning multiple times because of earthquakes shaking the state. Five earthquakes total shook Oklahoma today, on Tuesday, April 16. USGS geophysicist Jana Pursley says the earthquakes began with a 3.0 magnitude around 1:45 a.m. Tuesday and all were centered northeast of Oklahoma City. A 4.3 magnitude earthquake happened today at 1:56 a.m. with an epicenter... 

A cat that was shot in the eye by a paintball gun in Canada will be available for adoption at the Edmonton Humane Society. An eight-month old orange tabby cat was found stray in Fort Saskatchewan, Canada with his face covered in red paint and his left eye dangling from the socket. “We can’t believe that someone actually did this. Animals can’t defend themselves and truly deserve dignity... 

During a trip to South Sudan’s Bangangai Game Preserve in July 2012, scientists were collecting bats and noticed one of them in the net didn’t look like the others. DeeAnn Reeder, Ph.D., an associate professor of biology at Pennsylvania’s Bucknell University, uncovered this extraordinary new genus of bat that she calls the “find of a lifetime.” “I was just ecstatic,”... 

For generations, Eastern European Balkan region housewives have known that kidney bean leaves trap bedbugs, so they would spread an infested room at night with the leave and collect then burn them in the morning. In 1943, a group of researchers studied this method and attributed it to microscopic plant hairs called trichomes that grow on the leaves’ surface and entangle the bed bug legs. Researchers... 

A Japanese fish made it’s way across the Pacific ocean riding in a small boat that is believed to be from debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife speculate the boat remained upright during trek across the Pacific Ocean. An official from the wildlife department discovered the fish in a water-filled bait box on a 20-foot-long Japanese... 

Archaeologists claim Gates to Hell have been discovered in the ancient Phrygian city of Hierapolis, now Pamukkale in south-western Turkey. The discovery was made by Francesco D’Andria, a professor of classic archaeology at the University of Salento in Italy, who two years ago also claimed he found the tomb of Saint Philip the Apostle in a nearby location. During a conference on Italian archaeology... 

The Flathead Lake monster myth was featured on Monsters and Mysteries in America. The series, began on Destination America which is a Discovery Channel you may not know you even have. The show takes an approach to unexplained and possibly fictitious phenomena. Tim Shattuck, who was contacted by the production company who started Monsters and Mysteries series, says soon after he started his Flathead... 

A team from the University of California at Santa Cruz says Ronan, the Sea Lion, is the first non-human mammal to prove the ability to “keep the beat” with music. Prior to the study, keeping beat was only seen in humans and birds talented in vocal mimicry. Researchers used a metronome and fresh fish to train Ronan to match movements to rhythm of music played over speakers in her concrete...