Good news! The emperor penguin who strayed 3,000 miles from its home on Antarctica, to New Zealand — where he/she ate six-and-a-half pounds of wet sand, thinking it was snow — is reportedly doing much better. After we watched last week's bleak video of the lost penguin barely able to move during his rescue from the…

A trio of teenagers adrift for two months in the South Pacific were found yesterday by a New Zealand fishing boat "in a lonely part of the ocean." They'd subsisted on rainwater, coconuts, and the meat of a single bird.

Last Sunday, airport staff in Bangkok rescued this two-month-old tiger cub from a smuggler boarding a plane to Iran. The poor little guy was drugged and hidden in a pile of stuffed toy tigers.