One dog mom was shocked when her golden retriever tried to bring home a baby deer! This woman caught some hilarious footage of her pooch, Sadie, prancing around with a little fawn. Not only did the friendly dog seem quite taken with the wild animal, but the deer was also very interested in Sadie! The owner couldn’t believe the attachment these two formed in a matter of moments. There’s a possibility that the fawn thought this golden retriever was actually a grown-up deer. After all, the baby did try to feed from her! Sadie’s mom caught a once-in-a-lifetime photo of the little animal attempting to nurse. @kentuckyhighlandcows Sadie is the best girl and this entire ordeal was so special. #caughtoncamera #nature #goldenretriever #foryou ♬ original sound – Kentucky highland cows Although the friendship between the baby deer and the golden retriever was pretty cute, the dog’s owner was worried. She had no idea what to do with the fawn, especially if their parents weren’t around! “Sadie, you can’t keep that,” Mom joked. “You’ve got to put that back where you found it.” On a more serious note, she added, “What are we going to do with this?” Thankfully, the baby deer’s mom came back. Screengrab from TikTok Eventually, the dog’s owner decided that the best course of action was to separate the two. Sure enough, once the golden retriever was out of sight, Mama deer returned. “I really don’t know what we would have done with this little fawn,” said Sadie’s mom, relieved. One commenter was curious to know if the dog actually had any milk to share with the baby animal. Her owner confirmed that, yes, this golden retriever was a recent mom, so she could actually feed the deer! “She was drying up from a litter of puppies we had,” the woman explained in her response. It’s amazing how motherly instincts can translate across species! Even though this golden retriever was definitely not the deer’s mom, she still felt the need to care for this fawn. What a sweet dog! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Golden Retriever Returns From Meadow With New “Puppy” — A Deer Fawn! appeared first on InspireMore.

This week, “dark oxygen” appears to be made from natural batteries found on the deep ocean floor, the most complete Neanderthal skeleton ever found still can’t be excavated, and the record for the hottest day has been smashed twice this week. Finally, we ask which events animals would win if they could compete in the Olympics.Subscribe to the IFLScience newsletter for all the biggest science news delivered straight to your inbox every Wednesday and Saturday. NASA Will Soon Launch An Artificial Star Into Orbit Over The USAWhen you look up at the 200 billion trillion (ish) stars, you probably don't think about adding another – but in a first-of-its-kind mission, NASA aims to launch an artificial "star" over the USA before the end of the decade. The Landolt mission will place a calibrated light source into orbit at a distance of 35,785 kilometers (22,236 miles) from the Earth, appearing as a new star in the sky. Read the full story hereNatural Batteries On The Deep Ocean Floor Appear To Be Making “Dark Oxygen”The discovery of a source of deep-sea oxygen has shocked marine researchers and could force a radical rethink across several areas of science, including the quest for extraterrestrial life. The oxygen is produced not by photosynthesis, but by minerals 4,000 meters down on the ocean floor. Read the full story hereBarbershop Elephants: First-Ever “Let’s Go” Recordings Reveal Incredible HarmoniesA world-first recording has revealed the harmonious way male African elephants signal when it's time to move on by vocalizing a bit like a barbershop quartet. One bull begins the call to action, and one by one, the others join in to create a sonorous, infrasonic chorus that rumbles across the landscape. Read the full story hereThe Most Complete Neanderthal Skeleton Ever Found Still Can't Be ExcavatedDeep within a cave in southern Italy, a strangely atypical Neanderthal man has been stuck upside down for around 150,000 years. Named Altamura Man, this remarkable skeleton represents one of the most spectacular human fossils ever discovered and could help to clear up some of the mysteries surrounding our evolution as a species – if only we could get the old bloke out. Read the full story hereThe Record For Hottest Day Ever Recorded Has Been Smashed Twice This WeekOn Sunday, July 21, the hottest day since records began in 1940 was reported, only for the next day, Monday, July 22 to break that record. That day, the planet had an average temperature of 17.15°C (62.87°F), only fractionally hotter than the previous record on July 6, 2023, but the heat record being broken twice in the same month is not good.  Read the full story hereTWIS is published weekly on our Linkedin page, join us there for even more content.Feature of the week: If Animals Could Compete In The Olympics, Which Events Would They Win?When they were created, the Olympics were only open to amateurs, a restriction dropped decades ago. Nevertheless, at least one form of discrimination still stands – you need to be a member of the species Homo sapiens to compete (equestrian events aside). With the Paris games upon us, it’s time to consider what would happen if we made the ultimate sporting contest a true event for the entire planet. Read the full story hereMore content:Have you seen our e-magazine, CURIOUS? It’s just turned 2! Issue 24 July 2024 is available now. Check it out for exclusive interviews, book excerpts, long reads, and more.PLUS, season 4 of IFLScience's The Big Questions Podcast has begun. So far we’ve asked “Why Are We The Only Surviving Human Species?”, “How Is Climate Change Impacting Our Health?”, and “Is Evolutionary Biology Sexist?”

Dropping someone a quick DM on Instagram might be a much more efficient way to communicate in the modern day, but there’s something to be said about the longevity of much older ways of sending a message, none more so than a good ol’ message in a bottle – of which the oldest ever found has stuck around for an impressively long time.Back in 2018, on a beach just north of Wedge Island in Australia, Tonya Illman stumbled upon what later turned out to be a 132-year-old message in a bottle.“It just looked like a lovely old bottle so I picked it up thinking it might look good in my bookcase,” said Illman in a statement made at the time. “My son’s girlfriend was the one who discovered the note when she went to tip the sand out. The note was damp, rolled tightly and wrapped with string. We took it home and dried it out, and when we opened it we saw it was a printed form, in German, with very faint German handwriting on it.”After some online investigations by Illman and her husband, they suspected that the find could have been part of a 69-year-long drift bottle experiment – an experiment used to study ocean surface currents – conducted by the German Naval Observatory.Notes placed in these bottles had details of the date they were thrown overboard, the coordinates where that took place, the name and route of the ship, and overleaf, a request to whoever found the bottle to return it, with details of when and where it was found, to the German Naval Observatory or a German consulate.Details on the note found by Illman suggested that the bottle had been on a ship sailing from Cardiff, Wales, to Makassar, Indonesia back in 1886. After inspection from experts – which included dating the paper and handwriting comparisons – at the Western Australian Museum and modern-day offshoots of the German Naval Observatory, the find was confirmed as the oldest message in a bottle ever found.“Incredibly, an archival search in Germany found Paula’s original Meteorological Journal and there was an entry for 12 June 1886 made by the captain, recording a drift bottle having been thrown overboard,” said Dr Ross Anderson, Assistant Curator Maritime Archaeology at the WA Museum. “The date and the coordinates correspond exactly with those on the bottle message.”However, there are a couple of more recent contenders that could be coming for the 132-year-old message’s crown.Found beneath the rather less sandy floorboards of a house in Scotland in 2022, a plumber uncovered what’s believed to be a 135-year-old message in a bottle. Older still may be a note within an aqua-colored bottle recently discovered on a beach in New Jersey.In both cases, confirmation of the notes’ ages is yet to come, so for the moment at least, a bottle from an experiment still pumping out results over 130 years later still reigns champion.

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