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June 9, 2015 Prachi Gupta

Officials landed upon a rare sight at Coney Island on Monday afternoon, finding a dead minke whale on the shore of Brighton Beach, at the end of Ocean Parkway. The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation performed a necropsy to determine the cause of death. In an email to ANIMAL, representative Rachel Bosworth wrote […]

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Liam Mathews

The trial of Andrew Rossig, James Brady, and Marko Markovich, the men who parachuted off 1 WTC in 2013, began on Monday. The three daredevils are facing charges of burglary, reckless endangerment, and violating the city ordinance against BASE jumping. The outcome of their case could have important repercussions for all urban explorers in New […]

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Bucky Turco

al-Jazari, Soho. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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June 8, 2015 Aymann Ismail

We can only imagine what time concertgoers started drinking before Governor’s Ball. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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Liam Mathews

This is a southern pudu fawn that was born May 12 at the Queens Zoo. The southern pudu is native to Chile and Argentina. It is the world’s smallest deer. The tallest it will ever get is 18 inches high. It’s cute as hell. Unfortunately, it’s so cute that looking upon it will cause your […]

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Liam Mathews

Benjamin Farias, the Bronx man who recorded his April 20th arrest and caught the cops who stopped him on the Grand Concourse admitting they “don’t know why the pulled him over,” is filing a suit against the city, alleging unlawful arrest and injury. He claims his wrist was fractured during the arrest. “I knew something […]

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Prachi Gupta

Artisanal ice creams is a tough but booming industry in New York City (a new one just popped up on Friday in the LES). Perhaps that is why Morgenstern’s has resorted to dubbing the next 5 days “Kanye West Ice Cream Week” in order to distinguish itself from the ever-growing crowd. Yeeezus’ birthday is Monday, […]

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Aymann Ismail

Another successful Governors Ball, the closest thing New York has to the millennial hippiefest that is Coachella, wrapped this weekend. ANIMAL showed up Sunday evening at 7 PM, when The Black Keys and Lana Del Rey were headlining, to ask people what time they started drinking. Concertgoers flashed their fingers to tell us what time […]

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Liam Mathews

Everything has been bigger in Texas since before Texas even existed. A report published in the journal PLOS One (the only peer-reviewed journal with a name like a graffiti writer) shares results of a study of shark vertebrae found in the Duck Creek Formation, a rocky area outside of Fort Worth. Husband-and-wife paleontology team Joseph […]

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Aymann Ismail

ANIMAL paired SABE, a NYC-based graffiti writer and artist, with Carter Cruise, an adult film star and deejay. The mission? Teach her graffiti. Cruise met up with us in an industrial area near the Queens-Brooklyn border. SABE pulled out a drippy marker and wrote his name and then hers. He handed her the mop filled […]

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