Moshu was known as "Sir Snacks-a-Lot."
(June 20, 2011 – May 14, 2025)

Moshu was diagnosed with severe heart disease over a
year ago.
(KATU)

The first Groundhog Day celebration in 1887.

On February 2, 1887, Groundhog Day, featuring a rodent
meteorologist, was celebrated for the first time at Gobbler’s
Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

According to tradition, if a groundhog comes out of its hole
on this day and sees its shadow, it gets scared and runs
back into its burrow, predicting six more weeks of winter
weather; no shadow means an early spring.

Groundhog Day has its roots in the ancient Christian tradition
of Candlemas (below) when clergy would bless and distribute
candles needed for winter.       

Archaeologists in Iowa have unearthed an ancient mastodon
skull in pristine condition, which they hope will provide clues
about human interaction with the ancient animal.

The bones were excavated earlier this month from a creek bank
in Wayne, taking nearly two weeks to complete.

The eroding site was first brought to the attention of Office of
the State Archaeologist, Iowa in 2022. 
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Human and a reconstructed extinct Mastodon. (Wikimedia Commons)

Eddie Templeton (pictured) found a portion of an Ice Age-
era elephant tusk exposed in a steep embankment while exploring in Madison County, Mississippi. (Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality).

Columbian mammoths (below) were larger than wooly mammoths that roamed the northern regions of North
America, growing up to 15 feet and weighing over 10
tons, according to the MDEQ. (Mississippi Department
of Environmental Quality)
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On December 22, 1956, a baby gorilla named Colo entered the
world at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, becoming the first-ever
gorilla born in captivity.

Before Colo’s birth, gorillas found at zoos were caught in the
wild, often by brutal means. In order to capture a gorilla when
it was young and therefore still small enough to handle,
hunters frequently had to kill the gorilla’s parents and other
family members.  

Colo was fond of baseball caps.

Colo on her 60^th birthday, surpassed the median life expectancy for female gorillas in human care (37.5 years) by more than two
decades.

Colo became a mother of three, grandmother of 16, great-
grandmother of 12 and great-great-grandmother of three.

She died in her sleep January 17, 2017, less than a month
after her birthday.