May 11, 2025

Heartwarming Rescues, Adventurous Spirits, and Dinosaur Discoveries

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Highlights include a heroic golden retriever rescuing a missing toddler, a 66-year-old grandmother embarking on an ambitious global cycling journey, and a 90-year-old Galapagos tortoise becoming a new mother. We also hear about the discovery of a new dinosaur species in Canada and a touching story of a boy's heartfelt farewell to his favorite sanitation worker.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Thanks to listener Richard who sent this

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one in. A Golden retriever helped rescue a missing toddler.

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Brad was home and said, if it wasn't for Zoe,

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no one would have realized that this boy was running

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around in front of the house. The dog started absolutely

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losing her mind. She started barking like crazy, borderline screaming.

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Zoe was bothered by something outside. Brad said, I saw

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what looked to be a three year old boy walking

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on the driveway over our next door neighbor. He ran outside,

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alerted his neighbor. I went to talk to him, make

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sure it wasn't one of his kids or kid he knew.

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They tried asking the boy, who are you what are

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you doing there? That didn't work. The kid kind of shrugged,

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never said a word. The boy gestured to a house

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across the street. They went across the street with the boy.

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No one there recognized him. We're doing everything we could

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to find out where the kid came from. He called

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the police. The operator asked is he wearing gray sweatpants?

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After confirmation they heard the operation or yell they found him.

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Police officers arrived a few minutes later. A statement from

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the PDEs as officers arrived quickly confirmed the child's identity

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and reunited them with their parent after a medical evaluation.

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Their report does state that the citizen who located the

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child was alerted by their dog. Thankfully, this incident had

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a good and swift ending. A sixty six year old

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grandmother who has already biked solo through twelve countries across

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three continents, is working on traveling to one hundred countries.

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Leed took up cycling in twenty thirteen and told CNN Travel,

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my goal is to visit at least one hundred countries.

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Travels like a drug. Once you taste it, you just

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can't stop. Lee only speaks Mandarin and employs the use

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of translator apps in order to communicate with locals. She's

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on a tight budget. So far, she's camped in parks,

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gas stations, even cemeteries, and stayed at the homes of

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Good Samaritan she's met along the way. She said, before cycling,

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I was heavily dependent on others and felt like a

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frog in a well. Now I'm a wild, wol free

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fearless and independent. Love it nice job by Mommy, the

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Western Santa Cruz Galopokos tortoise. Mommy has become the oldest

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first time mom of her species. Mommy has lived at

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the Philadelphia Zoo most of her life. She and Abraso,

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who's ninety six, are the new parents to four hatchlings.

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The species is critically endangered. The hatchlings will reside at

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the zoo for at least five years. They'll live in

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a protected habitat in the Reptile and Amphibian House. Rachel

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Metz is the Zoo's VP of Animal well Being in

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Conservation and explains they won't be in the yard yet

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because they're far too small. The yard is obviously designed

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for three hundred or four uner pound animals, not half

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pound animals. Mommy arrived at the zoo in nineteen thirty

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two straight from the Galapagos. Abraso arrived at the zoo

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in twenty twenty. The staff introduced the two in twenty

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twenty two, but they didn't you hit it off until recently.

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Met says, at first, it was clear he didn't quite

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know what he was doing. He was backward. So the

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zoo tweaked their habits at and swapped out some material

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and made some better digging spots for egg land. In November,

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mommy buried sixteen eggs. Now, what's interesting. If you incubate

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at eighty five point one degrees, hatchlings are most likely females.

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Temperatures below eighty two point four degrees produce males. Met says,

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I always referred to it as cool dudes and hot chicks.

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Paleontologists in Canada have identified a new tail club swinging

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armored dinosaur. That's right, nodosaurid have a flexible tail and

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four toes. Now, researchers have explained there are two main

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groups of anklosaurs. As you know, noosaurid anklosaurs have a

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flexible tail in four toes, while anklosaurid anklosaurs have a

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sledgehammer like tail club and only three toes on their feet.

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And if you think I didn't make seven takes at

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that sentence in five edits, you're crazy. That was not

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easy to say anyway. Unlike the well known footprints of

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tetra Potosaurus borealis found across North America, those of course

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have four toes. The new tracks only we have three toes.

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The new species has been named Ruo Potsurus clava, which

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means the tumbled down lizard with a club mace, referencing

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both the mountainous location which the tracks were found at

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the distinctive tail clubs of the dinosaurs. That story was exhausting.

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All right, one more, and this is a downer. I've

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told you about this one before. The nine year old

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boy who would come out and say hi to the

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sanitation worker in the mornings. Yeah, little Noah, his mom said.

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For years, every Tuesday, he'd run outside a wave and

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the garbage man always waved back hawk the horn acknowledged him. No.

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When the drivers were friends for four years, but a

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new company took over the garbage route, the driver no

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longer goes past Noah's house, mom says, And what we

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told him was the last time I'd see the garbage man.

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Noah immediately ran inside to write him a note and

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grab some of his old garbage truck toys to give

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to him. He was so sweet, he just wanted to

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say thank you. It was like saying goodbye a part

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of his childhood. And no, you're crying, I'm not crying.

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Next time,