Heartwarming Rescues, Adventurous Spirits, and Dinosaur Discoveries

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Thanks to listener Richard who sent this one in. A Golden retriever helped rescue a missing toddler. Brad was home and said, if it wasn't for Zoe, no one would have realized that this boy was running around in front of the house. The dog started absolutely losing her mind. She started barking like crazy, borderline screaming. Zoe was bothered by something outside. Brad said, I saw what looked to be a three year old boy walking on the driveway over our next door neighbor. He ran outside, alerted his neighbor. I went to talk to him, make sure it wasn't one of his kids or kid he knew. They tried asking the boy, who are you what are you doing there? That didn't work. The kid kind of shrugged, never said a word. The boy gestured to a house across the street. They went across the street with the boy.

0:49 No one there recognized him. We're doing everything we could to find out where the kid came from. He called the police. The operator asked is he wearing gray sweatpants? After confirmation they heard the operation or yell they found him. Police officers arrived a few minutes later. A statement from the PDEs as officers arrived quickly confirmed the child's identity and reunited them with their parent after a medical evaluation. Their report does state that the citizen who located the child was alerted by their dog. Thankfully, this incident had a good and swift ending. A sixty six year old grandmother who has already biked solo through twelve countries across three continents, is working on traveling to one hundred countries. Leed took up cycling in twenty thirteen and told CNN Travel, my goal is to visit at least one hundred countries.

1:32 Travels like a drug. Once you taste it, you just can't stop. Lee only speaks Mandarin and employs the use of translator apps in order to communicate with locals. She's on a tight budget. So far, she's camped in parks, gas stations, even cemeteries, and stayed at the homes of Good Samaritan she's met along the way. She said, before cycling, I was heavily dependent on others and felt like a frog in a well. Now I'm a wild, wol free fearless and independent. Love it nice job by Mommy, the Western Santa Cruz Galopokos tortoise. Mommy has become the oldest first time mom of her species. Mommy has lived at the Philadelphia Zoo most of her life. She and Abraso, who's ninety six, are the new parents to four hatchlings.

2:15 The species is critically endangered. The hatchlings will reside at the zoo for at least five years. They'll live in a protected habitat in the Reptile and Amphibian House. Rachel Metz is the Zoo's VP of Animal well Being in Conservation and explains they won't be in the yard yet because they're far too small. The yard is obviously designed for three hundred or four uner pound animals, not half pound animals. Mommy arrived at the zoo in nineteen thirty two straight from the Galapagos. Abraso arrived at the zoo in twenty twenty. The staff introduced the two in twenty twenty two, but they didn't you hit it off until recently. Met says, at first, it was clear he didn't quite know what he was doing. He was backward. So the zoo tweaked their habits at and swapped out some material and made some better digging spots for egg land. In November, mommy buried sixteen eggs. Now, what's interesting. If you incubate at eighty five point one degrees, hatchlings are most likely females.

3:10 Temperatures below eighty two point four degrees produce males. Met says, I always referred to it as cool dudes and hot chicks. Paleontologists in Canada have identified a new tail club swinging armored dinosaur. That's right, nodosaurid have a flexible tail and four toes. Now, researchers have explained there are two main groups of anklosaurs. As you know, noosaurid anklosaurs have a flexible tail in four toes, while anklosaurid anklosaurs have a sledgehammer like tail club and only three toes on their feet. And if you think I didn't make seven takes at that sentence in five edits, you're crazy. That was not easy to say anyway. Unlike the well known footprints of tetra Potosaurus borealis found across North America, those of course have four toes. The new tracks only we have three toes.

4:02 The new species has been named Ruo Potsurus clava, which means the tumbled down lizard with a club mace, referencing both the mountainous location which the tracks were found at the distinctive tail clubs of the dinosaurs. That story was exhausting. All right, one more, and this is a downer. I've told you about this one before. The nine year old boy who would come out and say hi to the sanitation worker in the mornings. Yeah, little Noah, his mom said. For years, every Tuesday, he'd run outside a wave and the garbage man always waved back hawk the horn acknowledged him. No. When the drivers were friends for four years, but a new company took over the garbage route, the driver no longer goes past Noah's house, mom says, And what we told him was the last time I'd see the garbage man.

4:47 Noah immediately ran inside to write him a note and grab some of his old garbage truck toys to give to him. He was so sweet, he just wanted to say thank you. It was like saying goodbye a part of his childhood. And no, you're crying, I'm not crying. Next time,