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The Monterey Bay Aquarium in California has a special new arrival this holiday season!

A rescued loggerhead sea turtle spent a day of traveling to the aquarium, coming all the way from North Carolina.

The turtle is one of nine saved hatchlings that didn't make the water after they were born.

This particular turtle is less that half a pound but passed his initial examination!

Crazzzzy! We know we don't even like traveling for an entire day! LOLz!

Tags: aquarium, california, loggerhead sea turtle, monterey bay aquarium, north carolina, rescue, turtle, zoo

Seksi, seksi, SEKSI!

Julianne Hough enjoyed some beach fun in the sun and looked oh so good in her teeny weenie bikini.

But she wasn't having fun alone…she had her two favorite girls, Harley and Lexi!

The trio (along with mom Mari Anne) had a beach workout, doing a few pushups and squats and getting wet. and wild!

Getting fierce and looking FIERCE at the same time…we likey the multi-tasking!

Tags: beach, bikini, dog, harley, julianne hough, lexi, north carolina, pets, workout

Watch out, citizens of Winston-Salem, NC. There's a monkey on the loose!

A escaped monkey is wandering the streets near Wake Forest University after he booked it from one of their labs.

Tags: escape, monkey, north carolina, science, wake forest

Whether it's just a town with lax leash laws or a hound hospitable hotel there are many places that are very dog-friendly.

Here are five of the best spots for you to take your furry friends for some fun in the sun!

Tags: beach, boston, california, dog, dogs, history, leash, new york, north carolina, park, pooch, restaurant, vacation

They successfully stopped the turkey drop from happening back before Thanksgiving, and now PETA's set their sights on the New Year's Opossum drop.

In North Carolina, in a small mountain town, every New Year's for 18 years, they drop a opossum in a transparent box, just as the ball drops in Times Square.

PETA says that the tradition is cruel and illegal.

They make it seem like an opossum is just chucked off a 40-foot ledge.

But the opossum is only slowly lowered from 18-feet up.

The person in charge of the opossum drop said:

"It's a lot of good clean family fun. No alcohol. We advertise it as the only New Year's party you'll remember the next day no matter how much fun you had."

The opossum drop drives a lot of people into the otherwise quiet, 250 resident town.

"It fills the place up. On a warm night, it's about 3,000 people. If it's cold, maybe 2,000."

PETA has sent a letter asking that they use a taxidermic animal, like in Tallapoosa, Georgia.

A PETA rep said:

"The great thing about Tallapoosa is that they don't use a live possum. They use a taxidermied possum."

Guess we'll have to wait and see if PETA can sway the townsfolk and stop the drop.

[Image via AP Images.]

Tags: cruelty, drop, new years, north carolina, opossum, peta, taxidermy, tradiation

It's not too often you see a shark in the colder waters of the East Coast.

It's even rarer to see a great white and capture it on your iPhone!!

Check out the above video to see a huge great white shark swimming off the coast of North Carolina.

Tags: cold, east coast, great white, north carolina, ocean, scary, shark, water

Need a tic-tac?

A dentist from North Carolina recently traveled all the way to Puerto Rico to perform a dental procedure on a 3,000 lb patient.

For the past 20-years Dr. Mike Loomis has being flying south to treat a 39-year-old male hippo named Tomy.

The Ferré zoo's most popular animal suffers from a malocclusion, which prevents his lower teeth from wearing properly, and they eventually overgrow to the point that they interfere with his eating.

"The first time I performed the dental procedure on Tomy, his teeth had grown through his upper lip, making it very painful for him to chew. He was very thin, and I was concerned about the risk of anesthesia. Since then, the zoo has done a great job of making sure that his teeth are trimmed before they get to that point,"

explained Loomis.

Sounds like Tomy is super lucky to have such a talented friend from the states — even if he's not more giving with the anesthesia!

[image via Tom Gillespie N.C. Zoo]

Tags: dentist, friend, hippopotamus, north carolina, procedure, teeth, travel, zoo