Many volunteer opportunities have cropped up in the wake of the Palisades and Eaton Fires. One of them: Reunite kids with stuffed animals that were abandoned or destroyed when their homes burned down.

When stuffed animals react to being stroked, the person stroking them is happy and builds up an emotional relationship with the stuffed animal, at least for a short time. The Tobot company wants ...

So lucrative are these playthings that Warren Buffett bought the parent company of Squishmallows, an American purveyor of rotund stuffed animals ... sought succour in cute playthings.

The New York Times talked to six truck drivers for a story about the reasons truckers have stuffed animals as hood ornaments ... laborious jobs and just need something cute to latch onto.

Gen Z isn’t playing around when it comes to their love of stuffed animals. Young adults are leading the plush toy boom as the “kidult” frenzy reaches a fever pitch, with millions of videos ...

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Along with a video of Stanley cuddling on a couch with a Simba stuffy, his humans wrote, “I noticed our dog kept taking his baby brother’s stuffed animals, and then I noticed something…” Any toy with ...

Jan. 31, 2025 — DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver. Based on DNA analysis from the bite wounds on the carcass of a large white shark washed ...

Often dubbed the unicorns of the sea, narwhals are strange and beautiful creatures with long tusks protruding from their heads. Members of the population of more than 80,000 can weigh up to 4,200 ...

A Bears fixture since 2001, the toss of teddy bears and other stuffed animals takes place after the Bears score their first goal. The Bears said Sunday night this toss set another franchise record ...