At first, a Belgian man thought the noise coming from his outdoor planter was pesky pigeons. Turns out, it was Europe’s largest owl — four of them. One of the world’s largest owls, the Eurasian eagle owl, set up camp in Jos Baart’s third-storey apartment planter. Since the mother owl’s three gigantic chicks hatched, they’ve taken to watching TV through the window with their new landlord.

A group of friends with big dreams and even bigger hearts started a summer business that is helping black-owned businesses and neighborhoods in Minneapolis affected by the coronavirus pandemic and protests following the death of George Floyd.

An anonymous couple gifted a Texas waitress a car after learning she walked 14 miles round-trip in order to get to work. “I still feel like I’m dreaming,” Adrianna Edwards, who works at a Denny’s in Galveston, told KTRK-TV. “Every two hours, I come look out my window and see if there’s still a car there.”

A grandfather in Oregon wanted to do something special for his grandkids this Christmas, and his idea makes for a pretty unique gift that can be used for years to come.

With the chain of unfortunate events occurring around the world simultaneously, one cannot help but to hope for a silver lining that would tone down, even for a moment, the devastation that is unraveling before our very eyes. More often that not, it can come in the form of a heartwarming news about a certain incident involving animals and their selfless acts.

It had been nine long years of fertility treatments, miscarriages and adoption stress, but Dustin and Caren Moore finally were on a flight home with their adopted baby girl in their arms. They nervously cradled their daughter, who was just 8 days old.

Marriage requires a lot of important ingredients to flourish. For John and Charlotte Henderson, that equation sustained their marriage for 80 years now. They are both at respectable ages as well. John Henderson is 107 while his wife is 105. They’ve seen numerous major events in American history and world history. They have seen an era when kings sent armies to conquer lands and watched the first man go into outer space. And they witnessed all of this together as the world’s oldest married couple.

It's a sweet moment. A young boy running up to a man delivering pizza and giving him a big hug. All caught on a doorbell camera in West Warwick, Rhode Island by Lindsey Sheely. "I put it up on my Instagram because we thought it was funny and cute," said Sheely. What Sheely didn't know at the time is what that moment would mean for the man behind the pizza box, Ryan Catterson.

As social distancing guidelines remain in effect, animal rescue advocates are celebrating a huge win in Chicago. For the first time in the shelter’s history, Chicago Animal Care and Control is completely empty of adoptable animals. There’s no doubt that we’re living in unprecedented times, and there’s even more doom and gloom in the news than usual. But behind all that worry, there are stories popping up around the country of people coming together to accomplish great things.

Kimberly Wieneke says she knew she loved 2-year-old Jaden the minute he came into her family's life.

More than a month after tornadoes tore apart Middle Tennessee, a beloved pup made reunited with her family in Putnam County. WTVF reported that Eric and Faith Johnson had been searching for their Australian Shepherd named Bella for 54 days after a tornado destroyed their home in Cookeville March 3.

Here’s some happy news, courtesy of Adventure Aquarium. The aquarium’s third little blue penguin chick is “doing well and growing strong," general curator Nicole Grandinetti said Monday. She weighed less than 2 ounces upon being hatched April 2, but is now up to 11.6 ounces and eating fish including silversides, trout and herring filets.

An Australian Koolie dog who was abandoned by his family has been rescued and retrained to detect koalas. Bear has been following the aftermath of Australia's bushfires since January, finding sick, injured or starving koalas that otherwise would have perished. He has now found more than 100.

The emotional moment a U.S. Air Force captain, who had been serving in Afghanistan for six months, surprised his wife by sneaking up on her while wearing scuba gear, has been captured on film.

Cute baby pig!

Frogmouths can definitely be cute as well!

A happy dog!

Or is it?

The Kakapo is critically endangered; as of March 2014, with an additional six from the first hatchings since 2011, the total known population is only 130 living individuals, as reported by the Kakapo Recovery program, most of which have been given names.

These polar bears have a strange relationship with these arctic dogs. They play together and pet the dogs.