Daily Distraction

In honor of the polar vortex currently wrapping its ice-cold hands around the country's throat, we thought it would be fun to take a trip to a summertime favorite: the amusement park.

Get ready to have your emotions played like a flute.

Babies can have trouble staying focused.

We humans love our boats. Animals also think they're pretty darn great.

It's time to put the year 2013 in the books. Let's do it with some photos.

These people seem to really like to sweat, just not with all that running-around nonsense.

A duckling needs to do one thing above all others: follow his mother. But sometimes, that's a bit harder than it sounds.

Hedgehogs sometimes curl up into a little ball of irresistible fur. It's quite photogenic.

If you own a cat, it won't surprise you that a cat feels about a sweater the way a person might feel about a straitjacket.

It's hard enough for us humans to stay upright on ice, and we have the most advanced brains on the planet.