Cute!

Regular readers may recall that we have a highly scientific assessment of adorableness when assembling weekly roundups of animal videos.

Writing these weekly roundups of adorable animals has been a) delightfully fun, but also b) filled with some unexpected challenges.

This isn't the first time we've featured Red Pandas in this column, but the Greensboro Science Center (my local zoo/aquarium/all-around awesome place) announced this week that their resident red pandas gave birth earlier this month and I feel like we have no choice but to show off how cute Ravi is.

Large stretches of the United States have been facing unpleasant heat in recent weeks, so many of us are thinking icy thoughts.

Cuteness HQ is pleased to present, for your Friday viewing pleasure, some clips of one of the world's most charming rodents.

This week, a couple of our lovely readers mentioned in Discord that scritches are the best.

Being human is an experience that, for all the times it's amazing, can other times feel absolutely awful because it seems like a string of one moment after another where you just want to scream because it's all so infuriating and it just doesn't stop being infuriating and when will the chaos stop?

Australia is home to many critters with big eyes and/or big ears.

Fun fact: Otters actually hold hands to make sure they don't float away from each other while they're sleeping.

Although you will be reading this post on Friday, I am writing it on Monday because I'll be taking a bit of a vacation.