Two puppies found with their jaws wired shut in a Queens dumpster are now healthy and available for adoption in Manhattan. Poppy and Petunia, both four months old, were discovered abandoned in Flushing on July 12 and rushed to an…
A boat operator in Norway’s Arctic was fined over $5,000 for blasting a foghorn at a sleeping polar bear. The vessel was sailing off the coast of the Svalbard archipelago, roughly 620 miles from the North Pole, earlier this month…
An 8-year-old Pennsylvania boy reeled in a red-bellied piranha from a suburban lake. Seamus Coffey, 8, of Folsom, was fishing with his father Michael at Ridley Park Lake in Delaware County last Saturday morning when the unexpected catch occurred. “At…
Allison Janney, 66, opened up about never marrying or having children on a podcast this week. The Oscar winner appeared on the “Reclaiming With Monica Lewinsky” episode that dropped Tuesday. Janney admitted she always assumed she would wed because “at…
A Nashville U-Haul worker has been charged with criminal homicide after allegedly shooting his co-worker dead over a drink dispute. Devin Rice, 23, was arrested on Aug. 5 following the fatal shooting of Fredrick Lytton, 56, at a U-Haul store…
NASA assured the world that Earth will not lose gravity on Aug. 12, dismissing viral conspiracy theories that claimed the planet would experience a gravitational anomaly this week. View this post on Instagram Earth’s gravity, or total gravitational force, is…
The Timber Fire burning in Big Sur continued to grow overnight, with the fire having burned 2,000 acres and containing 5% as of 7 a.m. Tuesday. View this post on Instagram The fire was first reported around 9:40 p.m. Saturday…
A Kentucky couple is behind bars after a one-year-old boy was left to choke to death on his own dirty diaper inside a garage filled with urine and trash cans, authorities said. Deavan Williams, 22, is facing wanton murder and…
A wild video captured an unnamed tourist being knocked to the ground by a European bison in Stara Białowieża, Poland’s Białowieża Forest, after he approached the animal too closely. View this post on Instagram The incident happened on Monday in…
Cornell University has added a new rule banning the processing of wild game in school kitchens months after two students went viral for carving up a bear in a dormitory kitchen. Aaron Chin, one of the two Cornell students who…
Bay Head is a small borough on the Jersey Shore’s barrier island nestled between Point Pleasant and Mantoloking, less than one square mile with pristine beaches and family-friendly attractions. In winter the population of Bay Head is about 1,000 people,…
**Key facts:** – Location: Pine Point Beach in Scarborough, Maine – Timeline: Tuesday (Aug. 4) and Wednesday (Aug. 5) – Tuesday: 2 juvenile great white sharks, 6-8 feet long spotted by fisherman – Wednesday: 5-7 sharks spotted by drone operator…
– Susan Solari, 70, was identified as the longtime owner of Hinterland German Shepherds, a breeding operation that had been based on the property for decades – The woman refused to evacuate a residence on the 4600 block of Jaquima…
A physician has drawn attention to the early warning signs of leprosy as Florida continues to record more cases of the infectious illness, which can lead to blindness when it is not treated. Two additional cases have now been confirmed…
Gabe Yanez, an experienced hiker, was jogging the Suycott Valley Trail in Mission Trails Regional Park just before 7 p.m. Two Thursdays ago when he spotted a mountain lion in the brush about 5 feet off the trail. “Freaked the…
A video of a bottlenose dolphin named Fraggle carrying her dead calf through the waters of Western Australia has captured hearts worldwide, offering a rare glimpse into the emotional lives of marine mammals. View this post on Instagram The heartbreaking…