Archive for January 2024

Marine researchers in California said a newborn great white shark was caught on camera in the wild for the first time.

Firefighters and sheriff’s deputies in California came to the rescue of three dogs found stranded in a canal with steep walls.

A Florida reptile park announced its extremely rare white alligator baby has a new name: Mystic.

An Arizona man out kayaking and diving with his family in the Salt River found a wallet lost in the water in 1995 and was able to return it to its owner.

A thief stole seven king cakes — about as many as he could carry — during a break-in last week

A 58-year-old man has become the bane of restauranteurs in the Dutch city of Delft after eating without paying at least 127 times in the last few years. Earlier this month, police in Delft were called at a restaurant where a man was allegedly trying to skip out on the bill by faking a medical…

A Japanese monkey escaped from a zoo in Scotland and has been spotted raiding gardens in a nearby village.

Visitors to a Japanese zoo were treated to an unusual spectacle as a person in a bear costume led zoo workers on a chase through the park to simulate a real animal escape.

A Belarussian self-taught artist single-handedly built a functional ice boat that can hold at least one person and can be sailed. Minsk-based Ivan Karpitsky’s passion for ice and snow sculpting is well-known in his home country. His name first appeared in Belarussian newspapers in 2020, when photos of his ice violin first went viral on…

A Chinese marathon runner famous for chain-smoking during official running competitions has been banned by the athletic federation for two years for his “uncivilized” behavior. Chen Mouxian, aka ‘Uncle Chen’, first made international headlines in 2022, when photos of him running in the Xin’anjiang Marathon went viral on social media. What drew people’s attention to…