Archive for July 2025

A giant baseball taken on a tour of Minor League Baseball stadiums across the United States broke a Guinness World Record by accumulating 6,750 signatures.

An alpaca living on a New Zealand farm was officially named the oldest member of his species in the world when he was confirmed to be 27 years and 185 days old.

Emergency responders teamed up with members of the public and animal rescuers in California to rescue a sea lion found loitering in the middle of a road.

Police in Colorado ended up in a hoof chase through a neighborhood where a pair of young goats escaped from their owner’s property in north Wheat Ridge.

The Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans, La., offered a first glimpse at its newest — and youngest — residents: a trio of newborn capybara pups.

A Maryland woman used the date of her father’s death to place a $1 bet on a Pick 5 lottery drawing and ended up winning $50,000 in the July 25 drawing.

A Georgia family’s puppy was given a new reason to dread bath time when her paw became stuck in the drain, requiring the assistance of Roswell firefighters.

Kentucky’s Pike County Animal Shelter shared video of an escape artist dog, appropriately named Chase, getting out of his kennel by climbing over the door.

Firefighters in Hampshire, England, had to dig a hole to rescue a calf found stranded about 50 feet into a 200-foot-long culvert pipe on its owner’s property.

Animal rescuers in Massachusetts said a 6-week-old kitten is recovering after being saved from a storm drain near an Interstate 95 on-ramp in Canton.