Archive for September 2025

Taiada Silvania is a unique cheese made by a single producer in Sao Paulo’s Caçapava municipality, who thought mixing milk with native leafcutter ants would be a great idea. Camila Almeida, the owner and founder of Estância Silvânia, came up with Taiada Silvania cheese while brainstorming ideas to attract tourists interested in rural attractions. She…

A Vietnamese man who hasn’t cut his fingernails in three decades earned a Guinness World Record when they were measured at a total 19 feet and 6 inches long.

A Michigan Lottery player from Wayne County bought a few tickets “on a whim” and ended up winning a $2 million top prize from the 100X scratch-off game.

Police in Berlin confirmed a wallaby — a marsupial resembling a small kangaroo — was spotted on the loose in the southwest area of the German capital.

New Zealand conservation group Forest & Bird announced this year’s winner of the annual Bird of the Year online poll: the kārearea New Zealand falcon.

Members of the Chicago Police Department’s Marine Unit came to the rescue of a pit bull terrier dog seen stranded in a Chicago River drainpipe near a bridge.

A binturong, an Asian animal also known as a bearcat, escaped from a zoo in England for a weekend adventure before returning to the facility on her own Monday.

Police in Virginia are asking members of the public to keep an eye out for a fugitive pig that “remains at large” in Charlottesville despite multiple sightings.

If you’ve been saving your fingernail clippings and need some quick money, you should consider selling them as traditional medicine ingredients in China. Fingernail clippings are usually discarded as disgusting pieces of trash, but according to Chinese traditional medicine, they are valuable ingredients in concoctions used to treat conditions like abdominal distension in children and…

Animal rescuers in New York said they captured a 4-foot ball python in a Queens park — but two more of the snakes are still on the loose in the area.