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If you've ever wanted to live inside of a hunting video game, Ray Shinpaugh has done it. A video of him shooting 70 feral hogs in one night in North Texas has been blowing up on YouTube. Posted on Feb. 8, it's already attracted nearly 225,000 views. According to the video's description, Shinpaugh uses thermal optics in the nighttime hours to locate groups of hogs feeding in fields. He then moves quietly between the pigs and any adjacent woods before beginning the chase with a thermal monocular, laser, shotgun and 00 buck shot. Shinpaugh has perfected the art, and is...

Inside the bizarre 'Owl cafés' of Japan where you can pet a nocturnal bird of prey while eating your lunchChildren can play and pet the eight owls, while adults take photos with the birds that are often tied by their feet with a rope so that they don't fly awayOwls fluff up their feathers and preen beneath the stroking fingers of customers at Owl Village, one of many owl cafés that have popped up around Japan amid the nation's pet café boom. Here children can play and pet the eight owls, while adults take photos with the birds that are...

Twitter has been left in hysterics after a man shared before and after photos of his dog's trip to the groomers. In the pictures shared by Beau Braden from Vancouver, Washington, the family pooch can be seen with a white and fluffy head of fur before and a Mohawk after. Beau's dad Jody is normally responsible for taking their dog Cooper to have his groom but on his most recent trip he instructed the groomer to give him a 'new look'.

If there is one video that is sure to give you nightmares, then this is it. A man in Boston has filmed a rafter of turkeys circling a dead cat. Jonathan Davis uploaded the creepy video to Twitter on Friday and it's quickly gone viral.

There is a common litany of why airline flights are delayed or canceled ranging from equipment issues to weather, but a flight from San Francisco to London suffered a four-hour delay Wednesday when a mouse was spotted aboard the plane. The flight – British Airlines Flight 285 – finally departed at Heathrow 2:56 p.m. local time and was expected to finally arrive in San Francisco at 1:10 p.m. PST. The passengers were forced to change planes after the elusive mouse was spotted and finally departed after a four-hour delay. An airline official issued a tongue-in-cheek response in San Francisco when...

Elephants in zoos sleep for four to six hours a day, but in their natural surroundings the elephants rested for only two hours, mainly at night. "It seems like elephants only dream every three to four days. Given the well-known memory of the elephant this calls into question theories associating REM sleep with memory consolidation."

A dinosaur that lived 160 million years ago had drumstick-shaped legs much like living birds, according to palaeontologists. The feathered dinosaur also had bird-like arms similar to wings. Scientists used high-powered lasers to reveal invisible details of what the creature looked like.

FULL TITLE: Mother-of-two says she's been forced out of her home by a SNAKE infestation - but is stranded because landlords won't return her deposit A mother-of-two was forced out of her home by a snake infestation but is left stranded because her landlord won't return her deposit. Tonya Bell packed up her family from the house she was renting after finding a host of snakes inside the walls and throughout the home, earlier this month in Kansas City, Missouri. In less than a week, Bell claims she found eight snakes and said her two children didn't want to go...

Jim Sharpsteen started around sunrise. He was among half-dozen or so bird-loving volunteers who, over an 11-week span beginning last August, made the walk of shame around U.S. Bank Stadium. Their mission was to confirm the worst: To see if the stadium, with its 200,000 square feet of clear and reflective glass, is so indistinguishable to birds that the creatures crash into it like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Welcome to the avian killing fields.

Bird-watching can be frustrating – especially if you’re a cat. An internet video showing a feline apparently mumbling to itself while looking for birds through a window has gone viral on Monday. As of Monday afternoon, it had generated over 1.4 million views on YouTube. One can only wonder what the cat is saying.

"Our lives have been turned upside down and we're not sure what's next," one of the dog's owners saidA frantic couple in the South Bay has put their wedding on hold to blanket neighborhoods with yellow signs and pour thousands of dollars into the search for their beloved dog, who went missing on Feb. 13. Trendee King and James Galley, who recently moved to the Bay Area from Southern California, dropped off their black and tan Brussels Griffon pooch named Theo at a national dog sitting service located near Blossom Hill Road and Almaden Expressway. The next thing they knew,...

Aboriginal hunters from Arctic Canada have a couple of names for what they say is an extremely rare polar bear that is huge, narrow-bodied, fast-moving and lithe: "tiriarnaq" or "tigiaqpak," meaning "weasel bear." Now the thawing and rapidly eroding Chukchi Sea coastal permafrost has produced evidence that one of these legendary weasel bears — or some other strange kind of bear — roamed Arctic Alaska centuries ago. A huge, fully intact and unusually shaped polar bear skull emerged in 2014 from an eroding archaeological site about 13 miles southwest of Utqiaġvik (Barrow). It is one of the biggest polar bear...

A mystery sea creature has washed up on a Perth beach and left the internet baffled. Images of the slimy dead fish were posted online, with debate amongst social media users quickly developing as to what it could possibly be. The strange creature, which has a huge grey body and white belly, was found decomposing on the shore of Fremantle Beach, Western Australia.

Oksana Aulova didn’t think much of a gun-toting Brooklyn bandit’s brawn — or his brains. The feisty Aulova, barely 5 feet tall and 115 pounds, drove off the bigger, brutal assailant after a terrifying 40-second struggle inside a Brownsville medical supply store Friday afternoon. The showdown was captured on security cam video, showing the gutsy Aulova refusing to back down, even after her cowardly attacker slammed his beige work boot into her side.

Under French military supervision, four golden eagle chicks hatched last year atop drones - born into a world of terror and machines they would be bred to destroy. The eagles - named d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis - grew up with their nemeses. They chased drones through green grass that summer, pecking futilely at composite shells as seen in Sky News footage. They were rewarded with meat, which they ate off the backs of the drones. When the eagles were ready - this month - d'Artagnan launched screeching from a military control tower across a field, Agence France-Presse reported. The...

Never underestimate a tiger, no matter how fat. It's an enduring truth we'd all do well to remember — and one that attendants at a tiger enclosure at the Siberian Tiger Park in China's Heilongjiang province have learned all over again. They scrambled a flying drone to catch the attention of some of the, let's say, bigger big cats and get them some exercise. Trouble is, the tigers managed to track down the drone and bat it out of the air. Then, naturally, the Siberian tigers tried to eat it. Number Of Wild Tigers Increases For First Time In 100...

A daring teenage boy in Australia earned the nickname "snake boy" after pulling a large snake from the undercarriage of an SUV. Video uploaded to Facebook by Yogi McDougall from Queensland shows the teen Oli Wardrop pulling the lengthy snake from underneath the vehicle before leaving for school. The teen wrestles with to grab the snake by the head as it begins to slither its way up and into the vehicle while his father lay on the ground holding a hook and grabbing the snake by the tail. "I've got the head," Wardrop eventually proclaims. He then proceeded to pull...

Animal control officers in Maryland tracked down and captured a loose dog many residents believed to be a wolf. Prince George's County police shared photos which concerned several citizens due to its large size and wolf-like appearance. Police managed to track down and capture the animal at about 10:30 a.m. on Thursday and confirmed that it was a large dog. "It seems to be a mixed malamute/husky-type dog," Prince George's animal management Chief Rodney Taylor told WUSA. "He's definitely a dog." The dog was found without any kind of identification such as a chip or a collar and will be...

After researchers tagged the 6.5-foot-long male shark off the Maryland coast in the fall, Hypower circled offshore between New York and New Jersey, took a few loops around the North Atlantic, then made a beeline down the East Coast. The shark then trekked close to shore in North and Central Florida before heading to South Florida, where it swam down to the Keys and back toward the mainland. Nicknamed the “cheetahs of the seas,” makos can swim up to 60 mph. The sharks are known for making remarkably long treks — a young female named JiffyLube2 (for her sponsor) covered...

A woman who tried to claim compensation from Ronnie Scott’s after she fell down the stairs has lost her case. A judge told Eren Hussein, 52, that her weight, drunken state and carelesness in wearing high heels contributed to the fall. She was at the world-famous club in Soho in 2012 when she fell down a flight of stairs, round a corner and down a second flight breaking her wrist and elbow. Ms Hussein tried to claim thousands in damages, but the club was found not to have been responsible.