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In an incident that belongs in Ripley's Believe It or Not!, a dog managed to fire a gun and hit a woman while it was inside a vehicle last week in Nebraska. As KNOP reported, Scottsbluff police officers were called to Short Stop at 2002 Avenue I in the city after receiving a report that a person had been shot by a BB gun at 12:07 p.m. They were later informed while driving to the gas station and convenience store that the incident involved a shotgun. When the police arrived, they were confronted with a shocking truth: the culprit responsible...

T. rex’s famously tiny arms may have been the result of one terrifying evolutionary upgrade: an enormous skull built for crushing prey. Credit: Shutterstock A new study suggests T. rex and other giant predators evolved tiny arms because their massive skulls took over as the primary hunting weapon. As their bites became more powerful, their forelimbs may have gradually faded into evolutionary leftovers. Why T. Rex and Other Giant Predators Evolved Tiny Arms The famously tiny arms of Tyrannosaurus rex may have evolved because these giant predators increasingly relied on massive skulls and powerful jaws to attack prey, according to...

At least 220 people are now suspected to have died from the ongoing Ebola outbreak, the head of the World Health Organization said Monday, according to the Reuters news agency. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that because of a delay in detecting cases, health workers were now "playing catch-up." The announcement came as Ugandan health authorities reported two new Ebola cases Monday, bringing the number of infections there to seven, after the number of suspected cases in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo surpassed 900. All the cases are linked to the Congo outbreak, which appears to have started several...

A North Carolina woman allegedly shot two lawyers handling a civil lawsuit she filed against police as they were leaving the courthouse. Gwendolyn White, 57, is charged with two counts of attempted murder after she allegedly shot two attorneys on Friday who were representing the Rolesville Police Department in a civil suit she filed, the News & Observer reports. The victims, Mary Harris and Jeffrey Whitley, were leaving the Wake County Courthouse when White allegedly shot them in an alleyway. First

A Chinese AI startup says it has cracked the code on what your dog is trying to tell you, and the internet is having a field day with it. The company behind PettiChat claims its wearable device can translate pet vocalizations and behavior into human language with up to 95 percent accuracy. That number went viral after Polymarket posted the claim to X. PettiChat describes itself as the “world’s first real-time pet translator” and is currently raising money on Kickstarter. The device is a small wearable that attaches to a pet’s collar and pairs with a smartphone app. According to...

As scientists study Earth's oceans, they come across some intriguing mysteries. Among them are some of the strangest deep-sea discoveries, including a "golden orb" measuring about 4 inches in diameter in the Gulf of Alaska in 2023. Referred to as a "yellow hat" by one of the videographers at the time, researchers were stumped about what it could be; coral, an egg casing, or a dead sponge attachment were some of the initial guesses. Since then, they've been able to determine that it's dead cell remains from a huge deep-sea anemone. The golden specimen was found about 2 miles beneath...

A duck in Massachusetts is recovering after rescuers` found an arrow lodged through its bill. Dig deeper: Steven Salowsky of Newhouse Wildlife Rescue said he was notified after a Salem resident spotted the duck, later named Horace, at a local pond. The following day, Salowsky and other rescuers responded to help the injured bird. The duck was taken to a clinic, where staff determined the wound was superficial. Rescuers were able to safely remove the arrow using lubricant, and no additional complications were found.

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said Wednesday he suspects the spreading Ebola outbreak in Africa will spread across three new countries and become a “very significant pandemic.” “I suspect this is going to become a very significant pandemic, probably going to leak into Tanzania, leak into southern Sudan, maybe leak into Rwanda,” Redfield said during an appearance on NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.” “So, it’s going to be very disruptive,” he added. A majority of the Ebola cases are in Congo and Uganda. Local health officials in the two nations reported 536 suspected cases, 105...

A live frog was discovered in a lettuce bag purchased from a grocery store in Australia. Farmer Rhys Smoker found the frog hopping inside an unopened lettuce bag bought from Woolworths in Esperance, Australia, on Saturday, May 16, while preparing a steak and salad dinner for his housemates, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Associated Press reported.

You can’t spell “graduation” without “gator.” A graduating McNeese State University student is shocking the internet with a senior photoshoot with a 14-foot alligator named Big Al — including one shot where she’s planting a smooch right on the gator’s snout, her face mere inches from its wide-open jaws. The photo is nuts — but not quite as nuts as it might seem. Kat Daley, 22, who helps run Gator Country in Beaumont, Texas, with her fiancé Eddie said she wasn’t frightened during the shoot — and that it wasn’t her first time being face-to-face with an alligator. “I really...

Two Americans were arrested in Japan on Monday after breaking into the enclosure of the beloved Punch the monkey, the 9-month-old internet sensation, police said. Police in the Tokyo suburb of Chiba detained Reid Jahnai Daysun, 24, and Neal Jabahri Duan, 27, after one of the men allegedly jumped the fence to enter the enclosure while the other filmed.

CBS News reported on Sunday that least six American citizens have been exposed to Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Three of them encountered a “high-risk contact or exposure” and one is displaying symptoms of illness. The CBS report was based on “sources with international aid organizations.” The sources said it was unclear if any of the Americans had been infected with Ebola. Even the symptomatic case might not be a confirmed infection, since Ebola shares early symptoms with other ailments, including muscle pains, skin rashes, fever, nosebleeds, and vomiting blood. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control...

Organ meats sit on the butcher’s shelf at a fraction of the price of premium steaks, yet most Americans walk right past them. Liver, heart, and kidneys deliver more vitamins and minerals per dollar than almost anything else in the grocery store, but cultural squeamishness and decades of convenience marketing have rendered them nearly invisible on American tables. Even as the Make America Healthy Again movement highlights these nutrient powerhouses, the rejection persists — a telling symptom of how far we have drifted from sensible, stewardship-minded eating. Beef liver, often called nature’s multivitamin, provides extraordinary levels of vitamin B12, vitamin...

Ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival, two albino buffaloes in Bangladesh that vaguely resemble two key world leaders, have become famous on social media. According to a report by The Independent, a 700kg pink-skinned buffalo, named after Donald Trump due to its striking resemblance to the US president, in particular has been drawing large crowds to a farm in Narayanganj near the capital Dhaka. “When I saw his pictures on Facebook, he looked exactly like Donald Trump," Prothom Alo newspaper quoted a visitor. “His facial structure and even hairstyle match that of Trump." “The buffalo is very calm and polite...

An Amtrak train hit a car in northeast Harris County, Texas, injuring an older driver and a boy around 10 or 12 years old (thought to be father and son). The car edged just past the lowered crossbars and paid no heed to the train's horn. The train was traveling at 60 mph and struck them. It seems from the news report that the conductor later found the vehicle in some sort of body of water. Here's the local authorities on Facebook: Somehow, the pair survived that. However, according to ABC13, The Amtrak train conductor tried to assist following the...

It’s unbaaaa-lievable. After a powerful tornado barreled through Enid, Okla., on April 23, the Sloat family was trapped beneath the earth in their storm shelter under tons of debris when they were suddenly rescued — by their two pet goats. “They saved us,” Adam Sloat, 53, told The Post. “No doubt about it.” The terrifying ordeal began when the approaching storm triggered a rare tornado emergency, the National Weather Service’s highest tornado warning. The bad news: a powerful EF-4 tornado — with winds reaching between 170-200 mph — was bearing down on the 50,000 residents of Enid at a few...

These monkeys don’t steal randomly. They target what humans value most. The scam works because the monkeys learned the difference between junk an an iPhone. At Uluwatu Temple, even the monkeys understand supply, demand, and ransom. BRIEFING Jett here. Tourists show up at a sacred temple in Bali expecting ocean views, ancient stone, and maybe a spiritual moment, and instead they get shaken down by a team of monkeys with the cold tactical mind of a legit street hustler. These aren’t random little gremlins grabbing whatever shiny thing they see. At Uluwatu Temple, the long-tailed macaques have figured out that...

Fearing mass firings, scientists made a desperate choice that could have lasting repercussionsIt takes a village to preserve the world’s most endangered species, and last year, the team tasked with protecting the Devils Hole pupfish — a critically endangered fish found only in a single pool called Devils Hole in Death Valley National Park — faced an agonizing decision. That March, the number of pupfish had cratered to just 20 individuals, such that the species was facing imminent extinction. At the same time, staff at federal agencies were being laid off en masse by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency...

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North Korea has formally amended its constitution to mandate an automatic nuclear strike if leader Kim Jong Un is killed or the regime’s command structure comes under attack. This chilling “dead hand” policy, enacted in the shadow of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s assassination by U.S.-Israeli strikes, reveals the regime’s paranoia and the inescapable logic of deterrence in a world of tyrants.