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'This was a random person in the park who went out of their way to disfigure another human being,' he said. He added that there was no evidence of the attack on Wasielewski being 'part of a larger pattern,' while urging locals to take care of one another. The police chief also pushed back on unfounded rumors concerning the attack. 'We understand how quickly information, speculation and worry we can spread,' he said. 'That's why we're 100 percent committed to sharing verified updates as soon as we have them and not before. Accuracy matters.'

The California Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday to extend the ban on abalone harvesting in Northern California until 2036, citing the decline in red abalone populations and ongoing environmental challenges. This is the longest extension for this ban since the initial 2018 closure. "Monterey Abalone Company is one of only two abalone farms left on the California coast. The farm caters to a small number of walk-up clientele and white tablecloth restaurants, where a plate of two or three red abalone might go anywhere from $56 to $80 dollars. Today, farms offer the only legal way to eat Californian...

The video also showed the black student running back up to the stabbing victim after the attack screaming “white b*tch!” before he was stopped by another individual. Charges in the stabbing were pending after the incident.

You can learn an awful lot about human psychology by walking your dog. It’s where human and canine instincts collide in a daily tangle of projection and foibles. Take my oldest dog. She’s a mongrel with a keen nose for the weird and the wonderful, and she has always been a little… finely tuned. Given I’m about to tell you that you can learn a lot about an owner from a dog, I should stress that this is not always the case. My dogs’ good qualities are obviously down to me, or at least the fruits of my training, but...

"MACON COUNTY, Ga. (WGXA) — On Saturday, December 6, 2025, the Oglethorpe Police Department received a report from the Macon County Sheriff’s Office regarding a possible dog bite incident involving a victim being transported for medical care. DID YOU HEAR? | Peach County sheriff investigates video showing heated exchange between student and SRO Investigators determined that Raphael Woolfork was attacked by three pit bull dogs while walking on Chatham Street in Oglethorpe. A nearby citizen intervened and transported Woolfork to a location where Emergency Medical Services could assist him. While receiving medical treatment, Woolfork appeared to go into cardiac arrest...

Even Niazal's own lawyer Joshua Radcliffe called the phone footage 'genuinely horrific', adding: 'I have no doubt that if the general public were exposed to that, we would have disorder on our hands.' The asylum seekers were living in taxpayer-funded houses at the time of the attack, having arrived in the UK by small boats as unaccompanied children.

Pork might be cheap, fatty, and flavorful, but pig farming isn’t without its downsides. For starters, pigs are highly social creatures — capable of displaying distinct personality traits as well as emotions like stress and fear — and considered the fifth most intelligent animal in the world, demonstrating cognizance that rivals that of a three-year-old human child. The environmental impact of factory meat production is also astounding. Yet since the 19th century, we’ve bred, fattened, and harvested these sensitive creatures on an unprecedented scale. Now, a new startup named Mission Barns is looking for a way to change that: the...

A remarkable resistance to venom has been discovered in a frog that feasts on hornets despite their deadly stingers. This frog could potentially serve as a model organism for studies on mechanisms underlying venom tolerance. Image: Kobe University ecologist SUGIURA Shinji discovered that the black-spotted pond frog seems to be unharmed and undaunted by venomous stings from hornets such as the Asian giant hornet, the largest in the world. ============================================================== While just the sight of a hornet’s stinger is enough to fill many of us with dread, some animals, such as some birds, spiders and frogs, are known to prey...

An inebriated raccoon was taken into custody after allegedly breaking into a Virginia liquor store on Black Friday, partaking in what officials have deemed a "liquor-fueled rampage." A trail of smashed liquor bottles led police to the masked suspect, who was found passed out in the sploot position on the Ashland business's bathroom floor, according to Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter. In an embarrassing photo shared by authorities, the plastered procyonid could be seen lying next to a garbage can and toilet. The town later identified the four-legged intruder as "Cole," noting he may need a ride home after...

CLINTON, North Carolina; DUFUR, Oregon–– "Pit bull rescuer and longtime Village Dental Clinic dental assistant Barbara Hunter Brewington, 38, of Bonnetville, North Carolina, on November 23, 2025 became simultaneously the 75th person killed by dogs in the U.S. during 2025, tying the record 2024 toll, and the 58th U.S. pit bull fatality, breaking the 2023 U.S. record for deaths by pit bull..." " . . .As Kabir also mentioned, Brewington’s death was “the second fatal dog attack reported over five days in North Carolina,” following the unwitnessed November 18, 2025 pack attack death of Michael Bodenheimer outside his home in...

A contentious budget resolution the Austin City Council passed last month has changed how city veterinarians spay pregnant cats and dogs, allowing the city to perform abortions without a waiting period. The resolution from Council Member Krista Laine replaced a 2019 rule that required the Austin Animal Center to hold visibly pregnant animals for two business days before conducting surgery to ensure rescue groups had time to pick them up. That hold-and-notify requirement no longer applies after the passage of Laine’s resolution on Aug. 13, meaning the decision of when to operate is left up to animal center veterinarians. “We...

VIDEO AT LINK................. POWER STRUGGLE: A lineman successfully coaxed a bear off a utility pole in Arizona after it risked being electrocuted. The animal eventually dropped from the pole and ran off unharmed. pic.twitter.com/0OVUVIuciq— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 1, 2025

Cladosporium sphaerospermum, cultured at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre in Portugal. (Rui Tomé/Atlas of Mycology, used with permission) The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only moved in but survived, adapted, and appeared to thrive. Part of that may be the lack of humans… but for one organism, at least, the ionizing radiation lingering inside the reactor's surrounding structures may be an advantage. There, clinging to the interior walls of one of the most...

I am SERIOUSLY betting that our crime stats nationwide are ridiculously skewed against white people. They listed the Afghan would-be Texas car bomber as “white.” What a joke.

Seoul police were called to a cafe on November 16, when a cheeky parrot was caught drinking from a patron's coffee cup. The bird, which is believed to be a Yellow-headed Amazon, is an endangered parrot native to Central America. How it made its way to a coffee shop in South Korea remains a mystery, but one thing is for sure: that bird needs its coffee. The police who responded to the call said that the parrot was very friendly, no doubt perked up by its afternoon caffeine. The parrot even allowed customers at the cafe to feed and pet...

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died. Gramma was born in her native habitat and was estimated to be about 141 years old, zoo officials said. She died Nov. 20. It's not clear exactly when the tortoise arrived at the San Diego Zoo, but zoo officials said she came from the Bronx Zoo in either 1928 or 1931 as part of their first group of Galapagos tortoises. As the world changed around her, she delighted visitors...

Charging documents alleged that on November 11 and 12, Caines committed three similar attacks in the area, spitting directly into the faces of unsuspecting women at close range, according to The Post. 'It felt targeted, even though I don’t know who he is. For some reason, I was the chosen victim.

The next time you notice a pigeon acting suspiciously, you may need to notify the authorities, as news broke this week that Russia had launched a flock of remote-controlled cyborg spy pigeons. Putin scientists unveil 'spy pigeons fitted with brain implants and cameras that can be controlled like drones' https://t.co/t1lUBm1zAf— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) November 27, 2025This confirms what many had long feared: the pigeons cannot be trusted. As reported by the Daily Mail: A state-linked Moscow neurotechnology firm boasts its operators can steer flocks of the flying pests across the sky at will. Researchers have launched field tests of so-called...

Despite oodles of data on dog domestication, the exact origins of our feline friends have long remained fuzzy. We do know that pet cats retained many of their wild cat ancestors’ characteristics. This—perhaps not surprising many cat caretakers—makes pet cats technically “semidomesticated.” But scientists have squabbled over precisely where and when such changes came about. The feline timeline is especially tricky to pinpoint due to scarce archeological findings, along with the fact that the bones of wild cats and domesticated ones look quite similar. So far, researchers have encountered tantalizing clues, including depictions of cats as beloved, jewelry-wearing family members...

"All of you that supported our cause, it went beyond our wildest dreams"Björk has celebrated her 60th birthday by detailing how proceeds from a previous single have helped bring lawsuits against the Icelandic State. Two years ago, Björk teamed up with Rosalía and Sega Bodega on the track ‘Oral’, with all proceeds from the song being donated to support the legal fight against foreign-owned salmon farming in Iceland, brought by residents of Seyðisfjörður. When the song was released, Björk detailed legal action towards the Icelandic government to help combat fish farming. “We have a team of people from the biggest...