Weird News

HONOLULU (AP) -- Dozens of baby squid from Hawaii are in space for study.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A bison hybrid who roamed the woods in Connecticut for months after escaping on the way to the slaughterhouse has adjusted to life in a Florida animal sanctuary.

THORNTON, N.H. (AP) -- Surveillance video helped police get to the bottom of a series of vehicle break-ins in town of Thornton.

A Connecticut aquarium plans to auction off the chance to name three of its five recently arrived beluga whales to raise money for their care and to offset the cost of transporting them from Canada.

BERLIN (AP) -- German police appealed Friday for information about the possible owners of two 17th-century paintings discovered in a highway rest stop dumpster.

PLYMOUTH, England (AP) -- The Mayflower had a few false starts before its trailblazing sea voyage to America more than 400 years ago. Now, its artificial intelligence-powered namesake is having some glitches of its own.

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A small town in Florida accidentally sold its water tower in a blundered real estate transaction.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- The endangered Sumatran Titan arum, a giant foul-smelling blossom also known as the corpse flower, went into a rare, short bloom at a botanical garden in Warsaw, drawing crowds who waited for hours to see it.

CHICAGO (AP) -- A Chicago bus driver looking for a way to relieve stress during the coronavirus pandemic jumped into Lake Michigan for a 365th straight day on Saturday.

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) -- A commercial lobster diver who got caught in the mouth of a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod on Friday morning said he thought he was going to die.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- A pet dog who vanished for two days after being ejected from a vehicle during an accident has been found apparently doing the job it was bred to do -- herding sheep.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The top of the world got a sunrise special Thursday -- a "ring of fire" solar eclipse.

SPRING HILL, Fla. (AP) -- They say neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night will stop the U.S. Postal Service, but an alligator could get in the way.

BOSTON (AP) -- Archaeologists are giving a grassy hilltop overlooking iconic Plymouth Rock one last look before a historical park is built to commemorate the Pilgrims and the Indigenous people who once called it home.

WILLCOX, Ariz. (AP) -- A bear in Arizona emerged unscathed from quite the power trip when it became stuck on a utility pole.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities rescued a man who said he had been trapped for two days inside a large fan at a Northern California vineyard.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The cicadas were flying. The reporters hoping to join the president in Europe were not.

LUNENBURG, Mass. (AP) -- Wally the golden retriever did exactly what his breed is supposed to do during a recent swim in a Massachusetts lake, retrieving a small rodent and giving it a ride to shore on his back before ending the trip with a little kiss -- an interaction all caught on video by Wally's owner.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- The skeletons of two related Viking-era men, one who died in central Denmark and the other who was killed in England during a massacre ordered by a king, are set to be reunited for an exhibition opening in Copenhagen this month.

WELLS, Maine (AP) -- Scientists have determined that a black substance that had settled near the shore line over several days at a beach in Maine is made up of millions of dead bugs.