One of world's oldest captive giraffes dies in Texas
Twiga was a Masai giraffe, an endangered species whose population has declined by more than half in recent decades.
Jellyfish-like creatures that spit out waste found on Texas beaches
The floating jellyfish-like blobs with stinging tentacles have been described as "beautiful and wicked."
Zuckerberg launches Twitter rival – and takes a jab at Elon Musk
The Meta CEO tweeted at Musk as he says more than 10 million people signed up for his Twitter-rival app Threads within hours of its launch.
Western Japan river turns lime green
The Tatsuta River has long been mentioned in poetry and was often depicted in ancient Japanese art.
Massive seaweed blob that smells like rotten eggs suddenly shrinks
Researchers say the declining sargassum blob is "good news" for Florida residents, who for months have seen their beaches inundated with the stinky seaweed.
U.K. "Poison Garden" gets new plant that can cause months of pain
A mom of four who fell into the plant in Australia and had to be hospitalized for a week said the pain didn't "even come close" to childbirth and that she felt the pain even nine months later.
Live-action "Barney" will lean into adults' "millennial angst," producer says
A "Barney" producer hinted the live-action may be like film company A24's movies, which include "The Whale" and "Everything Everywhere All At Once."
Potential new octopus species discovered in rare nursery
The new octopus species may have been found in a rare brooding site that marks only the third octopus nursery known to exist in the world.
Video shows moment boy plummets 40 feet from zip line in Mexico
The young boy's sister wrote on Facebook that someone jumped into the lake to rescue her little brother — and that they both had to be rescued from nearly drowning.
Truck driver was on TikTok during crash that killed 5, officials say
The 36-year-old driver of the semi-truck was driving 68 mph in a 55 mph zone and was "actively using" TikTok when he hit two cars, wedging them between him and another commercial truck.
New Florida law allows roads made of toxic mining waste
Phosphogypsum is a material known by the EPA to contain a "potentially cancer-causing, radioactive gas," that's the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S.
Dolphins rescued after nearly 2 years of being stranded
Officials believe the mother and her calf became stranded in the Grand Isles pond system when Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana as a Category 4 storm in August 2021.
Microscopic Louis Vuitton knockoff bag sells for more than $63,000
"There are big handbags, normal handbags, and small handbags, but this is the final word in bag miniaturization," the creator of the micrometers-sized bag said.
How a silent robot fish could help ocean researchers
A robot fish named Belle could be the "spy on the marine life" that researchers have been looking for.
Is the "internet apocalypse" coming?
When a major solar storm hit in 1859, "telegraph systems worldwide went haywire." Here's what to know if such an event were to hit today – and how likely it is to happen.