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A 36-year-old model was seriously injured by a leopard on Tuesday during a photoshoot in Germany. The woman – identified as Jessica Leidolph by local news outlet Bild – had entered the enclosure of two leopards at an animal shelter in eastern Germany. The owner of the property reportedly runs a retirement home for show […]

Elon Musk posted two laughing emojis in response to a meme claiming Blue Origin copied SpaceX while designing its vertical landing spacecraft. On Tuesday, Ars Technica published photographs of Blue Origin’s first stainless steel tank, which is part of the company’s efforts to develop a fully reusable upper stage for its New Glenn rocket. This […]

An 80-pound cougar was removed from a New York City apartment where she was being kept illegally as a pet, animal welfare officials said Monday. The owner of the 11-month-old female cougar surrendered the animal on Thursday, Kelly Donithan, director of animal disaster response for the Humane Society of the United States, said in a […]

Spotted in a car at a McDonald’s drive-through in Wisconsin: A cow — all of it. Jessica Nelson of Mosinee pulled into the drive-through at a McDonald’s in Marshfield on Thursday and said she looked up to see a cow in the backseat of a Buick sedan three cars ahead of her. “I thought it […]

A North Carolina couple split a nearly $1 million lottery jackpot thanks to two identical tickets, a sudden windfall the pair say they will put to good use. The North Carolina Education Lottery says Luther Cannon bought two tickets for Sunday’s Cash 5 jackpot at a convenience store in Rocky Mount. He punched in his […]

An Australian farmer couldn’t go to his aunt’s funeral because of pandemic restrictions so he paid his respects with a novel alternative: dozens of sheep arranged in the shape of a love heart. Drone-shot video of pregnant ewes munching barley in a paddock while unwittingly expressing Ben Jackson’s affection for his beloved Auntie Deb was […]

A truck hauling bee hives crashed and overturned along a northern Michigan roadway, unleashing a big swarm of bees, police said. The truck overturned about 2 p.m. Wednesday and dumped its load of bee boxes along a Charlevoix County road, prompting police to urge residents to keep windows and doors closed. “There was a very […]