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An hours-long standoff in Ukraine centered on an armed man who had taken 13 hostages came to a close after President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly endorsed a Joaquin Phoenix-narrated movie. The individual in question, identified in a Reuters report as 44-year-old Maksym Kryvosh, took 13 people hostage on a bus in western Ukraine and said he […]
Conservationists and animal lovers were flabbergasted over the weekend thanks to one soft yellow turtle spotted strolling around eastern India. According to CNN, farmer Basudev Mahapatra found the turtle while working on Sunday in Odisha, India. Mahapatra later handed the turtle over to forest officials, who contacted conservation experts for assistance. According to experts, the turtle’s yellow […]
Moments after being attacked by a shark while swimming off the coast of Australia’s Fitzroy Island, Anika Craney was captured on camera after being airlifted to Cairns Hospital in Queensland, shouting, “I still love sharks, sharks are beautiful!” “There were doctors on scene at Fitzroy Island and they provided first aid…[Craney] ended up with a possible fracture of the […]
Mike Tyson is ready to fight again. But instead of a fellow boxer, the former heavyweight champion will take on one of the most feared predators in the world. On Wednesday, Discovery Channel revealed that it’s very popular Shark Week will be highlighted by a showdown between Mike Tyson and a Great White Shark. Tyson Vs. Jaws: […]
Over 360 elephants have been found dead across Botswana since the beginning of May, and conservationists have yet to figure out what is causing their deaths. Botswana is home to more African elephants than any other country on the continent, and director of conservation at U.K.-based charity National Park Rescue Dr. Niall McCann told the BBC the way in which the elephants […]
Flying Snakes are apparently a thing, and no we’re not talking about Snakes on a Plane. On Monday, scientists from Virginia Tech published new research that took a deeper look into Chrysopelea paradisi or the paradise tree snake. As CNN points out, this snake is known for propelling itself through the trees of South and […]
As a result of the continued destruction of their habitat, which was only hastened by the 2019-20 bushfires that devastated Australia, koalas could be in danger of going extinct in the state of New South Wales in the near future, according to a year-long parliamentary inquiry. This report, put out on Tuesday, reckons that the animals could die […]
According to a new study published on Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a strain of flu that’s been found in pigs in China could have the ability to leap to humans and cause another pandemic. As such, researchers behind that study say the situation has to be closely monitored. […]
Adult film star Nacho Vidal was arrested in Spain last week, and charged with suspicion of manslaughter following an 11-month investigation into the death of fashion photographer Jose Luis Abad in July 2019, Yahoo! Finance reports. “The police operation began following the victim’s death during the celebration of a mystic ritual based on the inhalation of venom […]
An Australian zookeeper was critically injured Friday after she was mauled by two lions, CBS News reports. Emergency services were called to Shoalhaven Zoo near Sydney on Friday morning. When they arrived, they found an unnamed 35-year-old woman with severe injuries to her head and neck. The employee was airlifted from the zoo to a nearby hospital where she […]
