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A severe drought that dried up a Texas river exposed dinosaur tracks from 113 million years ago. CNN reports experts recently discovered the fossilized tracks in Dinosaur Valley State Park near Fort Worth, Texas. Scientists believe the tracks belong to the Acrocanthosaurus, a 15-foot tall creature that weighed about seven tons as an adult. “Most tracks that have recently been […]
A 19-foot boat is said to have been “in the right place at the wrong time” following a wild water-breaching whale incident caught in since-made-viral footage. As you’ve likely seen making the usual rounds in recent days, the footage in question—which shows vessels off the coast of Massachusetts in the Plymouth area, per a report from […]
An explosion at the Hoover Dam on Tuesday cued an emergency response from a group of Nevada firefighters. Footage of the incident circulating social media shows what appeared to be a fire in a building near the base of the dam, which is located in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between […]
A lake in southwest Iowa has been closed after a Missouri resident who recently swam there was infected with a brain-eating amoeba. The Iowa Department of Public Health shut down the beach at Lake of Three Fires State Park in Taylor County after the person was diagnosed with primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a rare brain infection that is usually fatal […]
Researchers believe the 13-foot-long, 661-pound stingray hooked in Cambodia earlier this month is the largest freshwater fish ever caught in the world, NBC News reports. The female stingray was caught on June 13 by 42-year-old fisherman Moul Thun near the remote island of Koh Preah on the Mekong River. According to CNN, a dozen people helped retrieve the stingray, […]
Cardi B was met with a surprise while on vacation this week. While kicking it with Offset during a Memorial Day weekend trip, Cardi spotted a yacht sinking into a body of water, and understandably, she took her phone out to document the moment. It remains unclear where the sinking boat was located. “What the fuck. […]
A jet ski accident in New York City on Saturday night left one man dead and one woman hospitalized. CBS News reports the couple rode their jet ski from Hoboken, New Jersey to New York City, crashing in the Hudson River around 7:20 p.m. near Battery Place and Vesey Street, just off the southern tip of Manhattan. Police said the […]
A boat carrying suspected migrants capsized off the coast of Puerto Rico on Thursday, resulting in nearly a dozen passenger deaths. The Coast Guard confirmed the incident on social media, just hours after the U.S. Customs and Border Protection spotted about 20 people surrounding the boat near the uninhabited island of Desecheo. According to the Miami Herald, at least […]
A woman died after apparently falling into the rapids at the Grand Canyon during a private boating trip last week, NBC News reports. National Park Service said the Grand Canyon National Park was made aware of an emergency by a personal beacon while the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report about CPR in progress Thursday […]
A group of volunteer divers who make YouTube videos on a channel called Adventures With Purpose might have cracked an 18-year-old case after discovering the body of a Pennsylvania man who went missing in December 2003. Amabile disappeared after calling his babysitter in 2003 and telling them he would be late picking up his two daughters. According to […]
