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A family is shaken up, after a grandfather accidentally shoots his three-year-old granddaughter. Why He Was Shooting Standing outside his home in West Columbia, Texas Gary Van Ness said he was aiming his shotgun at a homeless cat, one of many that had recently been searching his neighborhood for food and shelter, when he fired […]
Israel’s Antiquities Authority says archaeologists have unearthed two 9,500-year-old figurines near Jerusalem that help shed light on religion and society during the stone age, drawing parallels with similar discoveries at Gobeklitepe, a Neolithic site in Turkey that produced the world’s oldest known man-made religious structure. Archaeologists unearthed the two rare figurines last week in Tel Motza […]
A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Costa Rica on Wednesday, rattling buildings, cutting power in areas of the capital and triggering a tsunami warning. The USGS said the 8:42 a.m. (10:42 a.m. EDT; 1442 GMT) quake struck about 38 miles (60 kilometers) from the town of Liberia. It was centered about 25 miles (41 kilometers) […]
An Arizona woman was stung with a whopping $83,046 medical bill after being attacked by a scorpion last June. Marcie Edmonds, 52, of Phoenix,got stung by a scorpion while opening a box of air-conditioner filters in her garage, according to AZcentral.com. A after her throat tightened, her vision blurred and she became unable to walk […]
Officials in Mississippi are struggling to figure out a way to clean up thousands of dead nutria rats that were washed ashore by Hurricane Isaac. Reporter Al Showers explains, it’s not just storm debris that people are cleaning up: approximately 5,000 dead nutria rats (a large river rodent) have washed ashore on the state’s beaches.
This famous feline may have different DNA on each side of her body. Venus the two-faced cat is currently the most famous feline on the planet. The three-year-old tortoiseshell has her own Facebook page and a YouTube video that’s been viewed over a million times, and appeared on the Today Showlast week. (Watch National Geographic cat videos.) One look at this […]
According to lion trainer Alexander Lacey, training a lion or a tiger begins with a simple rule: Keep out of the line of fire when the animals urinate. The rest is upto technique and safety concerns, as well as individualized for each cat. Alexander Lacey, the big cat trainer for theRingling Brothers And Barnum & Bailey Circus, was […]
A missing tour bus passenger in remote southern Iceland ended up joining her own search party last weekend without realizing the search teams were in fact looking for her, according to a report. According to the Iceland Review, which cited the website mbl.is (site in Icelandic), a bus driver in the volcanic canyon Eldgjá reported a foreign tourist missing […]
UNESCO’s World Heritage List of 2012 came with some unexpected but fascinating places for travelers around the world. Every year UNESCO names new cultural and natural wonders to its World Heritage List. UNESCO has 745 cultural, 188 natural and 29 mixed properties in 157 States Parties. As of March 2012 Before you plan your next trip take a […]
A Curious little koala swims to check out a canoe and climbs on in. A koala surprises a group of people in Australia by swimming across a river towards their canoe and climbing in it.