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Teen rides whale shark in open water

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:27:46 GMT

A 19-year old Florida teen doesn't think twice about jumping on a 30-foot, 50,000-pound whale shark in the Gulf of Mexico.

Curious koala gets comfy inside home

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:46:01 GMT

A curious koala in South Australia managed to walk into a house and make itself at home.

Black Japan watermelon sells for $3,200

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:43:18 GMT

Someone bought one of these for more than $3,000 at an auction in Japan.

Deer breaks through depot window

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:17:03 GMT

It was fun day out at Taste of Tippecanoe, and for some volunteers, it literally started off with a bang. "We were around the corner putting table cloths on the table and getting ready for opening it was about 3:15 and I heard this huge crash," said volunteer Paula Kwood.

Sacramento street seething with bats

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:17:30 GMT

A huge colony of bats has built a nest in a crack between the buildings. Experts say the concrete reminds them of being in a cave.

Student guide dog saves trainers' lives

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:34:47 GMT

A California dog training to become a seeing-eye animal got a real-life test when a car came barreling down a sidewalk.

Killer whale snatches halibut in Alaska

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:16:33 GMT

Watch the video to see what happens as they try to reel in a halibut: A killer whale comes right up to the boat and grabs it.

Dogs go crazy when they're first sour

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:28:02 GMT

The video, put up by tastesfullyoffensive on YouTube, shows dogs' reactions to tasting lemons, limes and oranges for the first time.

Squirrel leaves 3,200 Texans in dark

Jackie Vega — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:21:55 GMT

A squirrel is to blame after thousands are left without power Tuesday in Central Texas on a day where summer-like temperatures near 100 degrees.

Deputy finds Doritos bag on deers head

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:30:43 GMT

A deer in the Florida Keys is breathing more easily after a deputy removed a Doritos bag from its head.

Swedish train drivers protest uniforms

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:23:32 GMT

Commuters on a train line in northern Stockholm were met with an unusual sight this week: male train drivers and conductors wearing skirts to work.

'Mister Rogers' plays new musical role

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:14:40 GMT

Most of us know about PBS Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, but now the star of the show -- the friendliest neighbor around -- has a slightly different role in a YouTube video that's quickly gaining traction.

Baby elephant plays in sea for 1st time

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:05:41 GMT

A baby elephant in Thailand gets its first dip in the sea, loving it so much it dunked its head into the waves and even tipped over a time or two.

Woman rescues 200 sloths from forest

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:32:17 GMT

One woman from the South American country of Suriname acted fast to rescue about 200 very slow animals, finding the endangered sloths a temporary new home

Zoo looks for dogs to feed 5 lion cubs

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:29:54 GMT

A nest of quintuplet lion cubs in Ya'an of Southwest China's Sichuan Province in urgent need of dog nannies due to their mother's insufficient supply of milk now has a mother substitute.

Cody the dog sounds like screaming goat

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:49:37 GMT

Meet Cody the screaming dog, who sounds much like those screaming goats that swept the Internet months ago.

Man fights to keep his gargoyle friend

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:20:30 GMT

An artist in Northern Arizona finds himself in a fight with the county where he lives, all in an effort to keep his beastly 9-foot gargoyle friend around.

Fluffy bovines make Web go mad for cows

Jackie Vega — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:27:53 GMT

Because these beautiful bovines are primped and pampered to be so fluffy, the Web's going mad with the funny pictures of the fuzzy farm animals.

Man hunting for pythons finds jewelry

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:58:10 GMT

Mark Rubinstein didn't catch anything during Florida's official Burmese python hunt, but he didn't come back from the Everglades empty-handed, either.

White lion gives birth to rare 5 cubs

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:02:39 GMT

A white lion gave birth to five cubs on Friday in Southwest China's Ya'an City, which was hit by a 7-magnitude earthquake in April.

"Fishing church" reels in worshipers

Wed, 29 May 2013 14:52:55 GMT

By holding Sunday afternoon worship services at a 10-acre fishing lake, Wade Compton aims to draw people who might not venture into traditional houses of worship.

Twin giraffes born at Central TX ranch

Wed, 29 May 2013 14:46:53 GMT

The only set of living twin giraffes in the United States have brought twice the joy to visitors to the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch in Central Texas.

Massive Midwest tornado caught forming

Wed, 29 May 2013 12:01:03 GMT

Multiple tornadoes touched down across Kansas, on captured on video forming over Tescott and moved toward Bennington.

Storm chasers get wedged inside tornado

Tue, 28 May 2013 17:13:55 GMT

Video captures a glimpse inside a tornado after storm chasers in Smith County, Kan., ended up wedged inside one.

Record-breaking Romanian flag is 5 tons

Tue, 28 May 2013 17:04:18 GMT

The flag of Romania is 1,145 feet by 744 1/2 feet and weighs about 10,000 pounds.

Man,87, skydives for great-grandson

Sun, 26 May 2013 21:01:55 GMT

An 87-year-old World War II veteran has parachuted from a plane in an Ohio to support his ailing great-grandson.

Ga. man suspected of deodorant thefts

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:15:53 GMT

Police say a shoplifter in metro Atlanta had particularly sticky fingers for deodorant sticks, stealing 195 of them from a Target store.

Cat blamed for starting Ind. house fire

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:07:39 GMT

Authorities say a cat might have started a central Indiana house fire by knocking over a lamp.

Car uses tweets and social media to run

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:04:23 GMT

The car is an old-school Volkswagen Karmann Gia, but there's nothing old about the engineers-in-training who rebuilt it into an electric car and making it cruise like it never could back in 1967.

Goat snarls traffic in New Jersey

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:08:25 GMT

A goat believed to have escaped en route to a slaughterhouse snarled the morning commute along one of the busiest roadways in northern New Jersey on Tuesday, leading police on a nearly two-hour chase.