Bizarre

A bat interrupted a showing of 'The Batman'
10 March 2022

Live bat causes chaos at The Batman screening
A screening of 'The Batman' in Texas was interrupted by the release of a live bat. The showing of the new movie, which stars Robert Pattinson as the iconic superhero, at ...

Man who got a heart transplant for a genetically-modified pig dies
10 March 2022

Man given pig heart transplant dies
The first person to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig has died. David Bennett, who was suffering from terminal heart disease, survived for two months following the groundbreaking procedure. Bennett's ...

Joe Biden is the inspiration for the name of recently identified fossil
10 March 2022

Vampire squid fossil named after President Joe Biden.
A vampire squid fossil has been named after President Joe Biden. Scientists honoured the 46th President of the United States by naming the 328-million-year-old syllipsimopodi bideni, according to a study ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton's shipwreck has been located off
10 March 2022

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s shipwreck has been unearthed
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s shipwreck has been unearthed. The wreckage of the Endurance - which set off in 1915 - has been discovered just off the coast of Antarctica 3,008 metres ...

A squirrel attacked a Louisiana police officer
10 March 2022

A squirrel 'pounced on' a Louisiana sheriff’s deputy
A squirrel “pounced on” a Louisiana sheriff’s deputy. The Livingston Sheriff’s Office shared footage on social media of a traffic stop arrest where “things got squirrelly” after the animal - ...

Pepper got on the bus after getting seperated from her owners
10 March 2022

A border collie took the bus home by herself after getting separated from her owners in the park
A border collie took the bus home by herself after getting separated from her owners in the park. The pooch, named Pepper, was with Charlotte Jones, 25, and Saffron Caps, ...

Just one alcoholic drink can affect your brain
10 March 2022

One alcoholic drink a day could alter the structure of your brain, says study
Just one alcoholic drink a day could alter the structure of your brain. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered - after looking at 36,000 ...

Mice have raised the possibility of virgin births in humans
8 March 2022

Virgin birth breakthrough in mice
Women have moved closer to conceiving without men after scientists created the first virgin births in mammals. Chinese experts have carried out virgin births in mice to create offspring from an ...

Scientists have decoded the language of pigs
8 March 2022

Scientists figure out pig language using algorithm
Scientists have decoded the language of pigs. Experts have studied recordings of more than 7,000 grunts to work out their meaning and are able to match each sound to emotions such ...

Professor Brian Cox has claimed that aliens do not exist
8 March 2022

Professor Brian Cox rejects alien existence
Professor Brian Cox does not believe that aliens exist. The TV physicist claims that the existence of extraterrestrials is "unlikely" as there is little chance of sophisticated lifeforms evolving as humans ...

Catching coronavirus can cause changes to the brain
8 March 2022

Catching COVID-19 may cause changes to the brain
Catching COVID-19 can cause changes to the brain. A new study has revealed that scientists have found significant differences in MRI scans before and after infection. Even after a mild case of ...

A man spent three hours submerged in ice to break a world record
7 March 2022

Man spends three hours in ice to break world record
A man spent three hours in ice to break a Guinness World Record. Valerjan Romanovski spent three hours and 28 minutes with his body submerged in ice on a street in ...

A brain tumour made a man grow extremely tall
7 March 2022

Brain tumour made man extremely tall
A man became one of the UK's tallest men after suffering from a brain tumour. Andrew Smith, 60, grew to 7 foot 6 inches tall and went up four shoe sizes ...

Women can get away with bad jokes
7 March 2022

Women can get away with bad jokes more than men
Women can get away with telling bad jokes more than men. New research has found that males are under more pressure to tell funny jokes as they are given a hard ...

A woman in Hungary has fallen in love with a toy plane
7 March 2022

Woman in Hungary is in love with a toy plane
A woman in Hungary is in a relationship with a toy plane. The woman from Budapest, who has only been named as Sandra, claims that she shares a bed with the ...

A farmer in Hawaii thinks he's achieved a farming feat
4 March 2022

A farmer in Hawaii thinks he has grown the world’s biggest taro
A farmer in Hawaii may have grown the world’s biggest taro. Clarence Medeiros says his latest weighs in at a whopping 50 pounds after growing the vegetable - known locally ...

A town in Columbia displays dead bodies
4 March 2022

100-year-old 'natural mummies' are open for public display in Colombia
New photos of more than a dozen ‘natural mummies’ are on display in Colombia have been released. Some of the corpses - able for public viewing at a mausoleum in ...

A gull was impaled on a church roof in Massachusetts
4 March 2022

A gull saved after being impaled on a church roof
A gull was rescued after being impaled on a lightning rod on a church roof in Massachusetts. Firefighters successfully responded to calls of the bird being stuck after getting his ...

A cinema in Canada has been named the world's smallest
4 March 2022

A 13-seat movie theatre in Canada has been named the world’s smallest purpose built cinema
A 13-seat movie theatre in Canada has been named the world’s smallest. The Little Prince Micro-Cinema in Toronto has snagged the Guinness World Record for the smallest purpose-built picture house. ...

An 'alien' creature has been spotted in Sydney
3 March 2022

Frightening 'alien' creature spotted in Sydney street
A terrifying 'alien' creature has been found on the streets of Sydney. Harry Hayes went jogging in the Australian city on Monday (28.02.22) and spotted the bizarre creature on the road ...

A couple think their cat is the first to suffer from long COVID
3 March 2022

Couple claim their cat has suffered long COVID
A couple are convinced that their cat has suffered from long COVID. Catherine Watson and Gordon McKinnon explained how their feline named Bruce lost his sense of taste and smell after ...

NASA is hunting for life on Venus
3 March 2022

NASA hoping to find life on Venus
NASA is launching a mission to find life on Venus. Boffins are aiming to prove that aliens exist on the planet by analysing clouds and pinpointing microbes that exist in its ...

Man left horrified after spider bites his penis
3 March 2022

Man left terrified after black widow spider bites penis
A man was frightened that he would lose his penis after it was bitten by a black widow spider as he slept. Fergus Farrelly, a construction worker from Ireland, revealed that ...

Lottery Ticket
3 March 2022

Oblivious lottery winner dodged phone calls
A woman dodged phone calls for days before finding out she had won $70,000 on the lottery. The Australian woman, who has been trying to win the lottery for the past ...