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A young ginger cat who was swept out to sea by the tide is safely back on shore, thanks to the surprised crew of a charter boat who hauled him in.

We can all use a laugh about now, and these few early entries are just a tease to what's coming to the 2020 Comedy Pet Photography Awards - accepting entries until August 31, 2020!

A statue of Lenin in Magadan, Russia looks as clean and fresh as the well-preserved Marxist himself thanks to a set of metal spikes right out of a Clive Barker horror flick.

What's a fruit-loving jumbo to do when lured by the pungent aroma of jumbo fruit? Break into the store, that's what, and then come back for more 'cuz DURIAN!

Students at an Indian university got an unusual reprieve from upcoming exams when a large leopard was spotted roaming about the campus.

McDonalds Singapore is no longer the bee's knees for a drive-thru customer whose order of fries included a crispy deep-fried bee.

The Bali Safari Park zoo has named it's newborn giraffe 'Corona', presumably because giraffes have long necks and COVID-19 is a respiratory virus.

Sometimes it is the footnotes in history that are the most curious and interesting. This is true with the case of the parachuting live sheep. This tidbit of history occurred during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War which took place between 1932 and 1936 in northeast Ethiopia. The area was the Danakil Desert, which was dubbed "the cruelest place on Earth" by National Geographic. It was also most likely one of the largest grocery deliveries ever.