Odd & Unusual

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They couldn't see it, but they could hear it.

By ERALDO PERES and ELÉONORE HUGHES, Associated Press February 13, 2024
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Shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940, taking its captain with it, during a storm off Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

February 13, 2024
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One of the great interspecies love stories of our time has come to an end.

By ASHRAF KHALIL, Associated Press February 2, 2024
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Even by Alaska standards, there is a lot of snow this winter.

By MARK THIESSEN, Associated Press February 2, 2024
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A truck hauling zebras and camels for a series of weekend circus performances caught fire early Saturday on a northeastern Indiana highway, prompting a police rescue of the animals, which roamed along the freeway, some munching on grass.

January 28, 2024
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Researchers say a rhinoceros was impregnated through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that might later make it possible to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies.

By TOM ODULA, Associated Press January 26, 2024
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The aging reformed mobster who has admitted stealing a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in "The Wizard of Oz" gave into the temptation of "one last score" after an old mob associate led him to believe the famous shoes must be adorned with real jewels to justify their $1 million insured value.

By JOSH FUNK, Associated Press January 23, 2024
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Benito the giraffe has left Mexico's northern border and its extreme weather conditions and is headed for a conservation park in central Mexico, where the climate is more akin to his natural habitat and already a home to other giraffes.

By ALICIA FERNÁNDEZ, Associated Press January 22, 2024
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In what's become an annual winter tradition, hundreds of people carrying torches set fire to a giant wooden beetle effigy in Custer, South Dakota, to raise awareness of the destructive impact of the mountain pine beetle on forest land in the Black Hills.

January 21, 2024
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Logan Eschrich came to Buffalo to witness the snowstorm, and he stayed for the shoveling on Sunday.

By JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer January 15, 2024
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Brunei's Prince Abdul Mateen, one of Asia's most popular royal figures, has married his fiancee in an elaborate 10-day ceremony.

January 15, 2024
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An unlikely refugee from the war in Ukraine - a black bear - arrived at his new home in Scotland on Friday and quickly took to a meal of cucumbers and watermelon.

By BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press January 15, 2024
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The first person to spot it was a shovel operator working the overnight shift, eyeing a glint of white as he scooped up a giant mound of dirt and dropped it into a dump truck.

By JACK DURA, Associated Press January 7, 2024
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A breakthrough in a most unusual cold case could change a state law.

By SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press January 7, 2024
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With fangs that could pierce a human fingernail, the largest male specimen of the world's most venomous arachnid has found a new home at the Australian Reptile Park where it will help save lives after a member of the public discovered it by chance.

January 6, 2024

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