A woman said her rambunctious puppy caused her to lose control of her car and hit an off-duty Seattle police officer Tuesday afternoon as he directed traffic in Interbay.
The accident happened around construction near the Magnolia Bridge onramp.
The officer, 57, was taken to Harborview Medical Center, a police spokeswoman said. The officer, whose name was [...]
This seriously made me lol today.
In case you weren’t aware (and I know some of you out there aren’t, because I’ve had to explain it to a few friends before), the above image is called an lolcat. Here’s an article detailing the history of lolcats and lolspeak - the half-baby-talk, half-SMS-jargon language that typifies lolcats, [...]
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There is fresh hope for the world’s threatened panda population thanks to the latest digital technology.
A wireless internet network has been set up at the Wolong Nature Reserve in China - home to 20% of the remaining 1,500 giant pandas in the world.
The network allows staff to monitor the pandas’ every move and [...]
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The wanderings of a black bear for six days with a plastic food jar covering its head came to a deadly end in northern Minnesota, when authorities killed the hungry and thirsty animal in a town bustling with visitors.
The bear, a male about 2 years old, was shot by police in Frazee on Saturday night [...]
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For $4,050, you could buy four big screen TVs or two top of the line laptops — or a chicken?
Chicken at the grocery store sells for about $2 a pound, but a live chicken sold for $4,050 at the Racine County Fair Sunday livestock auction. Butch, the 10-pound rooster sold Sunday, cost $405 per pound.
“You [...]
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Researchers at Durham, the RSPB and Cambridge University have found that birds such as the Cirl Bunting and Dartford Warbler are becoming more common across a wide range of habitats in Britain as temperatures rise.
Unfortunately, some northern species, such as the Fieldfare and Redwing, are not faring quite so well and their numbers are falling.
Researchers [...]
British police were searching for a shark stolen from an aquatics shop over the weekend in southern England.
The female Australian marbled cat shark was one of a breeding pair kept in a converted garage in the back of a store owned by Peter Newman in Farnborough, about 20 miles west of London’s Heathrow Airport, police [...]
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Former TV game show host Bob Barker came on down Tuesday to lobby Chicago aldermen on a plan to require that the city’s dogs and cats be sterilized, but found his pet cause was far from a done deal.
Aldermen questioned whether an ordinance requiring that all cats and dogs be spayed or neutered by age [...]
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Penn State researchers have used computed tomography (CT) technology to virtually glue newly-discovered skull fragments of a rare extinct lemur back into its partial skull, which was discovered over a century ago. Alan Walker, Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology and Biology at Penn State, and Research Associate in Anthropology Timothy Ryan, led the research. The [...]
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Across Southern California, the 5.4 earthquake rattled furry nerves and ruffled feathers–literally.
“My birds felt it first,” reported one reader. “They were all fluffy and upset a few seconds before it happened.”
In Chino Hills, the epicenter of the quake, Alissa Sissung’s 10-year-old daughter, Delaney, was spending the day at a horse camp not far from her [...]
