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It’s never really been a question of whether sharks can hear well. They can. But measuring how well is difficult. If hearing is somewhat subjective...
Humans have taken the mighty wolf and turned it into the pug, a dog so malformed it struggles to breathe. That, of course, is not our only attempt at...
Two birds in Brazil are, scientifically speaking, loud as heck, So loud that these relatively small birds rival the earsplitting obnoxiousness of...
According to a comprehensive analysis compiled by StudyFinds, at some point or another, a cat owner will have to choke down their disgust and thank...
Let’s get it out in the open early: Beaver Fever sounds like the title of a 1970s porn flick, but that’s not what it is. Beaver Fever is the...
Southern California’s alleged “serial butt sniffer” is heading back to jail and, all told, has been arrested more than 40 times for this very...
A newly discovered, massive lunar crater complicates plans to set up human colonies on the Moon. According to a study published in Science Advances,...
Anthropic, the company behind the AI chatbot Claude, is rushing to the aid of its poor, defenseless, glorified autofill. Like the AI’s proud mama,...
One of the few things AI and vibe coding have done that I find genuinely hysterical is quickly rendering meaningless, paywalled, highly restrictive...
As a night owl, I get the appeal of blowing past any suggested bedtime so you can work or play while everyone else sleeps. It’s great until you...
There’s science, and then there’s what we know from day-to-day observation, no scientific method needed. From personal experience, many of us can...
A newly discovered 45 million-year-old fossilized crocodile skull has been classified by paleontologists as a whole new kind of crocodile genus that...
“Is that 10 live birds in your pocket or are you happy to see me?” is not a line anyone involved in this story actually said, but it would’ve...
It’s extraordinarily depressing to hear about parents choosing to create AI school pictures of their kids rather than paying the relatively small...
Earlier this year, I wrote about the mysterious emergence of dozens of people from New York City manholes. Various security cameras caught the act,...
Chewing tobacco kills a whole lot of people around the world, but how it kills them is a little more surprising than you’d expect given the process...
It’s hard to tell what’s parody from genuine, hard-earned stupidity nowadays. When I hear a story about a health influencer who claims to have...
In May 2025, I wrote about a woman in Arizona who used AI to resurrect her brother (in a sense) to speak on his own behalf (in a weird, cryptic way)...
A 35-year-old man’s bloody urine turned out to have an explanation no one could have seen coming: sewing needles jammed into his body. According to...
Being a good TV show with a solid number of viewers isn’t good enough to keep a show alive anymore, not in the fickle streaming age. According to a...
Who knows where the future’s headed, but with AI suddenly rising to prominence, we may be on the brink of destroying everything. Or maybe things...
Some of the best keepers of the past’s weather events might be the brainless mollusks crawling through the dirt, occasionally getting crunched with...
They say money can’t buy happiness, but money strategically given to low-income parents might actually buy longevity. According to a landmark study...
I can’t help but think of the human lie detector test Larry David tried to use at various points throughout the run of Curb Your Enthusiasm. He’d...
Millennial nostalgia bait resources are running low. I half expect a full Doug reboot any day now. Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing, but...
When you think of zoos and aquariums as places where injured wild animals are rehabilitated, sometimes taught basic survival tactics, before being...
Braden Peters, aka Clavicular, the influencer who popularized the obnoxious terms looksmaxxing and mogging, has been charged with raping a 17-year-old...
Dengue fever, transmitted by mosquitoes, is spreading across the United States. Cases are particularly high in Florida, where 152 locally acquired...
You don’t often hear about sheep pox. According to Wikipedia, it’s “the most severe of all the animal pox diseases.” Luckily, it was...
Every once in a while in my job covering the news for VICE, I come across a new story about someone taking the pursuit of petty social vengeance too...
For as fun as it can be navigating New York City’s streets, it’s long had one major problem: not enough public toilets. The city aims to fix that...
If you have even a passing knowledge of ancient Egyptian royalty, you’ve probably heard of Tutankhamun, aka King Tut, the face of what may be the...
It’s not often that you see a seagull with a bamboo skewer rammed up its combination butthole/vagina, but such an event occurred this past August....
If a real-life, flesh-and-blood Hollywood actress suddenly started speaking an entirely different language mid-sentence during a TV interview, the...
As immortalized by Mean Girls, Halloween is the time of year when people use the costume-centric holiday as an excuse to dress as scantily as possible...
In July 2025, I wrote about how a former Google and Facebook marketing executive wanted to help people wean themselves off phone addiction and the...
Humans have been using a dog’s keen sense of smell to our advantage for thousands of years — whether it be hunting prey for dinner or having them...
Over 5,000 years ago, a royal named Meretneith was the big boss of ancient Egypt. She was long known as a major player during the First Dynasty, which...
Chihuahuas are weird, nervous little dudes who can be crushed by an errant step yet think they are as innately imposing as a Tyrannosaurus rex. Yet...
As tech billionaires try to sell us on the idea of human colonies on the moon and beyond, a new research paper published in Frontiers in Space...
The antidepressants that make you a stable, tolerable human being may be working wonders for you, but when you pee them out, they wind up in water...
A kid who got in way over his head with his gaming YouTube channel wound up spending $118,000 on ads using his dad’s corporate credit card. David...
When you’re scouting locations to hold Olympic events, there are probably dozens of factors to take into account. Can we fit some bleachers in here...
You’re probably used to jump-starting your day with a mug full of coffee, so the caffeine lying in wait within can provide you with the energy boost...
A new kind of cat just dropped, and it’s adorable. It’s smaller than a common house cat, yet looks as ferocious as a jungle cat. Researchers who...
If you’re living in a state of perpetual exhaustion, congrats! You’re part of the overwhelming majority of Americans—71.5 percent of adults...
There’s a new Street Fighter movie on the horizon. Based on the trailers and what little advertising I’ve seen of it, it looks like it’s going...
By now, it’s well publicized that Japan has a bit of an age discrepancy. The population is aging, and it isn’t getting steadily replaced by an...
There are some things in life so obviously inappropriate, so poorly worded, that the moment a specific set of words are crammed together to promote...
If you’ve been noticing people around the internet talking a bit more about how they’re constantly waking up at 3 AM no matter what they do, no...