Gracie the Giraffe has finally been found in Texas.

A viral sensation from this World Cup, Merlín the duck was at Mexico City's stadium before the national team's match against the Czech Republic.

An escaped giraffe has managed to stay a few steps ahead of a private ranch owner and local officials in Texas Hill Country for nearly two weeks.

Merlín the duck, Mexico’s unofficial World Cup mascot, stole the spotlight at President Claudia Sheinbaum’s news briefing.

World Cup tickets, flights and hotel rooms are expensive.

As World Cup fever grips Mexico City, an unlikely star has emerged.

Brazilian fans visiting Philadelphia for the World Cup are avoiding dressing the Rocky statue in their team colors.

Julián Quiñones and Raúl Jiménez may have scored for Mexico, but Merlin the duck stole the show.

New UFO files have been released by the Trump administration that include several vivid descriptions of mysterious sightings in the sky.

A New York man has gone viral for a prediction he made in his high school yearbook six years ago that the New York Knicks would win an NBA title in 2026.

A certain dam-building rodent is taking center stage in a World Cup-themed contest in Toronto.

Australian officials say they confiscated more than 100,000 illegal live cockroaches from a breeder in May in the country's largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates.

A former urban explorer says the most unpleasant part of exploring New York City’s sewer system was the cockroaches, not the rats, smells or ever-present dangers.

The group leading the charge in the search for extraterrestrial life has given the all clear.

A rare albino buffalo named after U.S. President Donald Trump for his distinctive blond tuft is drawing crowds at a Bangladesh zoo.

A series of bizarre sightings of people popping in and out of New York’s vast, subterranean sewer system in recent days has the whole city wondering what exactly is going on.

Thousands of people in New Zealand have attended one of the world’s best-known steampunk festivals.

American midfielder Brenden Aaronson had a good excuse to miss the U.S. World Cup team’s training session Friday.

New York City residents and visitors are treated to a phenomenon twice a year known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.

Bryce Harper's unique toothbrushing technique has sparked a viral sensation.

A study details a surprising new way into how pigeons find their way home.

Yuri the dog from the Chilean movie “La Perra” has won the coveted Palm Dog award in Cannes.

Dozens of soon-to-be graduates of a Michigan high school eschewed their cars and trucks and arrived in tractors, ATVs, golf carts and more.

A calendar featuring close-ups of young, handsome priests has been a popular Rome souvenir for two decades.

An Australian farmer has found a live frog in a bag of lettuce.

St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol believes in the “no shirt, no problem,” mantra.

Someone paid more than $9 million to have lunch with basketball player Stephen Curry and Warren Buffett, and the legendary investor also promised to match the winning bid so both their favorite charities will benefit.

A museum in Illinois is wondering how it got a speeding ticket for its replica of the car in the TV show “Knight Rider” that hasn't moved from its display in years.

Two South Florida police officers claim Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s recent action thriller “The Rip” used too many real-life details in its fictionalized narrative, causing harm to the officers’ personal and professional reputations.

Miners in Myanmar have discovered a massive ruby, considered to be the second-largest by weight ever found in the country.

Storm chaser Ashton Lemley was helping search through a Mississippi trailer park destroyed by tornadoes when he heard a kitten meowing from the rubble.

People in Colorado and Wyoming are getting out their snow shovels as a late-spring storm could bring Denver’s biggest snowfall of the season.

The radio station WKRP isn't dead, and it's now live on air in Cincinnati.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will soon light the sky with debris from Halley’s comet.

Evidently, the alarm system at Orlando’s Kia Center did not want to hear any talk about the Magic potentially going to a Game 7 against the Detroit Pistons.

New Zealanders are working to bring the kiwi back to the hills around Wellington.

A massive sea lion nicknamed Chonkers is charming tourists and locals at San Francisco's Pier 39.

Albany residents love Nipper, a giant dog statue perched atop a warehouse for nearly seven decades.

A French teen faces charges in Singapore after posting a video of himself licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine and putting it back.

If you can't visit the original Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, you might find a dead ringer nearby.

A Mexican man in the United States has pleaded guilty to impersonating a Border Patrol agent and following federal immigration officers to divert them while they were out on immigration enforcement missions in Southern California.

Two paramedics helped deliver a baby girl on a Delta flight as it landed in Portland, Oregon.

A Cape Cod seafood company has donated a rare two-colored lobster to a science center, sparing the critter from the kettle because of its remarkable coloration.

A sheep at Clover & Bee Farm in Underhill, Vermont, gave birth to a rare batch of six lambs earlier this month.

The Palm Beach Zoo in Florida has two reasons to celebrate.

Seattle Mariners starter Logan Gilbert can thank his jersey for stopping at least one earned run Wednesday.

Soccer fans in Argentina's capital city Buenos Aires can no longer throw confetti from the stands.

Two friends have claimed a bizarre record by driving a decades-old British three-wheel car about 14,000 miles from the U.K. to the southern tip of Africa for the longest trip by a three-wheel vehicle.

Three people in California have been sentenced for insurance fraud involving a person in a bear costume damaging high-end cars.

About 1 million bees temporarily took over an interstate exit ramp in East Tennessee after a beekeepers’ truck crashed and set them loose.

A suspected purse snatcher was rounded up after being chased through the streets of Manhattan by a mounted New York police office and his horse.

Two male runners in South Africa who were discovered fraudulently competing on behalf of female colleagues in a top marathon have been disqualified.

In September 1963, before Beatlemania, George Harrison visited his sister in the southern Illinois town of Benton.

Yuji, a 6-week-old patas monkey, wakes up every day clinging to a stuffed dog.

Germans are preparing a rescue operation for a sick humpback whale stranded off the Baltic Sea coast.

Crowds gathered at Mount Holyoke College’s Talcott Greenhouse to witness the rare bloom of “Pangy,” a corpse flower known for its powerful odor resembling decaying flesh.

They're called meat raffles, and they're a tradition in a few pockets of the U.S. They're featured mainly at neighborhood bars or at American Legion or VFW posts in Minnesota, Wisconsin and New York state.

A Parisian art enthusiast has won a Pablo Picasso painting with a $117 raffle ticket.

The world’s oldest gorilla living in captivity has celebrated her 69th birthday.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has dismissed rumors about his health by doing jumping jacks and jogging outside his office.

In Havana, a special underwater bus has become essential as Cuba faces its worst energy crisis in decades.

A statue has been unveiled of Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki at the Seattle Mariners' T-Mobile Park.

A Buffalo-area man has given up his legal battle to reclaim his seized alligator, Albert.

Xander Schauffele’s tee shot on the par-5 eighth hole at Augusta National came to rest in somebody’s merchandise bag.

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus is actually a nautilus relative.

American woodcocks continue to attract onlookers in a New York City park.

In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal will no longer print its rival the Las Vegas Sun for the first time in decades, sharpening a longtime legal dispute between the southern Nevada newspapers.

A late winter rainstorm that lashed southern Greece over the last 24 hours turned the sky a surreal red, felled trees and resulted in the death of one man.

Reports of the death of Jonathan, the world’s oldest living land animal, have been greatly exaggerated.

A lost border collie has been rescued alive after her owner fell from a tall waterfall in New Zealand bush.

A veteran South African politician is campaigning for mayor of Johannesburg by snorkeling in a giant, water-filled trench.

Sugar The Surfing Dog, the first canine inducted into the Surfer’s Hall of Fame, has died.

Chesney the kangaroo jumped an eight-foot fence to escape his petting zoo in Wisconsin, spending three days on the lam.

One hardcore England fan hopes to sell a house to fund his World Cup trip this summer.

Travelers passing through Philadelphia International Airport may have expected long security lines, but the longest line was made of cheesesteaks.

It might seem impossible to get away from the constant barrage of news these days.

Manchester City and Norway striker Erling Haaland wants to bring new audiences to chess after becoming a strategic investor in a world championship tour scheduled to launch next year.

On shelves crammed with cuddly toy native animals in an Australian airport gift shop, one fluffy possum stood out because its brown eyes were moving.

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare has sued a patient who refuses to leave a hospital room, even though doctors discharged her more than five months ago.

Two Massachusetts brothers have built a fleet of miniature Irish pubs on wheels.

The state of Oregon may soon have some new public property: A spectacular waterfall, beloved by generations, that was recently put up for sale on Redfin.

This stowaway truly was sly as a fox.

King penguins are adapting to climate change in a way that seems to help them breed successfully, which is unusual.

Awards season has a way of diminishing the movie year into a handful of films that are talked about ad nauseam for months.

Traditional reindeer racing has drawn an international crowd to the town of Salla in northern Finland.

About two dozen couples have taken part in the U.K. Wife Carrying Race, one of the country's quirkiest annual sports events.

Police in New Zealand say a knapsack left in a donation area at a charity shop contained marijuana and more than $2,000 in cash.

A Spanish soccer team is asking Madonna for help in finding the club shirt she wore on stage during a concert in 1990.

Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys.

An independent researcher has asserted that a marble bust of Christ in a Roman church is by Michelangelo.

Florida coach Jon Sumrall has a new appreciation for the gator chomp.

A crocodile has been caught in an Australian creek on the temperate east coast far from the species' tropical habitat.

The Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers were delayed for 18 minutes in the third quarter by a blaring horn Friday night after a power surge caused the overhead scoreboard to malfunction.

Officials in Florida say an injured mother manatee and her calf have been rescued from a river and taken to SeaWorld Orlando for rehabilitation.

Argentine teens are gathering in Buenos Aires parks to dress and act like non-human animals.

The Atlanta Hawks are turning a home game into a tribute to Magic City, the city’s famous adult entertainment club.

A woman on probation for stowing away on an international flight has been arrested again after sneaking onto a flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Milan, Italy, A law enforcement official familiar with the matter said Thursday that Svetlana Dali was taken into custody Thursday at Milan’s Malpensa Airport.

A toucan seen flying around the Las Vegas desert has been captured by a bird rescue group.

A Massachusetts couple who were targeted in a harassment campaign by former eBay employees have reached a settlement in a lawsuit against the company.