St. Louis Zoo officials are trying to solve the mystery of how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs without being around a male python for at least two decades.

A serval cat named Spartacus has run away from the home of its owner in Merrimack, New Hampshire, and is missing.

A drone carrying marijuana, cigarette lighters and cellphones got caught up in a net above a Mississippi prison fence, resulting in the arrest of two men.

Researchers at the John F.

Official says customs officers at a Florida airport found nearly a half-million dollars being smuggled out of the United States hidden inside furniture.

Authorities are searching for a tiger in East Tennessee.

People from San Francisco to Seattle woke up Wednesday to a massive clouds of smoke hanging in the air, darkening the skies in some areas to an eerie orange glow.

A voter bared her arms, and more, after she was told she couldn’t wear an anti-Trump shirt at a polling place and responded by whipping it off and doing her civic duty topless.

Summer has come to an abrupt halt in parts of the Rocky Mountains as temperatures reaching into the 90s have plunged by around 60 degrees in less than 24 hours.

A Georgia sheriff’s deputy delivering civil papers returned to her patrol vehicle to find an eager — and hungry — new driver.

The mayor of a Connecticut city says he will follow through on what was originally a tongue-in-cheek threat to name a sewage plant after comedian John Oliver if Oliver attends the plant’s naming ceremony.

An Austrian man has beat his own record for the longest full body contact with ice cubes.

Hundreds of fans attended a special kind of musical happening at a church in Germany.

An animal welfare group says that Kaavan the elephant, who has become a cause celebre for animal activists around the world, will be allowed to leave his Pakistani zoo and transferred to better conditions.

Police in Maryland investigating reports of a casket photographed bobbing up and down in a river discovered the object was something far less macabre.

A 16-year-old from New Hampshire successfully swam across the English Channel, completing a 33-mile-swim she called an, “adventure.”.

A new study shows that teenage male elephants aren’t as anti-social as once thought.

A Nebraska man is making political waves over his impassioned plea to take action against boneless chicken wings.

Police say it didn't take much legwork to track down a man who ran off with the tip jar at an eastern Pennsylvania pizza shop.

A curious dog got hold of a fiber optic cable that ran between two county buildings in Mississippi and chewed it to pieces.

German police say they are losing hope of finding out who left on a train a box of vials with hamster DNA that caused alarm in the southwestern town of Heidelberg last week.

The Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating reports from airline pilots that someone was flying in what appeared to be a jetpack as the planes approached Los Angeles International Airport for landings last weekend.

An Australian returned home and was surprised to discover that his kitchen ceiling had collapsed under the weight of two large pythons apparently fighting over a mate.

Comedian John Oliver has upped the stakes in a tongue-in-cheek spat with a Connecticut city, offering to donate $55,000 to charity if officials follow through on a joke to rename its sewage treatment plant after him.

One of three black bear cubs orphaned by the recent death of their famous mother has been captured and will be taken a rehabilitation center for the winter.

Wildlife rangers have trapped a 14 1/2-foot saltwater crocodile at a tourist destination in Australia’s Northern Territory, the biggest caught in the area in years.

A 3-year-old girl in Taiwan was reported safe after becoming caught in the strings of a kite and lifted several meters into the air.