Nine-year-old David Balogun is a certified class act. Balogun, who lives with his family in Pennsylvania, became one of the youngest-ever high school graduates — and he’s already finished a semester of community college. Read more: At 30 years old, meet the world’s oldest-ever dog, Bobi Read next: How inflation is tapping out a Montreal
Scientists from China’s Northwest A&F University, located just outside Xi’an, told local media that they successfully cloned three “super cows” capable of producing 50 per cent more milk than the average Canadian Holstein dairy cow. The researchers took tissue samples from Holstein cows that produced high volumes of milk and used the “somatic cell nuclear
A Japanese zoo believes they’ve finally solved the mystery of how their female gibbon became pregnant while living alone in her enclosure. The puzzle dates back to February 2021, when Momo, a 12-year-old white-handed gibbon at the Saikai National Park Kujukushima Zoo & Botanical Garden, shocked her keepers by giving birth.But how? Momo lived separately
Some lessons you have to learn the hard way. Such was the case for a Polish tourist in Mexico, who was confronted by a group of angry people after he decided to take off his shoes and climb the scared temple of Kukulkan last weekend.The incident happened at the Chichén Itzá archaeological site on Mexico’s
Roll over, Spike, there’s a new, much older dog still walking around the block. Only two weeks ago the Guinness World Records crowned Spike, a 23-year-old chihuahua mix from rural Ohio, as the oldest living dog. On Thursday, the record keeper announced a new champion has claimed both the title of oldest living dog and
A baby was abandoned at an airport check-in desk in Tel Aviv, Israel after his parents learned they had not purchased a plane ticket for the infant. The parents, who have not been publicly identified, were travelling on a Ryanair flight from Ben Gurion International Airport to Brussels, Belgium on Tuesday. The local news outlet Channel
Quebec’s furry forecaster, Fred la Marmotte, died before he was able to reveal his 2023 Groundhog Day prediction. The organizer of the Val-d’Espoir event, Roberto Blondin, made the tragic announcement in front of a crowd of awaiting spectators.“When I went to wake him last night he had no vital signs,” Blondin said. “He most likely died
For centuries the mystery surrounding Bigfoot has captured the imaginations of people across North America, but one data analyst now says there might be simple mathematical equation to explain the sightings. In a new preprint study published online in bioRxiv, data analyst Floe Foxon writes that many sightings of elusive Sasquatch-looking figures could actually be
A New Brunswick man has captured amazing bird’s-eye footage of the moment an antler rack came loose from a moose’s head and crashed to the ground. Woodsman Derek Burgoyne was surveying hardwood trees of Plaster Rock, N.B., earlier this month when he spotted three bull moose — two of which had already shed their antlers.
The makers of Fireball Cinnamon Whisky are facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly “misleading” customers, by selling mini bottles of “Fireball Cinnamon” that don’t actually contain any whisky in them. The beverage is made with malt or wine and flavoured to taste like whisky, according to Fireball’s website, and the mini bottles are sold in