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A Houston woman discovered a giant African land snail in her garden—a slimy horror of a creature that is as disgusting as it is deadly.
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Unlock your doors, take off the foil hats, and stop worrying about the White House—everything science fiction movies have taught you about alien invasions is wrong. Except, of course, if the only thing you know about aliens is E.T., then everything you know is right: Aliens aren't going to plop down on Earth and blow us into smithereens, sciencee says a Finnish economist swears.
A Houston woman discovered a giant African land snail in her garden—a slimy horror of a creature that is as disgusting as it is deadly.
Two bills currently sit in the state's House of Representatives and Senate, both ready to enact harsh penalties on whomever might want to help you get high or sell you that purple alien-headed glass pipe you never knew you needed. Really, Florida?
Some 3,000 more decomposing pigs have been found in the river near Shanghai since Monday, bringing the number to about 6,000 dead hogs, but authorities claim that water is just fine.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense is denying the report that they've restarted their Cold War-era dolphin-training program and that three of their prized "killer" dolphins have escaped in search of sex.
Today in viral videos: a dancing grandmother does her thing, Sarah Silverman and Michael Cera launch a YouTube channel at SXSW, Girls gets awkward with Kanye, seals yell like humans, and more.
No one knows how over 2,800 rotting pigs got into Shanghai's Huangpu river, but we do know that it also happens to be a source of drinking water for the city's 23 million citizens.
Health officials in Los Angeles have issued a do-not-drink order on the water at Los Angeles's Cecil Hotel after a missing tourist was found dead inside the building's water tank.
Today in viral videos: Conan O'Brien goes there with the baby Clydesdale, a YOLO gone wrong, and the next Larry Bird.
This dog was surrendered to rabies control in Tennessee — entirely because his owner saw him mounting another male dog and thought the bulldog mix was homosexual. The dog was scheduled to be put down at 1 p.m. today ... until some sane people on Facebook got involved.
A pack of 10 monkeys went on a rampage in the town of Toddang Pulu in Sendenreng Rappang, Indonesia, on Tuesday. In their wake, they've left seven people injured—one critically—and one shaken village.
News out of North Korean is notoriously unreliable, but food shortages in the country have gotten so bad and people so desperate that there are now reports of men murdering their own children for food.
You'd think the safest place for animals is usually a zoo. That apparently isn't the case in China.
For the last six days the Brattli Tunnel in northern Norway has been closed. The culprit? A 27-ton truckload of a burning brown goat cheese called Brunost and the toxic gasses that emerge when you light the stuff on fire.
The heads were discovered on their way through customs at Chicago's O'Hare airport last night. But, somehow, authorities said no foul play was involved, and this sort of shipment has actually been uncovered before.
We're using past tense because, unfortunately, the snake did not make it to its final destination this morning.
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"Archaeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have recently reconfirmed a lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong, founder of the Koguryo Kingdom." reports the — wait. Stop. UNICORNS?
With the conflict in Gaza at a tenuous point, a Holocaust-denying Hungarian lawmaker thought the next logical thing to do would be to ask the government to draw up a list of Jews who pose a national security threat. Because, really, what could go wrong with that?
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Karen Huff Klein is a 68-year-old bus monitor in Greece, New York who reportedly makes about $15,000 per year to ride the school bus home with awful kids who bully her, and in a video that went viral, she was driven to tears. Today, the Internet showed it cares, and $27,395 (and counting) has been raised to send her on a vacation.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
A new study by 22 biologists and ecologists has found that environmental changes on our planet are reaching a point of no return that leads to mass extinctions and harms human welfare. The situation, said one scientist, “scares the hell out of me.”
Thanks to their network of oxycodone-dispensing pain clinics, Christopher and Jeffrey George amassed $40 million in cash in just over two years, and came close to avoiding a federal indictment despite their 56 overdosed customers.
In one of the more disturbing trends you'll hear out of Greece: More and more people are withdrawing their life savings from banks they think are unsafe ... only to see all that cash swiped in a spike in home burglaries.
Sorry in advance for ruining a lovely Friday morning. There's pretty disturbing news coming out of Thailand where authorities have arrested a man for smuggling six roasted human fetuses in his luggage.
In news that will make you want to shut the blinds, go back to bed until next week ... there's disturbing news out of South Korea that since August, officials have found over 17,000 pills filled with human flesh, in particular the placentas and ground up bodies of dead Chinese babies.
The mighty TSA had already taken down 7-year-old would-be terrorists with cerebral palsy and made at least one suspected al-Qaeda operative pump her own breast, so why not go after Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg's 79-year-old tiny mother-in-law?
Dad defends Mixed Martial Arts and his cage fighting child
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