Paul Rosolie offered himself up on a plate for the largest, heaviest snake in the world, a green anaconda, and attempted to ...
Giant huntsman spiders are the largest member of the huntsman spider family Sparassidae with a leg span stretching up to 12 inches across — roughly the size of a dinner plate. Huntsman spiders ...
With rich reds, gentle greens and basic blacks, Nature's screaming, crawling artwork is the epitome of rare beauty — at least in the eyes of some beholders. To others, it may seem just creepy.
A missing cat was found by an Amazon warehouse worker after the feline was accidentally shipped over 1,000 kilometres to California from Utah in an Amazon return box. Galena, a tortoise-shell cat ...
Just curious: This occasional feature in the Des Moines Register aims to answer your questions about Iowa. Is there some place, event, lore, history or cultural quirk you're just curious about?
India has unveiled the world’s largest snake that was longer than a large school bus and roamed the planet millions of years ago. Palaeontologists found 27 fossil vertebrae of Vasuki indicus in ...
You’d need a lot of mustard to cover this record-breaking hot dog! At 65 feet long, Times Square’s latest major public art installation, Hot Dog in the City, tops ...
About eight billion people live on planet Earth, a milestone that the United Nations estimated we passed on Nov. 15, 2022. It's a stark increase from the world population in 1950, which was 2.5 ...
The area surrounding Germany's Mewa Arena, the home of Bundesliga club Mainz, was evacuated after an active bomb from World War II was discovered on Wednesday during renovations to the stadium.
Everything is indeed larger in Texas. According to a map created by blog.batchgeo.com, more than 195 roadside attractions in the U.S. consider themselves the “world’s largest” something.