WEIRD NEWS

Boston's famous Skinny House is on the market for $1.2 million.

Nearly 50 years after skyjacker D.

Help wanted: NASA is looking for people to spend a year pretending they are isolated on Mars.

A sumo wrestler that may have spooked the horses was knocked out of the Olympic equestrian ring, but the course designer is defending his decision to include the lifelike fighter in the first place.

Riders say a life-size sumo wrestler positioned next to an obstacle on the Olympic equestrian course may have distracted several horses in qualifying for the individual jumping final.

Scientists have a new idea for how Earth got its oxygen: It’s because the planet slowed down and days got longer.

A woman who secretly swapped seven pebbles for 4.2 million pounds ($5.7 million) worth of diamonds has been sent to prison for her role in the audacious heist at a luxury jewelry store in London.

London’s latest tourist attraction aimed for the heights.

The Olympic men’s triathlon needed a do-over with a restart when dozens of competitors went into the water while others were blocked by a boat containing cameras that got in the way.

An escaped bull has eluded capture for several days on Long Island despite attempts to lure the roaming animal with grain and a cow in heat.

Sulfur-crested cockatoos in Sydney have learned to open trash bins — and the technique is catching on like a hot dance move.

An Indonesian man with the coronavirus has boarded a domestic flight disguised as his wife, wearing a niqab covering his face and carrying fake IDs and a negative PCR test result.

The world's tallest horse has died in Wisconsin.

A San Francisco Bay Area zoo is inoculating its big cats, bears and ferrets against the coronavirus.

An exit off Interstate 95 in Florida had to be closed for three hours after 100 homing pigeons fell off a truck and refused to move, posing a driving hazard to motorists.

A man says he sprayed trees in a suburban Chicago park to protect them after an anxious dog chewed off the bark.

Police have fined two men who had to be rescued from an Australian forest after they were startled by a deer while nude sunbathing on a beach and became lost.

Fred Flintstone fought the law — and he won.

The Mayflower had a few false starts before its trailblazing sea voyage to America more than 400 years ago.

Scientists have calculated that the coelacanth, a giant weird fish from the time of dinosaurs, can live to be 100 years old.

The endangered Sumatran Titan arum, a giant foul-smelling blossom also known as the corpse flower, has gone into a rare, quick bloom at a botanical garden in Warsaw.

A Chicago bus driver looking for a way to relieve stress during the coronavirus pandemic has jumped into Lake Michigan for a 365th straight day.

The top of the world got a sunrise special _ a “ring of fire” solar eclipse.

Archaeologists are excavating a grassy hilltop overlooking iconic Plymouth Rock one last time before a historical park is built on the site.