An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally is back in the Atlantic Ocean, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle hospital.

Visitors to historic sites in North Dakota will soon have flush toilets available.

Police investigating the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann from a Portuguese holiday resort in 2007 are to conduct fresh searches in the area.

About 250 million honeybees took to the skies when a commercial truck carrying them overturned in Washington state near the Canadian border.

An Alaska man escaped unscathed after being trapped by a 700-pound boulder for three hours during a hike in a remote area last weekend.

Videos featuring emotional moments with hyper-realistic baby dolls have sparked both online fascination and political debate in Brazil, with lawmakers even bringing the lifelike dolls into legislatures.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler died on Sunday.

Two pigeons sneaked aboard a Delta Air Lines plane, delaying the flight twice.

There are times when the Scripps National Spelling Bee transforms into a geography bee.

Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in South Africa on Tuesday.

Flamingos, pelicans, herons and parrots are just a few of the wild birds that call Miami home.

A pack of veterinarians clamber over hefty metal crates of animals they load one-by-one onto a fleet of semi-trucks.

Oscar Mayer’s iconic Wienermobile fleet will be “hot dogging” it later this week at the inaugural "Wienie 500.”.

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw Monday by more than 143,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting game.

A man who tried to help a burglar cash in from the theft of a gold toilet was spared prison on Monday after a British judge said he had been taken advantage of by the thieves.

A Harris County man, Demery Ardell Wilson, has filed a lawsuit against Whataburger, alleging that the restaurant's negligence led to a severe allergic reaction after he was served onions despite requesting none.

Stars in glamorous gowns often peacock on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet, but one attendee Saturday night literally came as a bird.

New experiments show eggs are less likely to crack when they fall on their side.

New Zealand is still one of a few countries in the world where sheep outnumber people.

A miniature dachshund named Valerie who was lost for 18 months — or around half her life — on an Australian island has been reunited with her owners.

The sight of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured on camera for the first time.

Animal welfare officers faced the grisly task of euthanizing more than 350,000 chickens by hand after they were left starving and cannibalizing each other.

A Kentucky woman was in a sticky mess when she found stacks of boxes containing lollipops on her doorstep.