WEIRD NEWS

Three thousand pairs of false eyelashes have been seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents after officials determined they were illegally imported from China to New Orleans.

A spectator has been escorted from the course at the Scottish Open after taking a club from Rory McIlroy’s bag and taking a few swings with it.

A search is on for a 12-foot python that escaped from its enclosure inside Louisiana's largest shopping mall.

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.

A long-awaited U.S. government report on UFOs released Friday makes at least one thing clear: The truth is still out there.

An FBI agent applied for a federal warrant in 2018 to seize a cache of gold that he said had been “stolen during the Civil War” while en route to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, and was “now concealed in an underground cave” in northwestern Pennsylvania.

A western Montana couple were able to save a horse from drowning in the Bitterroot River on Father's Day, and may have made a new friend.

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

There’s plenty of "buzz" about inviting these creepy crawlers to dinner -- as the main course.

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

A small town in Florida accidentally sold its water tower in a blundered real estate transaction.

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.

Souvenirs from Sardinia’s pristine beaches can cost dearly.

Professional python hunters and amateurs alike can win prizes in Florida’s annual hunt for the Burmese pythons that are ravaging the state’s native species.

A judge has rejected the “stand your ground” defense of a Florida man who said he beat an iguana to death only after it attacked him.

A 17-year-old girl shoved a large bear that was swatting at her family dog in their Southern California backyard.

A herd of 15 wild elephants that walked 500 kilometers (300 miles) from a forest in China’s southwest is approaching the major city of Kunming as authorities rush to try to keep them out of populated areas.

A man living in San Francisco has mailed a Bob Dylan double album back to an Ohio library where it was overdue by 48 years.