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A successful team effort led to the dramatic saving of an 8-year-old horse named Valcour. The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA), SRH Veterinary Services, and first responders all worked together to retrieve the animal who was stuck in broken floorboards in Ipswich, Massachusetts. TheLipizzaner, a European bred riding horse, fell partially through the floor after …

British archaeologists recently uncovered eerie medieval gravestones during a search around an ancient shipwreck. Bournemouth University announced the discovery in a press release on Friday. The gravestones were found in Studland Bay, off the coast of Dorset, and are believed to have been lying at the bottom of the English Channel for 800 years. “The slabs, carved from Purbeck marble, …

With thousands upon thousands of words in the English language, some are bound to have different meanings and uses. An idiom is defined as “an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements in its grammatically atypical use of words,” …

A Pakistani man is currently in a mental hospital after he tried establishing the first gay club in the country, according to a recent report. The man, whose identity has not been released, was interviewed by the Telegraph on Sunday shortly before he was institutionalized. The man explained that he filed an application to the deputy commissioner of Abbottabad to …

A woman who refused to change her four-month-old baby’s name after a request from her sister-in-law was not wrong to hold her ground, said Reddit users in response to a social media post — and an expert told Fox News Digital that the sister-in-law was not entirely out of line for asking, either. “AITA for telling my SIL [sister-in-law] I …

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A missing woman was found eaten alive by a massive python after locals cut her body out of the snake in Indonesia. Farida, 45, went missing on Thursday night. Her body was discovered inside the reticulated python Friday by her husband and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province, a local official said, according to AFP. The search for …

This year, two “broods” of cicadas are emerging at the same time – and with them, reports of a mysterious fungus that is causing cicadas to become “zombies” who display abnormal sexual behaviors. But is there anything to worry about? Is this really happening? Is “Dawn of the Dead: Cicadas” on the horizon? Fox News Digital spoke to several experts …

Reports of “venomous flying spiders” poised to invade the United States may seem scary to some, but multiple spider experts told Fox News Digital this week that, while there’s cause for concern, there is no threat to humans or pets. The Joro spider, an invasive species originally from Asia, was first officially sighted in the United States about 10 years …

A group of wildlife biologists recently made a rare discovery after finding a fish thousands of miles away from where it was spawned. The Aquatic Invasive Species Crew from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) were at the Kansas River in search of an invasive species when they stumbled upon the unexpected – the American eel. The KDWP …