Wiley Vegas Cops Rescue Road Runner

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Photo shows a road runner that was saved from a bush near Lake Mead in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, undated photo. The NLVPD stated that North Las Vegas Animal Safety Companies officers responded Monday, Aug. 22, 2022, when a roadrunner was discovered caught in a bush near Las Vegas BLVD & Lake Mead in NLV. (@NLVPD/Newsflash)

Vegas cops are the talk of the toons after rescuing a real-life Road Runner from a trap of which Wile E. Coyote would have been proud. In the celebrated Warner…

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Trench Fever That Affected Tolkien And C.S. Lewis Could Be Prevented Say Scientists

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Bartonella bacteria (green) have invaded red blood cells (red). (Biozentrum, Universitat Basel/Newsflash)

The discovery of a special antibody could help prevent dangerous bacterial infections such as trench fever, whose sufferers included celebrated authors like J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.…

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Silverback Once Feared Infertile Turns 31 and is Now a Superstud

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Mambie, a gorilla, celebrated his 31st birthday at the BIOPARC Valencia, in Spain, pictured in March, 2022. (BIOPARC Valencia/Newsflash)

This critically endangered silverback gorilla, who was once believed to be infertile, has celebrated his 31st birthday and is now the proud dad of numerous offspring. Mambie has just turned…

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121-Year-Old Woman Declared Dead At 101 Stuns Doctors By Surviving And Is Still Alive 20 Years Later

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Akkiz Buyukturgut from Turkey who has 8 children and 48 grandchildren, celebrated her 121st birthday. (Newsflash)

A woman who was declared dead to her town when she reached 101 has gone on to live another 20 years and has celebrated her 121st birthday this week by…

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Europes Oldest Woman Celebrates Her 116th Birthday

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Sister Andre - whose real name is Lucile Randon - is the oldest woman in France and possibly the oldest in Europe

A nun believed to be Europe's oldest woman who has just celebrated her 116th birthday says prayer makes her happiest, although her fondest memory was the moment that her two…

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