birds "The State Birds are Garbage" Rusty Blazenhoff

girl scouts You can help decide the next Girl Scout Cookie Mascot: will it be a bison, ferret, bat, or mountain goat? Jennifer Sandlin

animals Why did 1,000 birds die in one night last week by smashing into this Chicago building? David Pescovitz

bugs Spotted Lanternflies invade Illinois Rob Beschizza

video games Payday 3 studio head issues formal apology for game's rocky launch Grant St. Clair

pets Medieval pet names included Sturdy, Nosewise, Tibert, and Meone Jennifer Sandlin

inefficient governors As Ron DeSantis struggles, Florida's inflation rate is nearly twice as high as the rest of the U.S. Carla Sinclair

tabloids Titanic "curse" and a mad scientist in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

mistakes Teens charged with killing and eating swan Rob Beschizza

wonderful creatures Grubby the opossum is on the loose in Homer, Alaska Jennifer Sandlin

music Austin band Como Las Movies has deep roots Elías Villoro

Sears and Roebuck’s monkey business When you could buy a monkey from the Sears mail-order catalog Elías Villoro

air travel A Southwest flight headed to Florida fills up with smoke after the plane collides with birds Carla Sinclair

H5N1 This map tracks the global avian flu outbreak Jennifer Sandlin

Lenten delicacies Church-approved "non-meats" to eat during Lent: alligator, turtle, snake, capybara, beaver, muskrat, puffin Jennifer Sandlin

movies That time when ferocious flocks of seabirds attacked people, inspiring Hitchcock's The Birds David Pescovitz

wyoming Wyoming bill to legalize "chicken roping" in bars awaits governor's signature Mark Frauenfelder

misinterpretations Texas woman who read in major newspapers that she died disagrees: "I am alive" Carla Sinclair

UFOs New official US government UFO report released, and sightings are way up Thom Dunn

Rock n Roll Iconic rock guitarist, Jeff Beck, has died Gareth Branwyn