Amiry the serval was rescued from a tree in Cincinnati in January. A DNA test confirmed his species, while a narcotics test confirmed his exposure to cocaine. Ray Anderson/Cincinnati Animal Care hide caption
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Inside the Roman Colosseum. The central arena was originally covered by a wooden platform. Berly McCoy/NPR hide caption
Pedestrians cross Houston Street as students wearing masks leave the New Explorations into Science, Technology and Math (NEST+m) school in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, in New York. Brittainy Newman/AP hide caption
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs discusses the iPhone during a June 2007 keynote address. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Cadbury's Creme Eggs move down the production line at the Cadbury's Bournville production plant on Dec. 15, 2009, in Birmingham, England. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images hide caption
English police say they foiled an 'eggs-travagent' plot to steal Cadbury chocolates
A Belarusian tractor laden with harvested sugarcane idles outside a sugar mill. Diaa Hadid/NPR hide caption
The premise of The Last of Us is that the cordyceps fungus turns people into creatures that do the fungus's bidding. HBO Max/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
'The Last Of Us' made us wonder: Could a deadly fungus really cause a pandemic?
U.S. Customs and Border Protection found the skull of a young dolphin in someone's luggage in the Detroit Metropolitan Airport last week, CBP said. U.S. Customs and Border Protection hide caption
The suspected Chinese spy balloon drifts to the ocean after being shot down off the coast in Surfside Beach, S.C., on Saturday. Randall Hill/Reuters hide caption
A "mysterious" flying spiral spotted by the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, early on Jan. 18, could be related to a SpaceX satellite launch earlier in the day, scientists speculated. NAOJ & Asahi Shimbun via Storyful/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
A young girl's note to the police department asked to test for evidence of Santa. Cumberland Police Department/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Castaway Elvis Francois is attended by Colombian Navy members after he was rescued near the department of La Guajira, in the extreme north of Colombia. According to the Navy, the 47-year-old from Dominica said he had been adrift for 24 days in the Caribbean Sea after he was repairing a boat last December near the island of Sint-Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. Colombian Navy press office via AP hide caption
An airline worker died on Saturday after being "ingested" into the engine of American Airlines Embraer aircraft, like the kind pictured here at the Dallas/Fort Worth International airport in Dallas in June 2021. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A Brazil fan points to "zero" on the Budweiser cup prior to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group G match between Brazil and Serbia at Lusail Stadium in Lusail City, Qatar. Justin Setterfield/Getty Images hide caption
The start of 2023 is the perfect time to revisit experts' century-old predictions about the world. Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
There's no debate about this GOAT. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images hide caption
Gregor Johann Mendel (1822 - 1884) the priest and botanist whose work laid the foundation of the study of genetics. Hulton Archive/Getty Images/ Max Posner/NPR hide caption
Players from the West Region team from Honolulu celebrate winning the Little League World Series championship game in August. Joshua Bessex/Getty Images hide caption
Far from the Earth, time gets extremely weird. Black holes can cause it to stretch and even break down entirely. NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption
Researchers say time is an illusion. So why are we all obsessed with it?
