Fish are removed from the New York Aquarium in 1941, which is to be demolished as part of the construction work and improvement for the Battery-Brooklyn Tunnel in New York City. Associated Press hide caption
Must Reads : The Two-Way Some stories are just too weird, too funny or too sad to ignore. They may not be "serious news," but are so fascinating you must read them. NPR correspondents are on the watch for such tales. We pass along the best, from NPR and other news outlets.
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Scientists from the Nautilus exploration vessel found this bright purple orb near California's Channel Islands. E/V Nautilus/Screen shot by NPR hide caption
A cover for Mad magazine by artist Jack Davis. DC Entertainment hide caption
Scientists using a high-resolution X-ray technique found that this bone belonging to a hominin, an ancient, extinct relative of modern humans, has a malignant tumor. Patrick Randolph-Quinney (UCLan) hide caption
The re-entry of a Chinese rocket stage lit up the sky over Utah, Nevada and California on Wednesday night. Matt Holm hide caption
James Ramsey has resigned as the University of Louisville's president, ending weeks of uncertainty over his status. Timothy D. Easley/AP hide caption
Wednesday
Chief David Beautiful Bald Eagle during the opening of the Days of '76 Museum in Deadwood, S.D. Bald Eagle died on Friday at the age of 97. Tom Griffith/Rapid City Journal via AP hide caption
David Bald Eagle, Lakota Chief, Musician, Cowboy And Actor, Dies At 97
In 2004 Reid Brewer of the University of Alaska Southeast measured an unusual beaked whale that turned up dead in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. A tissue sample from the carcass later showed that the whale was one of the newly identified species. Don Graves hide caption
Tank, a pet 75-pound tortoise, survived the Los Angeles Sand Fire after his owner were forced to leave him behind. Courtesy of the County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control hide caption
Though Jupiter's red spot looks small in this photo, it's actually about 10,000 miles wide — bigger than Earth's diameter. Space Telescope Science Institute/NASA hide caption
How Jupiter's Red Spot Makes Things High Above It Hot, Hot, Hot
People gather at the site of a bombing in Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli Wednesday. The powerful explosion killed at least 44 people and devastated nearby buildings. Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
When the Solar Impulse 2 airplane arrived in Spain from New York last month, it was greeted by the Spanish Eagle Patrol. Solar Impulse hide caption
Monday
Pig-tailed macaques like these, seen in a German zoo, raided a voting place in Thailand on Sunday. Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Sunday
A "corpse flower" is seen in bloom at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., in 2013. This is not the same flower that's about to bloom in New York. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
The Solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft prepares to take off from the Cairo International Airport in the Egyptian capital on Sunday as it heads to Abu Dhabi on the final leg of its world tour. Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images hide caption