NFL Legend Clones Beloved Pet: Weird News & Oddities

The top predator in the world’s oceans, orcas, are called “killer whales” for good reason.

California State University researchers recorded the first-ever video in the Gulf of California of orca pods attacking another apex predator, great white sharks, to feast on their highly nutritious livers. The same behavior that had previously been recorded in Australia and South Africa.

Orca are skilled pack hunters, using coordination and strategy to outsmart their prey, passing the trick to immobilizing sharks on to their young: flip them on their backs to trigger a trancelike state.

“This is the first time we are seeing orcas repeatedly target juvenile white sharks,” said Dr. Salvador Jorgensen of California State University, one of the authors of the article published in Frontiers in Marine Science.

He noted that adult white sharks have effectively ceded control to hunting orcas and quickly evacuate when they encroach and stay gone for months.

“But these juvenile white sharks may be naive to orcas,” he said.

• Read more: Video: Orcas Hunt Great White Sharks, Teach Their Young To Eat The Livers

Tom Brady Clones Pet

Even if you could afford the $50,000 to have it done, would you have your dead dog cloned? Is a genetic replica of your horse worth $85,000?

NFL legend Tom Brady revealed a few days ago that he had Lua, the pit bull mix he adopted with his ex-wife, cloned after the dog died in December 2023. The clone, Junie, gives Lua “a second chance” at life, he said.

“I love my animals,” Brady said in a statement. “They mean the world to me and my family.”

Brady is reportedly an investor in Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences, which cloned the dog. The company recently acquired Viagen Pets and Equine, a pet-cloning company that has cloned pets for celebrities such as Barbra Streisand and Paris Hilton, prompting Brady’s announcement.

“A few years ago, I worked with Colossal and leveraged their non-invasive cloning technology through a simple blood draw of our family’s elderly dog before she passed,” Brady said in a statement, touting the merger as one that will help families bereft after losing a pet and help save endangered species.

The first dog to be cloned was in 2005, according to reports.

• Read more: Tom Brady’s Dead Dog Gets ‘Second Chance’ As A Clone

‘Sandwich Guy’ Assault Verdict Is In

“Sandwich Guy” Sean C. Dunn, who hurled a sandwich at the chest of a federal agent earlier in Washington, D.C., this year in opposition to President Donald Trump’s law enforcement policies, was acquitted of an assault charge Thursday.

Dunn, 37, gained viral fame for his act of defiance during Trump’s crime crackdown this summer. He said he was speaking out against fascism and the administration’s anti-immigration policies.

The U.S. Attorney's office said in charging documents that Dunn was tried for “throwing a sandwich at a federal officer at point-blank range,” emphasizing the legal issue was assault, not political expression.

The jury decided Dunn’s act was not an attempt to cause injury.

• Read more: ‘Sandwich Guy’ Who Threw Sub At Federal Agent Acquitted

Burglar Made 3 Tacos — And A Mess: Police

A 37-year-old woman faces multiple felony charges after she recently went on a drunken rampage and broke into a Wauconda, Illinois, man’s home, helped herself to his grocery provisions, and made three tacos, police said.

The man told police he came home to find his back door ajar and garbage and food thrown all over his home, especially in the kitchen, and some of his college-age daughter’s clothing strewn across the lawn.

Police found her lying on the public right-of-way between the sidewalk and street in the early evening. They had been busy throughout the day taking reports from other Wauconda residents who had run-ins with her.

• Read more: Woman Made 3 Tacos After Breaking Into Home, Police Say

Thigh Bone Isn’t Connected To Hip Bone

Multiple pieces are still missing after thieves stole and began scattering the bones of a 6-foot-tall Halloween skeleton valued at $3,000 around a Westfield, New Jersey, neighborhood.

The skeleton was stolen in the overnight hours a few days before Halloween. The homeowner was left with only the head, which was floating in a pond.

The legs were found a few houses down, and other limbs were found elsewhere in the community. Police are asking the public for help to locate the missing pieces.

• Read more: Skeleton's Bones Scattered Around Community