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A Doduo in Sokcho.

You Can Only Play Pokémon Go in South Korea in This One Seaside Town

The "Pokémon Go holy land on the peninsula" is being mobbed.

Cara Giaimo July 13, 2016

Found: A Beetle Whose Name Is Banned From Chinese Media

The name was meant to be an honor, but it backfired.

Sarah Laskow July 13, 2016

Rangers Seize Hundreds of Pounds of Mushrooms at Crater Lake

They were poached.

Eric Grundhauser July 13, 2016

Found: A Drone That Looks Like a Bird Crash-Landed in Somalia

Presumably, it's a spy drone.

Sarah Laskow July 12, 2016

People Are Already Using Pokémon Go as a Real Estate Selling Point

Who needs parking when you could live near a PokéStop?

Cara Giaimo and Sarah Laskow July 12, 2016

The Chief Mouser

Everything We Know About the Cat Living at 10 Downing Street

Atlas Obscura July 12, 2016

Australian Fired After Profane Rant Over Lack of Pokémon Go in Singapore

The madness continues.

Erik Shilling July 12, 2016

Found: Exactly How Much of His Ear Van Gogh Sliced Off

It was more than we thought.

Sarah Laskow July 12, 2016

A new method for frightening Pokemon trespassers.

Pokémon Go Players Keep Hanging Out In This Alaskan Septic Field

Stop the madness.

Cara Giaimo July 12, 2016

The 'Tree of Knowledge' in Sydney Is Secretly Being Cut Down

Eric Grundhauser July 12, 2016

A Vacant California Prison Was Approved to Be a Massive Marijuana Farm

It's solving a lot of problems.

Erik Shilling July 11, 2016

Idyllic Beach Now Public Thanks to a $1.7 Million Crowdfunding Campaign

New Zealand did a good thing.

Erik Shilling July 11, 2016

The Westboro Baptist Church gets in on the fun.

The Westboro Baptist Church Is Getting Owned In Pokémon Go

“We recruited Jigglypuff to deal with the sodomite Clefairy" is probably not a sentence you thought you'd read today.

Cara Giaimo July 11, 2016

Found: 57 Dead Sharks on an Alabama Beach

How they died is a mystery.

Sarah Laskow July 11, 2016

The Bahamas, New Zealand and Other Countries Issue Warnings About Travel to U.S.

A number of nations put out notices this week about police violence and demonstrations.

Jessie Guy-Ryan July 10, 2016

A stuffed black bear that is not Cocaine Bear, but likely resembles him.

Gather 'Round for the Ballad of Cocaine Bear

A Kentucky company has tracked down the surprising casualty of a drug trafficker's bizarre death.

Jessie Guy-Ryan July 10, 2016

Criminals Targeting Victims with the Geo-Located Pokémon Go Game

This weekend brought a rash of robberies in Missouri thanks to the popular app. And that's not the only unintended consequence of augmented reality.

Reyhan Harmanci July 10, 2016

Evidence of Neanderthal Cannibalism Puzzles Researchers

The largest discovery of cannibalized Neanderthal remains provides a few answers and a lot of questions.

Jessie Guy-Ryan July 10, 2016