Day: August 10, 2024

A chicken with four legs was born at the Mississippi Valley Fair in Davenport, Iowa. Fair staff said that, aside from having two extra legs, the chicken appeared healthy.

On the morning of August 14, Jupiter and Mars will appear close in the sky, an event often referred to as a conjunction. To skywatchers, they’ll appear to be less than the width of the Moon apart despite being hundreds of millions of miles from each other.

Three park visitors from Germany received federal violation notices for vandalizing, defacing or destroying property, the National Park Service announced Friday.

A popular rock formation in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area collapsed on Thursday.

What appears to be an alligator was spotted Sunday near swimmers in Erie, Pennsylvania, prompting authorities to look into the reptile’s origins and whereabouts.

Tropical Disturbance #1 is continuing to organize as it crosses the tropical Atlantic, moving toward the Caribbean. A cloud of Sahara dust is just to the north, but the plume is thinning, and there's a good chance the disturbance will be able to fight it off. The National Hurricane Center has the odds in the high category that the system will develop into at least a tropical depression next week.

A Flash Flood Emergency was issued for the Greensboro, North Carolina, area on Saturday. It comes just days after Tropical Storm Debby caused flooding and tornadoes in the state.