Pizza at Pompeii: Newly-discovered painting shows the food’s ‘distant ancestor’

So if it looks like pizza, smells like pizza, and tastes like pizza – why isn’t it pizza? Take a look at this 2,000-year-old painting at Pompeii that shows pizza’s “distant ancestor.”

Steer clear: Cow runs loose in rural Pennsylvania town

Neighbors in Kutztown, Pennsylvania were told not to approach a cow that had broken loose Monday night.

Adult diapers, urine pads dumped onto New Jersey roadway: police

Police in one New Jersey town took to social media to warn a driver they say is illegally dumping adult diapers and urine pads on area roadways.

Women in Zimbabwe challenge law banning sex toys as obscene, morally harmful

Owning sex toys can put a woman in prison in Zimbabwe. Sitabile Dewa, who is a women's rights activist, calls the law “archaic" and an infringement of her freedom.

Van Leeuwen is looking for an ice cream taster

Van Leeuwen, the ice cream company known for wacky flavors, is celebrating its 15th birthday with a contest that could land you the role of LICT: lead ice cream taster.

World's Ugliest Dog crowned in Petaluma

Scooter, a Chinese Crested, was the winner of this year’s World’s Ugliest Dog Contest, held in Petaluma Friday. The 7-year-old pup with wispy hair, deformed hind legs, and a hanging tongue narrowly escaped being euthanized after he was born.

Watch: Dingo bites sunbathing tourist on Australian beach

Wild video shows the moment a dingo moved in on a group of beachgoers and bit a French tourist's backside.

Plant-based-meat advocacy group wants Macon Bacon to change name

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine wrote to the president of the Georgia collegiate team urging him to change its name.

Stepson of billionaire killed on Titanic sub defends attending Blink-182 concert to 'cope'

Hamish Harding's stepson said he was using Blink-182 to "cope" when the British billionaire and four others were missing on the tourist submersible that vanished two days earlier in a dive to the Titanic wreckage site.

Florida community ordered to quarantine after giant invasive snail sighting

The U.S. Department of Agriculture considers the giant African snail to be destructive to many plants and can cause structural damage to certain building materials. The agency reports that the snail species was problematic in the Sunshine State during the 1960s and took nearly a decade to eradicate.

Praise be to AI: Hundreds attend church service generated by ChatGPT

Hundreds of German Protestants attended a church service in Bavaria that was generated almost entirely by artificial intelligence.