The bull managed to leave a "Coke can-sized" hole in the hunter’s leg — but died shortly after.Chris Mcsherry/FacebookChris Mcsherry was not put off by the incident and claimed that he will return to hunting after recovering. A trophy hunter in Australia suffered the brutal revenge of a wild buffalo when he was gored twice in the leg by a 1,700-pound bull that he’d just shot for sport. The incident left him with a “Coke can-sized” wound in his right leg and an eight-inch gash below his buttocks.

A literally heartless insect known as the "murder hornet" that can sting you repeatedly and land you in the hospital? It's not a nightmare — it's the Asian Giant Hornet.They’re huge, they’re deadly, and they’re annihilating bees by the thousands. Meet the Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) — also known as the Japanese giant hornet or the ominous murder hornet — a large species of insect with a flesh-destroying sting that demolishes pretty much anything in its path.

New research reveals that fangblenny venom is meant to numb instead of harm predators.Reinhard dir Scherlullsteinbild / Getty ImagesBluestriped fangblenny The fangblenny fish always appear to be smiling — but that’s actually just how their mouths look when they’re closed around some giant poisonous fangs. Until recently, scientists were unsure just what kinds of powers the finger-sized fishies’ chompers possessed. But a new paper from Current Biology reveals that the unassuming creatures actually shoot out an opiod-like venom unlike any that has ever been seen in fish before.

After a fateful accident at Japan’s Tokaimura nuclear power plant in 1999, Hisashi Ouchi lost most of his skin and began crying blood before his agony finally ended.Peaked Interest/YouTubeA photo of Hisashi Ouchi, the most irradiated human in history. When Hisashi Ouchi arrived at the University of Tokyo Hospital after being exposed to the highest level of radiation of any human in history, doctors were stunned. The 35-year-old nuclear power plant technician had almost zero white blood cells and thus no immune system.

A Spanish immigrant named José Paronella toiled for over a decade to build his dream palace, where he hosted lavish parties in the 1940s and '50s. So what happened to Paronella Castle? In 1924, wealthy businessman José Paronella left Australia for his hometown in Spain, where he met his wife Margarita. The couple married the following year and returned to Australia for their honeymoon. It was here that they the built the magnificent Paronella Castle.

After four white police officers were acquitted for the beating of Rodney King in April 1992, protests turned violent as the LA riots left 53 dead, 2,000 injured, and thousands incarcerated.On April 29, 1992, the streets of South Central Los Angeles erupted into chaos. Four white officers of the LAPD had just been acquitted by a nearly all-white jury in the violent, videotaped beating of a black man named Rodney King — and the city’s black community was now incensed.

In May 2013, Pearl Fernandez brutally murdered her son Gabriel Fernandez with help from her boyfriend Isauro Aguirre in their California home. The murder of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez horrified Los Angeles. Not only had the young boy been viciously killed by his own mother, Pearl Fernandez, and his mother’s boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, but he had also been tortured by the couple for eight months leading up to his brutal death.

Sometimes when something is interesting, "interesting" just doesn't seem to do it justice. For when those times arise, check out these interesting synonyms. Wikimedia CommonsPierre Brassau aka Peter the chimpanzee. Oftentimes in writing, we end up looking for interesting synonyms, because sometimes the word you want to use is just not interesting enough. Take “interesting,” for example, a word which means “arousing a feeling of interest,” but can sometimes, depending on the inflection and the situation mean other things.

A new study examining some of Leonardo da Vinci's sketches in the Codex Arundel reveals the artist calculated the earth's gravitational constant at a 97% accuracy rate.FierceAbin/Getty ImagesA portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, the famous 15th and 16th-century inventor and artist. In 2017, California Institute of Technology professor Mory Gharib was searching the Codex Arundel, a collection of notes and sketches by Leonardo da Vinci dating from 1480 to 1518, for illustrations that he could share with his graduate students when he noticed a particularly intriguing sketch.

Pouncy was found slumped over on the stoop of a home across the street from the hot dog stand, bleeding profusely. Steven Depolo/Flickr In an ironic turn of events, a man robbing a wiener stand this Tuesday accidentally shot himself in the penis with his own gun. 19-year-old Terrion Pouncy was robbing a hot dog stand on West Pullman in South Side Chicago this Halloween when he accidentally shot himself in the penis, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.