Animals

One bold bull was fed up with walking -- hijacking a scooter outside a shop and taking off on a wild joyride through the streets of India like he owned the place.

It’s one thing to read about it, but seeing is believing -- CCTV footage shows the moment this bovine badass, strolling through Rishikesh, India, earlier this month, locked eyes on a white scooter ... and hopped on like he was born to ride.

This bull didn’t just hop on ... he got comfy, planted his head on the handlebars, and started scooting across the road -- looks like he's definitely done this before!

Jon Jones is at the top of everyone's list of 100 dudes who could join forces to take down a gorilla ... so what's his take on the whole debate??

Pray for the gorilla.

TMZ Sports caught up with the UFC superstar at LAX this week ... and we had to ask with so many social media users throwing his name around, how does he feel he'd fare against a silverback??

Animal rights activist Varun Virlan says he's horrified at a video that has gone viral -- showing a woman seasoning and then air-frying two crabs while they were still alive!

ICYMI ... a TikToker posted a cooking video last week showing how she prepared a dish featuring blue crabs -- she seasons some potatoes and corn, then the live crustaceans themselves, before placing them, still alive, in a glass-bottom air-fryer and cooking them for 15 minutes, with the camera showing their demise.

We spoke to the Virlan, the digital media director of Animal Save Movement, who says videos like these are exactly the problem with how crabs are excluded from being considered protected animals -- like dogs, cats, horses -- and are seen more like vegetables than animals.

It seems Rocket Raccoon's fallen on hard times ... 'cause instead of saving the Marvel Universe, he's smoking meth in Ohio -- or, at least a raccoon that looks like him is.

Body cam footage from in Springfield Township, Ohio Monday evening is going viral after an officer pulled a woman over and told her she had a warrant out for her arrest.

After putting her in cuffs, he goes back to the car ... and finds a raccoon sitting in the front seat -- hands wrapped around a glass cylinder.

There will be no Triple Crown winner this year -- Sovereignty, the big star of the Kentucky Derby, will NOT compete in the Preakness later this month.

Race officials stated Tuesday they received word from trainer Bill Mott that the three-year-old colt would shift its focus to the Belmont Stakes.

"We extend our congratulations to the connections of Sovereignty and respect their decision," Mike Rogers, VP of 1/ST, said. "We continue to see the excitement building toward the milestone celebration of the 150th Preakness Stakes, and we look forward to an incredible weekend of world-class racing and entertainment."

A top primatologist is trying to bring some reason into the hundred men vs one gorilla debate ... explaining the main reason why a fight like this wouldn't go down -- and arguing this paints these beautiful creatures in a bad light.

We spoke with Michael Stern -- a Harvard-trained primatologist with decades of experience studying gorillas both in captivity and in the wild in Uganda -- and, he tells us the main reason this debate is so silly is because one gorilla would look around, see it was outnumbered and take off.

Stern says this is the equivalent of asking if a unicorn could take down a dinosaur -- or if a shark with a laser beam could blow up a submarine!

Livvy Dunne is ready to watch some horses run around ... and she's looking damn cute in the process!!

The Kentucky Oaks are going on at Churchill Downs on Friday ... and the recently retired LSU gymnast couldn't wait 'til Saturday's Derby to get in on all the fun.

The all-pink 'fit -- including a nice hat to top it all off -- was very fitting for the Oaks Day Survivors Parade honoring breast and ovarian cancer survivors.

Kyle Richards and her crew were hiss-terically losing their minds, shrieking and causing a full-on spectacle over a snake that slithered its way into their place!

You should see the chaos-ssss unfold on TikTok, courtesy of Kyle’s daughter Sophia --  Kyle was so rattled, she went rushing to call her ex Mauricio Umansky to come save them from the snake.

It was pure comedy mayhem -- Kyle, daughter Farrah, and the rest of the crew were running wild through the house in the Palm Springs, California area, trying to boot the serpent, even panicking over whether it had laid eggs inside.

Chris Pontius says he's gotten up close and personal with silverback gorillas before ... and, if he were a bettin' man, he's putting his money on one gorilla to take down 100 dudes.

We caught up with the "Jackass" star Tuesday afternoon ... and, we asked him the question consuming the internet right now -- could 100 men defeat a full-grown gorilla in combat ... or would the primate go ape on the legion of guys?

Pontius says he and Steve-O went into the jungles of Rwanda for their show "Wildboyz" back in the day ... and, they got to observe a group of wild gorillas in close quarters -- and he thinks one gorilla could beat down a group of 100 guys.

Kyle Richards says there's more to her dramatic confrontation with a woman on the street ... 'cause Kyle claims she only went after her because she was dragging her dog across the street -- something cameras didn't quite capture.

We caught up with the reality television star outside the Beverly Hilton Hotel Monday night ... and, we had to ask her about her intense argument with a dog walker earlier this month.

ICYMI ... photogs caught Kyle running up to a woman and getting in her face about the way she was treating her dogs -- which set the woman off and nearly led to a full-on fistfight.

Rick Ross says he has the blueprint for getting 100 humans to beat up a single gorilla — it’s all in guerrilla warfare recruiting!!!

TMZ Hip Hop linked up with the Biggest Boss in Burbank on Monday and got his take on the most viral topic of the moment.

The post has over 200 million views spawning varying opinions galore ... but Ross has it all mapped out.

Penguins may be quirky and awkward, but they're absolutely adorable and celebs can't get enough of 'em! In honor of World Penguin Day, we've got an entire album that will have you totally flabbergasted flipper-gasted! ... The cuteness simply can NOT be contained!

Shaun White and Nina Dobrev had an ice day in chilly Antarctica and posed with a colony of penguins, while Olivia Rodrigo's penguin selfie just goes to show that penguins are indeed fluffier than your average bird ... So cute!

12:36 PM PT -- KTLA reports Alejandro Acosta Oliveros has been released on bail.

A suspected serial cat-killer was busted in Southern California this week for animal cruelty after he was caught on video trying to grab a cat, cops say.

Footage shared by the Santa Ana Police Department on Wednesday allegedly shows 45-year-old Alejandro Acosta Oliveros scooping up a cat between two cars in Orange County -- and his arrest follows several reports of cats being abused and killed.

Cops say Oliveros was positively ID’d by multiple victims and witnesses, and he was charged after officers found evidence of the crimes at his Santa Ana home.

Police just released body cam video from the Gene Hackman death case ... and you see officers searching his New Mexico home before ultimately finding his and his wife's bodies ... with one of their live dogs lying next to Betsy Arakawa.

TMZ obtained the footage Tuesday and you see cops scouring the Santa Fe home in search of Gene and Betsy.

Police find Betsy's body first -- she's on the floor near a locked exterior door, with one of their dogs by her side ... and Gene's body is later found near the kitchen.

Dead rodents and their nests were scattered across eight detached outbuildings on Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa’s property in Santa Fe, New Mexico ... a health report  obtained by TMZ reveals.

The New Mexico Department of Public Health conducted an environmental assessment back in March, one week after Gene Hackman was found dead in the same house as his wife Betsy, who died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), caused by hantavirus.

The deadly disease spreads through rat and mouse urine and droppings, often picked up when someone’s cleaning out attics or basements.

Jeff Corwin thinks humans are looking too far back for species to save ... noting it's a substantial scientific achievement to bring dire wolves back -- but, there are a lot of endangered species who are currently in dire need of help.

The wildlife conservationist joined us on "TMZ Live" Wednesday ... and, he ran us through the particulars of bringing dire wolves back from extinction -- likening part of the process to the how scientists brought dinosaurs back in "Jurassic Park."

Corwin explains these aren't purebred dire wolves ... but, they're about as close as humans can get given they died out more than 10,000 years ago.