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Image: Amarillo Zoo / FacebookThe city of Amarillo, Texas has asked the public for help identifying a weird animal-like figure that was seen on security cameras outside the Amarillo Zoo last month. The official City of Amarillo Facebook page has turned up lots of guesses, but no one knows for sure what the seemingly bipedal cryptid could be.“The Amarillo Zoo captured a strange image outside the zoo in the dark and early morning hours of May 21 (around 1:25 a.m.). Is it a person with a strange hat who likes to walk at…

Graphic: Karl GustafsonWhen you put a protective flea collar on your dog or cat, the last thing you expect is for that product to hurt your pet. Or kill them. Enter Seresto Flea and Tick Collars, which did just that. At least 2,340 pets are believed to have been killed by Seresto collars. Gizmodo has obtained complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission that include horrific details of the animals’ suffering. We believe the complaints are an important piece in the Seresto story that has been missing until now:…

Image: UniversalThe final installment in the newest trilogy of Jurassic World films, Jurassic World: Dominion is coming to theaters this weekend. While everyone already knows that this film is going to make an incredible amount of money and be considered a box office success, critics’ reactions on social media seem, for the most part, resigned and annoyed that they had to sit through something that ultimately didn’t work. While the performances of Bryce Dallas Howard and returning cast members from the original beloved…

You might well spend a lot of time scrolling through social media feeds—but have you checked the state of your own profile pages lately? From Twitter to Slack, these profiles tell the rest of the world (or the office) about you, and it’s important that they’re consistent, up to date, and showing you in your best light.Here we’ll take you through the steps needed to update your profiles on most of the major social networks, and guide you through the options that are available—some of which you may not be aware of. We’re…

Image: ParamountDeadline reports that Neve Campbell, who was cast in the Scream franchise in her early twenties, will not be returning for Scream 6. Campbell has appeared as the character Sidney Prescott in every Scream film since the first one in 1996, including 2022’s legacy-quel Scream 5.Campbell stated, “As a woman I have had to work extremely hard in my career to establish my value, especially when it comes to Scream. I felt the offer that was presented to me did not equate to the value I have brought to the…

Image: ParamountStar Trek is no stranger to cinema, and the franchise’s quality of films tends to fluctuate with each new release. We’ve seen plenty of pretty good films from the series, and we’ve also seen films that weren’t as good as they could’ve been. Everyone’s got their own favorites, but if there’s one thing that can be agreed upon, it’s that Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan stands above the rest.Released exactly today in 1982, Khan served as a sequel to both the original 1979 Star Trek film, and the 1967 episode,…

Sam Neill as Alan Grant in Jurassic Park.Screenshot: UniversalIn Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Jurassic Park, life finds a way. An island comprised entirely of female dinosaurs finds a way to create new life when some of the creatures spontaneously change sex. It’s a crucial plot point and, according to a popular theory, it’s teased near the beginning of the film.As the main characters arrive on Jurassic Park via helicopter, they experience some turbulence. Everyone grabs their seatbelts for safety except Dr. Alan Grant,…

Sure, relationship drama—but check those cute Starfleet-issue pillowcases!Image: ParamountAny good episodic TV series knows how to deal with often dramatic tone shifts that, in our era of heavily serialized programming, might seem tone-deaf or jarring. Star Trek, of course, is no exception to this having been episodic for so much of its 50+ year history—some weeks you fight god, some weeks the holodeck’s Moriarty replica is trying to gain sentience and break free. That’s Star Trek, and Strange New Worlds is more than…

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If you look up “fan favorite” in the dictionary, this is the image you will see.Screenshot: LucasfilmStar Wars is full of forgettable side characters that some people refuse to forget. From the man carrying an ice cream maker in Empire Strikes Back (who has a name, and it’s Willow Hood, for some reason) to my editor’s suggestions of Captain Fordo, Ooryl Qrygg, and Voort “Piggy” saBinring, there’s a lot to choose from. If there’s any franchise that has a larger, weirder, and over all stranger encyclopedia of obscure and…