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December 8, 2023
When addressing their calves, female bottlenose dolphins use high-pitched "baby talk."
December 7, 2023
When infected by a parasite, a species of Japanese sea slug can sever its head and regrow a new body, including vital organs.
December 6, 2023
Researchers have successfully used AI to predict hit songs with a 97% accuracy rating!
December 5, 2023
The Swiss canton of Fribourg offers 100 bottles of wine to residents on their 100th birthday.
December 4, 2023
A year after losing his right leg in a climbing accident, Zsolt Eross of Hungary scaled the 27,940-foot-tall Lhotse Peak in the Himalayas using a prosthetic leg.
Art & Fashion
Meet the "Fish-Caster," a custom Telecaster with a real, preserved piranha sealed in resin!
Food
A hungover stockbroker, a lust-fighting minister, and a maître d' whose cook went missing—meet the real people hiding on your menu.
People
A dad from Riverside, Illinois, spent 130 hours turning wine corks into a wearable flotation suit!
Take things to the next level! Ripley’s twentieth edition annual book is full of all-new, all-true stories from around the world.
August 14, 2026
Venice was built on wooden piles driven deep into the mud, acting like stilts to support the city.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.
