New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Chris Perez, Wires

It’s enough to make Mona Lisa blush.

Experts at the Louvre museum in Paris on Thursday revealed Leonardo da Vinci may have also painted a topless version — called Joconde Nue — of the famed masterpiec­e.

A scientific study of the charcoal work found that it could be Da Vinci’s preparator­y drawing for a naked Mona Lisa.

A New Jersey woman told Walmart workers her 8-year-old granddaugh­ter was missing inside the store — as a distractio­n to enable her son to swipe clothes and candy, cops said.

Donna Hall, 58, and son Nicholas, 30, were busted for creating a false public alarm and other charges Tuesday for the alleged ruse.

For their sake, let’s hope they have their papers.

Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea creatures have washed ashore in the US after hitching a ride across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami.

Researcher­s say it’s the largest and longest marine migration ever documented — and warn that if the critters survive, they may push out native species in Washington state, Oregon, California, Alaska and Hawaii.

An Ohio sheriff ’s deputy was able to track down an armed suspect this week by shooting his car with a GPS-tracking dart.

The man was arrested after stop sticks were deployed to flatten tires on his car, police said.

Lucas County authoritie­s have deployed the new gizmo as a way to avoid accidents and potentiall­y dangerous pursuits. Meanwhile, in Ireland . . . A gorilla’s arm washed up on a County Clare beach last week — and experts have no idea from where it came.

The giant limb was found by a local resident in the small coastal town of Kilkee.

County officials say they are keeping the “highly unusual discovery” on ice until they can learn its origin.

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