It wasn’t all bad
■ A missing Texas woman was found miraculously alive inside a nearly submerged Jeep. The vehicle was first spotted by a fisherman at Lake o’ the Pines in Marion County, Texas. When a tow-truck driver was preparing the vehicle for removal, he saw the woman, who’d been reported missing some hours earlier. The woman was rescued and treated at a local hospital for hypothermia. The boat ramp that the Jeep drove down sits at the end of a long curved rural road, and police say the woman apparently made a wrong turn into the lake.
■ Murphy, a 31-year-old childless bald eagle at the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Mo., was trying to hatch a rock for weeks thinking it was an egg—male bald eagles sometimes incubate their young. So when the sanctuary took in an injured orphaned baby eaglet this month, he became the ideal candidate to become a foster parent. The keepers introduced the chick, named “Eaglet 23126,” into Murphy’s enclosure, and after a few days of getting to know each other, Murphy’s paternal drive was in full display. He answered the bird’s peeps and even tore a whole fish for him to eat. Murphy, said Dawn Griffard, the sanctuary’s chief executive, was “doing very well learning how to be a first-time dad.”
■ When an amateur treasure hunter discovered two pounds of gold in Jutland, Denmark, two years ago, archaeologists got to work decoding a 5th-century pendant found in the trove. Runologist Lisbeth Imer and linguist Krister Vasshus last month announced they’d successfully translated it: The pendant describes the god Odin, a full 150 years earlier than any other known reference. A “proto-Viking” king may have used the pendant as a sign of divine descent. Imer says the inscription is more worn than the rest of the pendant, likely because it was touched to gain power.