That’s a lot of cold, hard cash.

A new Marist poll says more than a quarter of Americans stash their dough in the freezer, while 11 percent prefer to stuff their assets into their mattresses.

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This kid is really for the birds.

Zoo officials are on the hunt for a Seattle-area boy who spotted an apparently abandoned egg in a penguin exhibit at the Woodland Park Zoo and gave workers a heads-up.

The egg was rescued and given to a pair of feathered foster parents, who nursed it until it hatched on April 5.

The child flew the coop before workers could properly thank him and now want to locate him.

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This will surely be a moooooooving tale.

Hollywood is going to bring the story of Yvonne the German cow to the big screen in an animated tale about the bovine beauty who fled slaughter last year for a life of freedom.

Yvonne escaped capture for three months, managing to steer clear of hunters and helicopters as she roamed the Bavarian countryside.

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The Eiffel Tower is for sale in Paris — but not without a permit.

Police in the City of Light arrested a family that was caught hawking 13 tons of trinket towers to tourists without a permit.

The family, which owns a souvenir shop, was allegedly raking in $1.31 million in illicit profits from the venture.

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Maybe Mother Nature didn’t like this bloke’s fashion sense.

A 19-year-old British man who bought an umbrella-shaped novelty hat topped with a metal spike says he was struck twice by lightning while carrying it.

Matt Wilks claims he was struck by the first bolt from the blue in his mom’s garden, and the next jolt slammed into his 6-foot-4 frame as he slogged across a field during a storm.