Birds have always tweeted, but now they’re also doing it in 140 characters or less.

Bill Oddie, an expert on avian language, is translating birds’ tweets at the London Zoo and sending them out over Twitter.

“Every bird has a bit of a vocabulary,’’ he said.

One, he deduced, wanted to hook up with a female.

So Oddie tweeted, “That Red Billed Toucan was calling for a girlfriend. Sounds to me like he’s shouting for some company.’’

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Speaking of talented birds, a San Francisco seagull has shot a video that would make a pro proud.

French tourist Nathalie Rollandin was filming a spectacular sunset when the bird swooped down and stole her camera.

It took off at just the right angle to get a perfect shot.

Then it landed and dropped the camera.

It’s a “San Francisco sunset I will hardly forget,’’ Rollandin said.

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An Ohio woman has built what she says is the world’s biggest yo-yo: It’s 15 feet wide and weighs 7,300 pounds.

She’s long sought a Guinness record, and over the years had ups and downs.

But her latest device worked perfectly over the weekend in Cincinnati.

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Who says the gold rush in Nevada ended in the 1800s?

A recluse near Carson City died last spring, leaving $7 million in gold bars and coins in his house.

Only one relative, a cousin, could be found. She was so shocked, all she could say was, “Oh, my God! Oh, my God!’’

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There’s a new breed of dogs of war.

The Marines are testing a four-legged robot that looks like a pooch and can carry 400 pounds for 20 miles.

“We want a radio operator to be able to tell it to ‘sit,’ ‘stay,’ ” said Lt. Joe Hitt of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. “Likewise, the robot could tell them, ‘I’m stuck.’ ’’