A man has been charged with stealing three endangered iguanas from a nature preserve in Fiji and smuggling them into the United States in his prosthetic leg.
Jereme James, 33, faces a single count of smuggling, according to a federal indictment returned Friday in Los Angeles. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in […]

Despite periodic complaints about the animal as a pest, general public opinion towards squirrels is favorable, thanks to its agreeable appearance, intelligence and its eating styles and habits. Squirrels are arguably the most successful wild urban animal species. So let’s see how they do on this squirrel obstacle course.

Here are the missing body parts of 10 famous people.
John Wilkes Booth’s neck bones
John Wilkes Booth might have been a successful assassin, but he was a largely ineffectual escape artist.
Just 12 days after murdering President Abraham Lincoln, Booth was shot in the back of the neck and killed. His body was (eventually) buried in an […]

Israeli fighter pilots scrambled warplanes on Friday after radar spotted a potential airborne enemy flying from Syria only to discover the culprits were migratory birds, army radio reported.
Israeli radar picked up the birds over the Syrian border but officers were unable to rule them out as enemy aircraft from the screen, the radio said.
Tensions have […]

The Goodies battle Kitten Kong. This BBC channel TV series for kids is truly hilarious and the special effects are really inventive for the time.

Reality, today’s physicists tell us, is created by the vibrations of exquisitely tiny superstrings in ten spatial dimensions. Ten dimensions? Most of us have barely gotten used to the idea that there are four. Part scientific exploration, part philosophy, this unique view touches upon such diverse topics as dark matter, Feynman’s “sum over paths”, the […]

The sheep-pig hybrid found in Argentina is a pig with its own sheep fleece. Scientists are baffled by the strange swine, which they say is a pig “at heart” but with a woolly hide.
The one-year-old is being raised on a ranch near the town of Esquina, 400 miles north of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was […]

The eyeball tattoo really exists, and according to a tattoo specialist, it works in more or less the same way that you would get any other part of your body inked.
Along with two of his friends, Pauly Unstoppable and Josh, Shannon Larratt, founder and owner of body-modification website Bmezine.com, had the procedure done about four […]

Are you sick of pigeons crapping all over your pool or backyard? Are plastic owls not getting the job done? It might be time to try the motion activated sprinkler defense system.

Yahoo reported that the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos, since it was born 10 years ago.
On September 15, 1997 Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two 24 year-old Stanford University students, registered the domain […]