Sure people living in and around The Big Apple, New York, are used to seeing pigeons. And a lot of those pigeons are purple. But this particular purple pigeon was a lot more purple than the rest, and with good reason: it was cruelly painted that color!

The victimized bird was unable to fly because its feathers had all gone stiff, and was taken to a nearby wildlife rehab outfit.

Let’s hope this doesn’t start a trend.

Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer, two men from Georgia, USA claim that the above picture depicts the frozen corpse of the legendary Sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot.

The couple claim that they found the corpse in the woods in northern Georgia and kept it in a freezer for a month, after which they called a press conference and admitted that they wouldn’t mind making money off their “find”.

Later, and to no one’s surprise, the whole thing was proven a hoax.

Old story: Whale swims up alongside yacht.

New story: Baby whale swims up alongside yacht, without its mother.

Strangest Science News Blog story: Baby whale swims up alongside yacht and stays with it, mistaking it for its mother.

It all happened of the Sydney coast, and if a new pod isn’t found for the little guy, he or she is gonna get euthanized.

RNL Bio is the Seoul-based company that has fired the opening shot in the race to profit from nutty pet owners.

This week, RNL Bio released five pit bull puppies cloned form the dead dog of an American woman named Bernann McKinney.

The deceased canine who provided the DNA for this historic achievement bore the appropriately dignified moniker, “Booger”.

The smallest snake in all the world has been found, and it wasn’t the one in my pants after all.

Meet Leptotyphlops carlae, indigenous to the easternmost Caribbean island of Barbados, less than 4 inches (10 cm) long when fully grown, and for about 15 minutes, internet star.

The little guy was discovered by an evolutionary biologist from Penn State University named Blair Hedges, who, after realizing he had found a new species of snake, did what any regular guy would do and named it after his wife Carla.

When a white tigress at the Safari Zoological Park in Kansas, USA suddenly stopped caring for her three newborn cubs, park owner Tom Harvey brought in some special help: a golden retriever who had just finished weaning her own pups.

The plan worked, and the noble pooch adopted the tiger cubs as her own: nursing them. cleaning them and basically picking up where their biological mother left off.

If you happen to have a little extra room in your life… you might want to make a lot of room for one not-so-little kitty who’s up for adoption.

Her name’s Princess Chunk: 44 pounds of feline tubbiness looking for a home. The current world record stands at a little over 46 pounds, though Guinness World Record officials have discontinued the category in fear of pet owners harming their cats in an attempt to break the record.

Princess was found wandering around Voorhees, New Jersey and is currently in a pet shelter awaiting adoption.

In Japan’s Shinma Marine Aquarium is a preserved specimen of a Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) with 96 tentacles. yes, 96 tentacles. How did that many arms fit onto its body? Think of it as a really bad case of split ends, only with tentacles.

The monster octopus lived in the aquarium for five months and gave birth to normal young. Scientists think the extra graspers were due to an aberration in the mollusc’s self-regeneration abilities.

And yet it would seem to be an honest to goodness trend.

Fish pedicures, is what it is.

You dip your toes into a small fish-tank, where a school of small carp, called doctor fish (you don’t expect them to be called mortician fish or anything, do you?) nibble on the dry and unwanted little bits of flesh on your little piggies.

Yum.

These two barn swallows are conjoined twins, joined at the hip by skin and possibly tissue. They fell out of a nest and were found by a landowner in White County. On of them later died and the other was euthanized.

Unfortunately for the birds, they wouldn’t have stood a chance in the wild even if they were separated, because they never learned to fly.