Photographer Kem Mc Nair was taking photographs of surfers at New Smyrna Beach in Florida, USA when, by pure chance, he captured this startling image. In the picture are two surfers in the water, while behind them a spinner shark leaps out of the water, seemingly just at the spot where one of them had [...]
A young adult black bear broke into a Circuit City electronics store in Colorado, USA yesterday. Explain. It was checking out the HD plasma TV sets. It was looking for a job as store mascot. It couldn’t wait for the iPhone 3G. It loves the taste of circuit board It bear was later scared off [...]
Avis Blakeslee was tending her flower garden when she was attacked by a wild fox. Despite receiving seven leg and arm wounds, she clamped the fox’s mouth shut and held it down on the ground until help arrived. The animal was shot by Blakeslee’s teenage son. After four days in hospital, Blakeslee was sent home [...]
For hundreds of years, Bigfoot has eluded those trying to find him. But who would’ve known that conclusive proof of Bigfoot’s existence was just an Ebay account and a mouse click away? So claims Ebay seller “tpeterson6969″, whose is offering his Sasquatch-finding expertise up for auction on the merchant website. Starting bid is $150,000 if [...]
t Old story: wandering koala bear gets hit by a speeding car. New story: koala’s head goes through the grille and is dragged for seven miles in that position. Strangest Science News blog story: Koala survives and is mostly unscathed. The eight-year old Aussie marsupial, not surprisingly named Lucky, is currently recovering at the Australian [...]
When Gaye Hurst opened the box of an oxygen generator she’d purchased to use for glass blowing, she thought that two of hoses inside the box looked strange. Upon closer inspection, it turned out they weren’t hoses at all but a couple of rat snakes! The company that sold her the oxygen generator, Unlimited Oxygen, [...]
The annual World’s Ugliest Dog, uh, pageant(?), has been the go-to place for all sorts of proud canine anti-aesthetics. And this year’s competition was no different. From the throng of hopefuls emerged Gus, pictured above. Gus is a pedigree Chinese crested with three legs, one eye, hairless skin except for a tuft on his forehead, [...]
If you remember, a while back we posted an entry about Beauty, the bald eagle who got most of her beak shot off by a hunter. Happily, she recently got fitted with a prosthetic beak replacement, which has helped her drink and feed more easily. It’s only a prototype beak, though, and a final version [...]
This curious creature is not the product of a Photoshopping project–it’s a real live Roe deer with a single horn in the middle of its forehead, just like the legendary unicorn. The deer, aptly named Unicorn, was born in captivity inside a research park in Prato, Italy. The single horn is thought to be due [...]
Hundreds of beachgoers at the Isle of Palms in South Carolina, USA got a little more excitement than they probably expected when they were called out of the water because of a six-foot long American crocodile wandering around the beach. The croc was later trapped by wildlife officials. It likely escaped or was released by [...]