Archive for the 'Strange & Funny News' Category

Bigfoot corpse or gorilla suit?

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

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 […]

Mama, is that you?

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

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 […]

This baby’ll make geomancers flip

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Numerologists, geomancers, feng shui practitioners and other soothsayer types were probably beside themselves with delight when the news came out Hailey Jo Hauer, a baby whose birth was loaded with the number eight.
Born at 8:08 a.m. on August 8, 2008 (8/8/08), Hauer weighed 8 pounds, eight ounces.
8 is considered a lucky number by many. And […]

Koreans ready for commercial mass-production… of dogs

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

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 […]

World’s smallest snake!

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

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 […]

Anyone want a 44-pound cat?

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

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 […]

This new foot care procedure sounds fishy to me.

Friday, July 25th, 2008

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 […]

This honey tastes like duct tape

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

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 by an alarm it had […]

Bigfoot hunter offers services on Ebay

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

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 you’re […]

Lucky, the world’s toughest koala

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

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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 Wildlife Hospital. He is […]