Archive for July, 2008

White tiger mama replaced by golden retreiver

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

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. […]

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 […]

Octopus with 96 tentacles

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

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 […]

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 […]

Siamese-twin birds found

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

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 […]

Awesome photo: surfers and jumping shark

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

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 been […]

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 […]

77-yr-old granny holds off, pins down rabid fox

Friday, July 18th, 2008

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 ans […]

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 […]