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Thursday, June 21st, 2007A two-headed snake named “We,” the main attraction at the World Aquarium, has died. The 8-year-old rat snake died of natural causes during the weekend, said caretaker Leonard Sonnenschein. Most two-headed snakes survive for only a week or two. “It’s terrible news,” Sonnenschein said. “People come in every day and say: ‘I’m here to see […]
Blind boy leads rugby team
Thursday, June 21st, 2007Schoolboy Sam Wishart has become captain of his local rugby team despite being nearly blind. The 11-year-old has a rare condition which means he has to wear very dark, tinted lenses, reports the Daily Mirror. He cannot make out colours and struggles to see in bright light. But it has not stopped him being made […]
Flowers grow from steel
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007A Chinese man has reportedly found flowers growing from a steel pipe in his vegetable garden. Grandpa Ding told Sohu News: “I was cleaning the pipes, then my hand touched something fluffy.” Ding says he was surprised to see the patch of tiny white flowers growing on the smooth steel.
“The stems are slimmer […]
8-Foot Alligator Removed From Basement
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007Reptile experts removed an 8-foot-long, 170-pound alligator from the basement of a Buffalo home and planned to drive it to a Florida sanctuary in the back of a minivan.
“Jojo” the alligator was removed Sunday from the home where it was raised after its owner called the state Department of Environmental Conservation and said he could […]
Baby Monitor Picks Up Video From NASA
Thursday, June 14th, 2007A mother of two in this suburb of Chicago doesn’t have to turn on the news for an update on NASA’s space mission. She just flips on her baby monitor. Since Sunday, Natalie Meilinger’s baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the space shuttle Atlantis.
“Whoever has a baby monitor knows what you’ll […]
Rare Blue Lobster Avoids the Cooker
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007Call it crustacean discrimination. A lobster caught last weekend by Steve Hatch and his uncle Robert Green was spared from being cooked and ripped apart on a plate because of its color.
The 1 1/2-pound clawed creature is bright blue, the result of an extremely rare genetic mutation.
It turned up Sunday morning in one of Hatch […]
Man Leaves Finger Behind After Bar Brawl
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007A man who lost part of his finger in a bar brawl walked out of the pub and down the street before he noticed it was gone, police said Monday.
“He didn’t know it was missing until he left the (pub),” police Inspector Mark Kellert told The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. “He was out on the […]
Dog has kitten
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007A dog has become a local celebrity in a Chinese village after she reportedly gave birth to a kitten. Hua Chengpeng, of Huayang village, Jiangyan city, told People’s Daily that the unlikely animal was the third ‘puppy’ in his pet’s litter.
“The first two puppies the dog produced were both normal, but when the third […]
Green blood shocker
Friday, June 8th, 2007Surgeons operating on a man were shocked to find he had green blood.
Tests showed he had taken too many of a headache pill called sumatriptan.
He was diagnosed a rare condition in which sulphur from the sumatriptan combined with the blood’s haemoglobin to change its colour.
The 42-year-old smoker had needed an operation on his leg to […]
Man Pinned Under Tree Amputates His Leg
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Alone in the woods with his left leg pinned beneath a fallen tree for 11 hours, a 66-year-old man used pocket knives to cut off his limb below the knee to free himself, a neighbor and authorities said.
Al Hill had been cutting trees last Friday when one fell on him. After freeing himself, he cried […]