A giant underpants-wearing, doughnut-waving Homer Simpson has been painted on the hill next to the famous 180ft carving of the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset. The painting, a promotional stunt for the upcoming Simpsons movie has upset some, and amused others. Pagans have condemned the stunt as disrespectful, and plan to perform “rain magic” to wash away the water-based biodegradable character. The landlord of the local pub the New Inn said it was different, but [...]

Preliminary results from DNA tests carried out on a mummy believed to be Queen Hatshepsut is expected to support the claim by Egyptian authorities that the remains are indeed those of Egypt’s most powerful female ruler. Egyptologists in Cairo announced last month that a tooth found in a wooden box associated with Hatshepsut exactly fitted the jaw socket and broken root of the unidentified mummy. Now, Dr Angelique Corthals, a biomedical Egyptologist at The University [...]

This has got to be one of the most bizarre stories to come out of Iraqi – a seriously weird, some have even said scary rumour has popped up, claiming giant man-eating badgers have been released by British troops in the port city or Basra. Several creatures have been caught and killed by locals, but have been identified by experts as nothing more than honey badgers, which are indigenous nocturnal carnivores that don’t attack humans [...]

On Tuesday 10th July a Giant Squid was fond washed up on Ocean Beach in Strahan, Tasmania. It measured 1 meter (3 feet) wide and 8 meters (28 feet) long from the top of its body to the end of its tentacles, and weighed approximately 550 pounds said Genefor Walker-Smith, a zoologist from the Tasmanian Museum. The giant squid, once believed to be a mythical creature, are deep-ocean dwelling animals that can grow to a [...]

Man, everything changes so quickly. I have been in France and Italy for the last two months with my girlfriend, travelling and exploring a part of the world that is right on our doorstep (I live in the UK just in case you didn’t know), yet for some reason we rarely visit. We had planed to stay away for longer, but unfortunately had to cut the trip short because our motorhome was broken into in [...]