Vampire bats in Latin America are turning to cattle for their staple diet of blood, due to deforestation of their natural prays habitat.
Most forest clearing in South and Central America is for cattle grazing, and as a result, bats numbers have grown to take advantage of the larger prey.
Scientists have said said studies in area […]

This sounds very nasty indeed. Apparently an Australian woman has been killed by her pet camel after it tried to have sex with her!
This has to be a Fortean moment if ever I have heard of one. It’s just a shame that it is such an unfortunate story and my feeling are with the woman’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

The long search for Herod the Great’s tomb has ended with the exposure of the remains of his grave, sarcophagus and mausoleum on Mount Herodium’s north-eastern slope, Prof. Ehud Netzer of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology announced on Tuesday (8th May 2007).Herod was the Roman-appointed king of Judea from 37 to 4 […]

A commercial airline pilot from one plane and passengers from another have reported that they saw two bright yellow flat disc shapes, estimated to be twice the size of a Boeing 737, in the sky near Guernsey.
John Spencer, deputy chairman of the British UFO Research Association, said: “These types of sightings have been reported by […]

This weeks UFO Monday is actually on Tuesday! Sorry about that…
UFO or kids balloon?
Amateur photographer Ray Gilbert reckons he caught more than one flying object on camera when a Dakota aeroplane completed a flypast over Grantham Carnival on Saturday.
Read more: UFO Pictured in Carnival Flypast
Pensioner’s UFO plans scuppered
A pensioner went to the Appeal Court to […]

This is the second of our new UFO Mondays. A weekly round up of some lessor known news, reports and stories from around the globe.

[inspic=39,right,,0]A new type of hammerhead shark has been discovered in the north-western Atlantic Ocean.
The shark resembles a common scalloped hammerhead, but genetic studies have discovered that it is "cryptic" - that is, "genetically distinct" from the common scalloped species.
The yet to be classified or named shark, breed only in waters off South Carolina, although adults […]

[inspic=54,right,,thumb]Space Shuttle Discovery has been given the all clean for take off.
The US Space Agency has approved the changes to the fuel tank, which means Discovery could be good to go on the 1st July. Although an offical date will be releast ealy next week.
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Space Shuttle Discovery Readies itself for Launch
Shuttle fuel tank fit […]