Scientist from a Chinese university have said 2 out of 11 piglets born from genetically altered cloned pigs have inherited the genes that make them glow fluorescent green under ultraviolet light.
The original glowing pigs were genetically altered by adding genetic material from jellyfish to help the study of stem cell research.
The scientists continue to […]

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 […]

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 […]

The mysterious sand circles found on the banks of the Rio Grande have turned out to be created by a local artist, and not the work of Aliens!
The work of art, called “Inner Sanctum”, was crafted by Michael Alford who said “Art is a mystery, but this mystery is man-made, not alien-made,” .
On hearing that […]

Reporting findings that help shape our understanding of how tool use has evolved among primates, researchers have discovered evidence that chimpanzees, at least under some conditions, are capable of habitually fashioning and using tools to hunt mammalian prey. The work, reported by Jill Pruetz of Iowa State University and Paco Bertolani of the University of […]

Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico said they trained honeybees to stick out their proboscis – the tube they use to feed on nectar – when they smell explosives in anything from cars and roadside bombs to belts similar to those used by suicide bombers.
By exposing the insects to the odour […]

There is news that there has been some ‘armed’ searches in Chile and Argentina for a hominoid creature said to be responsible for a spate of animal killings and attacks on humans.
The alleged creature, more commonly know as the Chupacabra is believed to be responsible for more than 200 animal mutilations, including some rather […]

As most of you will no-doubt be aware, yesterday was definitely Maine Mutant day!
Loren Coleman over at Cryptomundo has written up an impressive account of the days events, including local television comments, an email delude, international TV interviews, website overloads, speculation, gossip and t-shirts to name but a few.
And all for what? A new […]