A purported wooly mammoth has been spotted in Siberia, but skeptics say it’s just a bear carrying a fish. The fishy footage was captured by government-employed engineer Michael Cohen, who just happens to be a paranormal writer. Derek Serra, a Hollywood video-effects artist who has previously analyzed faked UFO videos, says the video appears to have been intentionally blurred in order to obscure the animal’s true identity. “Even low-resolution cameras

Talk about sloppy police work, Vermont State Police have been driving around for years with decals that feature a cow with a large pig-shaped spot. The decals were ordered in 2009 from the Northwest State Correctional Facility, where an intrepid inmate altered the image. Public Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn says he can see the humor but “If the person had used some of that creativeness, he or she would not

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is once again using scantily-clad women to draw attention to animal abuse. The animal rights group has preregistered the domain www.Peta.xxx, a top-level domain intended for adult websites. “A lot of organizations were gun shy about the triple-x domain, but when PETA saw it we thought this would be triple-extra effective,” says Lindsay Rajt, director of campaigns for PETA. The website will

Animal Control in Jefferson County, Colorado will be encouraging residents to pick up after their dogs by clearing up The Myth of the Poop Fairy. The campaign runs from July 9 -17 during which volunteers wearing blue “Poop Fairy” T-shirts will greet patrons of local parks to break the news to them that “There is no poop fairy.” The Poop Fairy joins the annals of PSA mascots such as: Smokey

It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a century since the video sharing website, Youtube, debuted. To celebrate they’ve uploaded the Top 5 Viral Pictures of 1911, which proves the more things change the more they stay the same. Apparently even back then people were getting RickRolled, poorly animating fruit, dressing their cats up as musicians, and just generally making fools of themselves for the amusement of others. YouTube

Researchers at Harvard have reversed the aging process in mice. First they prematurely aged the mice by genetically engineering out telomerase, an enzyme that creates protective caps on the end of DNA strands called telomeres. The mice suffered from a variety of age-related afflictions such as testes reduced in size and depleted of sperm, atrophied spleens, damage to the intestines, and shrinkage of the brain along with an inability to

At least it’s not for the animals at Allwetter Zoo in Muenster, Germany. A pair of male vultures has been separated after months of living together. One of the vultures will be shipped off to a Czech zoo to mate. The curator, Dirk Wewers, defends the separation saying, “They weren’t happy as a gay couple anyway. The other vultures picked on them and stole their nest materials.&#

Children can be cruel, especially to their toys. “These creatures cannot defend themselves. They cannot run away only escape. Insanity is there there only escape,” explains Dr. Kindermann of The Asylum – Psychiatric Clinic for Abused Cuddly Toys (parapluesch.com). The German toymaker calls the toys therapeutic. “Children and grown ups like their vulnerability and find something in them that gives them a great sense of comfort in helping to heal

Commercial disclaimers are the fine print at the bottom of the TV screen that tries to dissuade you from mimicking what you see with phrases like “professional driver,” “closed course,” “dramatization,” “fictionalization,” “do not attempt,” or “don’t try this at home.” But sometimes these warnings are for things that no one would, or even could, do. Not surprisingly, they usually appear in American commercials, home of the lawsuit. The following

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is claiming victory after Dodge digitally removed the chimpanzee (but not its clothes) from its new “Tent Event” commercial. “And just like that, Dodge joins Travelers Insurance, AT&T, and Europcar, companies that have pulled or altered ads with great apes in just the last month after being contacted by PETA,” said PETA. Ironically, one of their complaints was that these apes are

In a world populated by animals, rabbits Packy and Botasky combat camel terrorists in the Middle East as part of special forces unit known as Cat Shit One. The animation doesn’t just look great, it feels spot on. The characters’ movements are almost too realistic. Packy and Botasky move just like you’d expect rabbits walking on their hind legs to move, waddling back and forth on their big floppy feet. 

According to the Chinese newspaper People’s Daily, “Taliban forces have taught monkeys how to use the Kalashnikov, Bren light machine gun and trench mortars. They also teach them how to identify and attack soldiers wearing U.S. military uniforms.” The Taliban isn’t worried about accusations of animal cruelty though. In fact, they’re counting on it. “If a person who loves animals knows the monkeys may be injured in the war, they

Scientists have discovered 123 new species of animals, insects and plants in the Heart of Borneo, a protected region since 2007. Among them is the green and yellow colored Ibycus rachelae, dubbed the “Ninja Slug.” The name isn’t derived from its stealthiness but rather from its martial arts style of love making. The Ninja Slug shoots its mate with “love darts” made of calcium carbonate and spiked with hormones that

Chris Packham, host of BBC’s Springwatch, has caused pandemonium among conservationists with his suggestion that we “pull the plug” on the panda. He calls it a “T-shirt animal” that consumes more than just bamboo. “Unfortunately, it’s big and cute and a symbol of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and we pour millions of pounds into panda conservation,” said Packham in an interview with the Radio Times. Money that

Floating in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northern coast is a mysterious oily substance of monstrous proportions (13 miles by 1/4 mile) that is consuming all marine life in its path. Analysis reveals that despite its appearance it’s not an oil spill but an unknown type of algae. However anyone who’s ever seen Creepshow 2 knows exactly what this thing is – The Blob!