SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — An Australian kookaburra bird is undergoing personal training after growing too fat to fly because she ate too many sausages. The kookaburra got into trouble with her weight when residents at a Sydney park began feeding her sausages at barbecues. The porky kookaburra weighed in at 565 grams (1.2 pounds), nearly 40 [...]
May 18, 2010
Scientists have discovered enormous plumes of oil in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, in an indication that the leak from an underwater well could be far worse than previously estimated, AFP reported Saturday citing The New York Times. One of the plumes was 10 miles (16 kilometers) long, three miles wide and [...]
November 26, 2009
The saga of Tammy the Turnpike Turkey may have a romantic epilogue. Finally captured at Exit 14B on the New Jersey Turnpike, Tammy may be pleased with her new home at the Popcorn Park Zoo in Lacy Township, New Jersey. That happy ending is a long way from the place Tammy had called home since [...]
November 26, 2009
REHOBOTH, Mass. – A Massachusetts woman is seeking donations from fellow pet lovers to help pay for eye surgery for her turkey named Jerry. Lyndsey Medeiros and her husband adopted three-year-old Jerry and another turkey from a Rhode Island farm last week. But Jerry has cataracts, and the eye problems mean he can’t eat independently [...]
November 8, 2009
A bird reportedly has dropped a “bit of baguette” onto the world’s largest atom smasher, causing the machine to short out for a period of time. It’s just the latest mishap for the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, which scientists plan to use to get insight into the universe’s origins. The LHC, which has a [...]
October 8, 2009
A post about a perky penguin seems fitting for our quirky compendium. Colonel-in-Chief Sir Nils Olav is a King Penguin living in Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. He is the mascot and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King’s Guard. Nils was visited by the Norwegian King’s Guard on the 15 August 2008 and awarded a knighthood. The honor [...]
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