Pink elephants on the march!

Fossils of Australopithecine's cousins

Rare black fox run over and killed days after being spotted

Top tip: when dealing drugs, door-to-door may not be the safest sales strategy

The imaginary monsters of US cities

Four-kilo rats are loose on the Florida Keys

Domesticated cows traced to original herd of just 80

Remains of western Europe's earliest known stringed instrument found

Exploding dinosaur theory is now in pieces

Africa's Great Rift Valley may have taken longer to form than had been believed

Bird range movements aren't keeping up with climate change

Latest Bugarach UFO clip

Stolen parrot with a repertoire of Queen hits

A six-legged calf in Switzerland

New York City Education Department's list of banned words

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