Weird News

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Mastodon teeth clacked anew in Greece, a Kenyan boy was among many wounded by arrows, China unveiled a bubbly Olympic swim center, and more.

February 1, 2008
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A hen in a small Mexican village has become a celebrity—it lays eggs with green shells. A chicken's genes determines its shell color.

January 30, 2008
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The first wearable lens embedded with nano-size circuitry was unveiled this month and may one day be able to overlay displays on a person's field of view, researchers say.

January 29, 2008
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A New York state archivist faces up to 25 years in prison for stealing historical artifacts and selling some on eBay to pay off bills and his daughter's credit card splurges.

January 29, 2008
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An unusual tradition has developed in the West African country of Ghana: making unique, colorful coffins for the dead.

January 28, 2008
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A man with milk jars pierced to his back, a boy with a blazing tire, and Gazans fleeing by horse are among the newsmakers of the past week.

January 25, 2008
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Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson and aerospace designer Burt Rutan debuted a model of a ship planned to carry commercial passengers on a suborbital joyride within a few years.

January 24, 2008
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A female leatherback sea turtle made the longest recorded migration of any sea vertebate—just to reach prime jellyfish feeding grounds off Oregon.

January 24, 2008
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Giant salamanders and other vulnerable amphibians will receive conservation attention and aid through a new program run by the Zoological Society of London.

January 22, 2008
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The six-story-tall plant recently discovered in Madagascar self-destructs by producing hundreds of thousands of flowers at once—a "truly spectacular" sight, says one scientist.

January 17, 2008
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Some parasitic worms spread by transforming their ant hosts into "berries" that attract foraging birds, according to a new study.

January 16, 2008
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A roundworm turns its ant hosts into red-berry look-alikes to entice birds to swoop in and spread the parasites far and wide, scientists say.

January 16, 2008
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See the world's largest known rodent—and the prehistoric beast's closest living cousin.

January 16, 2008
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The prehistoric "rat" had huge teeth, a new study says, and the animal likely competed with saber-toothed cats and giant, flightless, meat-eating birds.

January 16, 2008
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The massive land animals were killed off by illnesses and parasites, say the authors of a new book who looked at disease-carrying insects trapped for millions of years in amber.

January 15, 2008

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