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They say an elephant never forgets - The owners and guests of a luxury lodge at a National park in Zambia can certainly testify to that. Every November for about six weeks, the lodge is visited by a herd of elephants that zip right past the reception and head straight to the mango groves....

Though this turtle looks like it's ready to go partyyyyyyy, the green stuff growing out of its head is not dyed hair, but green algae. If that sounds unusual, its because you are looking at a Mary River Turtle, one of the most unique reptiles on Earth....

For the past few months, residents of the town of Stourbridge, West Midlands in the United Kingdom, have been waking up to a pleasant surprise. Empty milk bottles with beautiful farm animals etched into the glass. However, just like Santa, nobody had seen or knew who this kind samaritan and amazing artist was......until now....

Hundreds of runners, all donned in gorilla suits took to the streets of London this weekend, to participate in the sixth annual, 7km Great Gorilla Run, a charity event to help endangered mountain gorillas. This year's record turnout of 735 people, one for every mountain gorilla alive, aimed to raise $400,000 USD to help preserve the dwindling population of this majestic animal....

Two geologists believe they have discovered what could be the world's oldest rocks near the Eastern shores of Hudson Bay in North Quebec. Jonathan O'Neil from McGill University and Richard Carlson from Carnegie Institution of Washington say that tests conducted on the rocks from this region, indicate that they could be as old as 4.28 billion years old, only 300,000 years younger than the Earth....

If British inventor Mijevic Miroslav has his way, a bike ride will no longer evoke memories of grinding up steep hills. Instead it will be as easy as pushing the gas pedal in a car, except for the fact that the Cycle Sol is solar powered....

Swiss Adventurer Yves Rossy, also known as Jetman or Fusionman, made history this morning by flying across the English Channel with just a jet-propelled wing on his back. Yves, who had to postpone the flight twice this week due to bad weather, soared across the skies at about a 100 mph on a beautiful fall afternoon, completing the 22-mile journey in just 13 minutes....

Since 1994, Bill Dan has been wowing the residents of San Francisco, California and the neighboring city of Sausalito with his amazing rock 'art' - if that's what one could call balancing different sizes of rocks on top of each other....

When we think of lobsters, we always imagine them to be red. However, did you know that lobsters could be blue, yellow or even white? Admittedly they are rare though - Blue lobsters are one in two million, yellow - one in thirty million and white, even rarer - one in one hundred million....