Real stories from today's newspaper:

* The photo on the page was of a Palestinian man trying to stuff a live sheep into the trunk of his car, in preparation for Eid al-Adha.

* Turkish vets have established a hotline and a special bull-catching unit to roundup rampaging animals during Eid al-Adha.

* An infertile lioness has such a strong maternal instinct that she has snatched newborn impalas and tried to tend them as her own babies. They have died, seemingly of stress.

* An estimated 12,000,000 king crabs are migrating from the Russian Arctic westward into the Atlantic. Reasons for the crustacean population explosion are unknown.

Watch your toes on the beach!

There's a lot of $#!+ like that in a very unbelievable magazine called Weekly World News. One story I read had 'Millions of Killer Jellyfish Attack Northern California' as a headline. Of course, as I suspected when I read this, it came out around the time of their migration period. Sounds a lot like your story, Rallymama.

Who knows? :roll: These stories all have a Reuters byline, BTW. The one about the crabs mentions a failed Stalin-era experiment where they brought in crabs from the pacific. Apparently these are their descendents.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :hahaerr: !!

I read the one about the infertile lioness in a science magazine. I felt really sorry for her until I read that she often ends up eating her adopted "children" after they die!

Well, you wouldn't want good, tasty meat to go to waste now would you?

From today's paper:

A University of Florida shark monitoring study shows that the number of shark attacks has ben declining each year since 2000, along with the economy. The director of the International Shark Attack File thinks there may be a correlation to a decline in tourism because of the economy.

i thought i saw this years ago in David Letterman,

Sharks don't kill, they just bite a huge chunk out of you.

(like that is going to be helpful)

Sharks don't actually like the taste of humans (too bony?) lol. Anyway they only bite because they're curious, then they leave you alone

Latest contribution:

An octopus named Frieda in a German zoo has learned how to open jars. Zookeepers had repeatedly opened jars underwater where she could see until she made the connection. She opens the jars by positioning her entire body over the lid, grasping the sides with her suckers and tentacles, and twisting her body to wrench the lid free.

Like Dave Barry, I am NOT making this up!