WTF? Alien SoupLONDON (AFP) - A British mother could get into the record books after she gave birth to twins and a single baby at the same time — from two wombs — in what is believed to be a world first.
Hannah Kersey, 23, gave birth to the rare triplets — identical twins Ruby and Tilly, and [...]
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The world’s largest lizard has astonished biologists by being able to produce offspring by an “immaculate” conception without the help of a male. Two captive female Komodo dragons have had virgin births by a process called parthenogenesis, when an unfertilized egg develops into a normal embryo without being fertilized by a sperm.
The eggs of one [...]
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Julio Cesar Cu wanted to be an oceanographer but instead he swims through foul-smelling sewage in underground tunnels where the occasional dead body bobs beside excrement and car parts.
Paid just $400 a month to de-clog the miles of sewage tunnels running beneath the Mexican capital, diver Cu comes across the nastiest [...]
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(CBS/AP) An Indian runner who won a silver medal in the women’s 800-meter run at the Asian Games earlier this month has failed a gender test and is likely to be stripped of her medal, news reports said Monday.
Santhi Soudarajan, 25, was made to take the gender test in Doha, Qatar after her victory.
The test [...]
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SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) — A Brazilian businessman traveling in Germany watched by live video as a burglar robbed his house on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil.
Once police were alerted, they rushed to the house and arrested the robber as he was trying on his clothes.
The businessman, Joao Pedro Wettlauser, was [...]
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BY day Sandra Martinez works at a New York law firm, but by night she throws off her conservative image and becomes “Sandra Claws” - an amateur female jello wrestler.
At a grungy live music bar on New York’s Lower East Side, she joins 11 other women to do battle - several for the first time [...]
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Bottom Line: Well, whadda ya know? It looks like you can teach an old underdog new tricks.
First 007 gets back to basics, now, 30 years after the Italian Stallion came out swinging, Sylvester Stallone has returned to Rocky’s humble roots with an unplugged edition that emerges as one of this season’s more pleasant surprises.Dispensing with [...]
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ABC is shuffling its deck chairs once again, pulling both Wednesday newcomers “Show Me the Money” and “Day Break” from its schedule effective immediately.
In addition, production has been halted on “Money’s” back-six order. In total, just five of the show’s seven completed installments have aired.
Both “Money” and “Break” hit series lows this past Wednesday among [...]
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BEIJING, China (AP) — The long arms of the world’s tallest man reached in and saved two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs, state media and an aquarium official said Thursday.
The dolphins got sick after nibbling on plastic from the edge of their pool at an aquarium in Liaoning province.
Attempts to use surgical [...]
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…and yes, he did eat it! -Ed
FOND DU LAC, Wis. - Rick Lisko hunts deer with a bow but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway. The young buck had nub antlers — and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs. “It was definitely [...]
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