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Chimps Show Remarkable Food-preparation and Combination Skills

Chimpanzees are on their way to becoming half-decent chefs! Captive chimps in Madrid have begun to puree their own fruits and vegetables, in what looks like the f...

Money-mad Monkeys

Six lucky Norwegian chimpanzees at a zoo in Copenhagen inherited 40,600 pounds this week ! The chimps, called Jimmy, Trunte, Fifi, Trine, Grine and Gigi, were lef...

World's First Mosquito Swatting Competition

A village in northern Italy is soon to hold the countries first ever mosquito-swatting contest ! 25 male contestants will be given 5 minutes to swat as many mozzi...

Russians Caught Stealing Carp From Fish Pond

Two Russians were picked up by Police in Kings Lynn this week for eating carp they caught from a lake in Hilgay, Norfolk. The two men had each paid 5 pounds for a...

You Are Not Allowed to Take Fish on Buses...and That Includes Fish in Plastic Bags Won at the Fairground

On the subject of fish, apparently rules dictate that anglers are not allowed to take their catches on public buses. However, a 5 year old Joseph Morgan and his g...

Mean Thieves Steal Rare Albino Lobster Specimen

Can you help find this missing lobster ? 15 year old albino lobster ‘Ariel’, so named because he is bright white, has gone missing from Newquay’s S...

Global Warming Leads to Detection of Unusual Species in the North Sea

Huge numbers of tiny mediterranean water fleas have been detected for the first time in the North Sea, joining sharks, giant sun-fish and warm-water corals. The f...

Scientists Develop a Chemical Nose Capable of Discriminating Real and Copycat Perfumes

A test for smells that can distinguish between real and counterfeit perfumes has been developed by chemists at the University of Illinois. To make the sensor, sci...

Runaway Snake Found in Hamster Cage - Thin Enough to Get In, But Too Fat to Get Out !

A happy ending and a not so happy ending for this lost animal now. Busta, a pet snake who went missing 8 months ago has been found safe and sound - in a nearby bl...

Why the Germans Look So Down in the Mouth

Do you know a grumpy german, or are you yourself a grumpy german ? Scientists think that may be able to explain why Germans are renowned for their poor sense of h...