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Goat has six horns, which, human experts say, is very rare. No wonder the bugger is so smug and proud.
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ATLANTA — Two men claim they’ve bagged Bigfoot, and they say they have the hairy corpse of the legendary creature stored away in a freezer.
Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer say they stumbled across the corpse in the woods of northern Georgia, across the country from the remote regions of the Northwest where people usually claim [...]

More hairless mice goodness.

You’ve seen the dramatic chipmunk prairie dog. Now here’s the feline version.

The giant water bug Belostomatidae’s deeply charming way of reproduction goes like this:
Males attract the females doing a series of periodic movements near water surface generating ripples in the water known as display pumping. Before a female begins ovipositing the eggs, she mates with the male. Then a series of intercalated matings and ovipositions occur, [...]

Everyone now calls this weird shit the “Montauk Monster“. We still call it “goat sex gone horribly wrong.” And we’re doing a countdown till someone steps forward and admits this is one of those viral marketing things some clever bullshit-peddlers love doing.

But apparently, there are three witnesses willing to say fascinating things about it, so [...]

Because individuals are presumably locally rare and encounters doubly so, finding a mate is problematic. When scientists first started capturing ceratioid anglerfish, they noticed that all of the specimens were females. These individuals were a few inches in size and almost all of them had what appeared to be parasites attached to them. It turned [...]

This is an actual monster, some sort of rodent-like creature with a dinosaur beak. A tipster says that there is “a government animal testing facility very close by in Long Island,” but unless the government is trying to design horrible Montauk monsters that will eat IEDs and fart fire at bad Iraqis, we’re not sure [...]

A piglet recently born in China looks more like a monkey than Mommy Piggie. Of course, the curious locals wanted to say to pig owner Feng Changlin that the hideous thing uncannily resembles him, but that won’t be polite now, would it?

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Subterranean-dwelling reptile the ajolote from Mexico has two front legs, scales arranged in rings, and looks “wormy” even in its best angle.

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