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Here is our pet, a Sugar Glider. His name is Rocky (short for Rocket), and he is almost 6 months old. Since joining our family, he is always traveling along with one of us in our shirts or in a pouch. He is a loving member of our family. Sugar Gliders are native to Australia and are related to the Koala bear. Our family had been looking for just the right pet since my husband, Andy, is allergic to cats and dogs. I had looked into small animals that you would find at your local pet store, but they either...

A 6-foot alligator showed up at the front door of a Super 8 Motel on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. A motel employee said the alligator bit a guest. About 4 p.m., the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to a call about an alligator at the motel at 821 North Lobdell Highway, Sheriff Mike Cazes said. The gator bit one of the motel guests who tried to catch it before Animal Control workers showed up, said Matt Marszal, the motel’s front desk clerk.

Jakarta’s weird kid of alternative rock Zeke Khaseli is planning a party this weekend, and it looks set to be out of this world. The eccentric musician’s much-awaited second album, “Fell in Love With the Wrong Planet,” will be launched with a show on Friday night at the Goethe Institut in Central Jakarta. The show is being billed as an album launch, but also a “mini-exhibition.” On display will be photographs, art installations and video works that aim to bring visitors into Zeke’s “psychedelic universe,” publicist Maya said. “You’d better be ready to be part of the experience.” The highlight...

An Indian boy who lost his mother in 1986 has found her 25 years later from his new home in Tasmania - using satellite images. Saroo was only five years old when he got lost. He was travelling with his older brother, working as a sweeper on India's trains. "It was late at night. We got off the train, and I was so tired that I just took a seat at a train station, and I ended up falling asleep." That fateful nap would determine the rest of his life. "I thought my brother would come back and wake me...

It may take explosives to dislodge the frozen carcasses of a small herd of cows found in an old ranger's cabin high in the Rocky Mountains.

A 1792 Silver Center penny is being auctioned off Thursday night and online bidding is already at $1.15 million, according to Heritage Auctions. The penny is one of the first coins struck at the U.S. Mint, according to Todd Imhof of Heritage Auctions. It is one of only 14 known surviving silver-center cent pieces. It is made of copper with a small silver plug in the center. The Silver Center pieces were an experiment made in 1792 when the newly created U.S. Mint had specific requirements for the size and weight of pennies, Imhof said. Silver was placed in the...

Apparently, the magnetic shifts in the Sun mimic those that occurred during the mini-Ice Ages of the 17th century, reports the Japanese Astronomical society. They also claim that this is the reason for the "halting" in the progress of global warming. Basically the sun's magnetic field has shifted from a straight N-S configuration - to a N-Equator Equator-S, 4 pole configuration This supposedly occurred during the 17/18th century and was responsible for the mini Ice Age.

Way before Adam Sandler did wacky comedy movies opposite himself, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were the reigning goofball team of 1950s cinema. Well, I just dug up a book about the singer/shticker duo by Arthur Marx (son of Groucho), and it points to some real affection that lurked beneath the animosity that ultimately broke them up. Martin and Lewis, asserts Marx, had "the kind of chemistry that makes for a real love affair." "The feelings the two of them had for each other during the early days of their romance," he writes, "no doubt stemmed from nothing more than...

Real-life Futurama tube-transport will catapult you from New York to Beijing in 2 hours The Simpsons have the monorail. Futurama has the Tube Transport System. The difference is that tube-transport is a fantasy — at least for now. The folks at ET3 want to make what they call "Evacuated Tube Transport" a reality. Their proposed maglev system would be capable of propelling six-person-capacity cylinders to speeds of over 4000 miles per hour, making it possible for people to travel from New York to L.A. in just 45 minutes, or from New York to Beijing in two hours. What's more, ET3...

Thomas Beatie, who gained fame as the world's first known legal man to give birth, has split from his wife of nine years. Beatie revealed the breakup with Nancy during a taping of the syndicated TV show The Doctors in which he also said he had undergone a final female-to-male gender reassignment surgery. Beatie began life as a woman and legally switched to a male identity, while preserving his female reproductive organs. He made headlines in 2007 after pictures of his bearded face and pregnant belly became public.

The Salem witch tragedy of 1692 took less than two years to play out. Yet 300 years later, explanations for how and why it happened are still coming. One theory recently gaining exposure thanks to bloggers comes from a 2004 college thesis that places the blame on something we think of as a strictly modern phenomenon: climate change. Proposed in a Harvard thesis, the paper by economist Emily Oster has earned attention due to the modern swirl of controversy surrounding the possibility that human interaction has altered world temperatures. Currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, Oster linked...

10 Weapons That Animals Use We've come a long way from thinking that what separates us from the animals is, say, using a rock to bash in the skull of our competitors. It turns out that there are a lot of creatures out that that re-purpose tools to make their personal world better and someone else's world a lot worse. Take a look at the world's craziest and most intimidating weapons wielded by animals. 10. The Herring Gull's Bread This bird has learned how to use bread to construct a trap. Herring gulls live in large colonies in the urban...

Have you tried the new fusion cusine Man-Dog, that’s sweeping the sidewalks of international capital? Welcome toChez Obama Man-Dog Where a side of Man can share a dinner plate with his best friend Serving classic North White American male specialties, special variety of canine species Today’s specials *Guantanamo-raised free range white North American male raised on forced-fed socialist diet flash–roasted Islamic suicide bomb-style, barbecued cubes of man flesh on open pit of incendiary Bible flame *Northeastern capitalist pig male American male 100% pure socialist propaganda fed diet served Chef Obama-style on open pit flame of burning US Constitution parchment flame...

FULL TITLE: Men pay price for not reading instructions on hair removal cream as review pages detail painful genital experiences Men attempting to remove hair from their genitals have found that the process is not as straightforward as they may have thought. For many women, learning to cope with the pain of hair removal is something they take in their stride. But for men, the basics of preening don’t always come so easily - judging by some of the unfortunate experiences documented in reviews of a new hair removal cream.

The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly available government data from 2009....

A Kentucky man is facing a misdemeanor rap after he siphoned gasoline from a police car, a theft that came to the attention of cops after the perp posted a Facebook photo memorializing the crime. As seen in the above photo (click to enlarge), as Michael Baker, 20, was swiping the gas last month from a Jenkins Police Department squad car, he made sure to flip the bird as his girlfriend snapped a picture.

Police arrested a 66-year-old man in Palembang, South Sumatra on Tuesday for keeping eight pills of ecstasy under his bed. The man is currently detained at the police’s headquarters in the province’s capital. Zaini, who claimed himself to be a “professional psychic”, claimed that the drugs labeled "Pink Love" belonged to one of his patients. “I don’t know the name of my patient, he asked me to keep them for a while. I didn't know that it was drugs, so I kept it under my mattress,” said Zaini, who has eight grandchildren. Aside from Zaini, the region’s anti-drugs agency arrested...

Talk about innovation at gun-point. A Kashmiri farmer, with no formal education but a quirky habit of sleeping naked, found an novel way to escape the embarrassment of getting caught with his pants down. Gulam Mohammad Mir of Anantnag, J&K, developed a 'singing lantern' that warned him every time soldiers approached his house during the peak of militancy in the state. Powered by a dry battery and fitted with a remote sensor, this lantern alerted him about human movement near his house in Sagaam village in Anantnag's Kokernag area, giving him enough time to dress up. The 48-year-old, who recently...

How much will you pay to land Mr. Right? For this Saudi woman, the answer is SR5 million (the equivalent of N208 million). Weird? Yes, but we are talking true love here – can we really put a price on that? The Saudi woman put the attractive advertisement in the local magazine, Roa, calling on all marriage-ready applicants to write in via email or fax. The announcement neither mentioned the woman’s name, age or whereabouts and the millions do come with strings attached. She will only reveal the conditions in person, however, the ad explains. “Applicants should provide their contact...

Three members of The Dave Matthews Tribute Band were arrested over the weekend on charges that they commandeered a swan boat on Lake Eola and accidentally capsized the watercraft, Orlando police reported Monday. Carlton Neil Newcomb, Ryan Michael Clifford and Derryck Christopher Gleaton were arrested at about 2 a.m. Saturday after officers responded to the lake. A police report said the boat had capsized, and Clifford and Newcomb were trying to get it back upright again. An officer ended up giving the men a rope to secure the boat to another boat, which was tied to the dock. SNIP Each...