Alien zoo

Keepers at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia have noticed a fashion trend spreading among groups of chimpanzees living there – sticking strands of grass in their ears or rectums, and just le

Deputies were called to an ice cream parlour in South Lake Tahoe, California, after the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office received reports of an unusual disturbance on 17 August. Entering the shop, th

The SAS (Special Air Service) make routine use of sleep-deprivation exercises in their selection process, and these often feature in later training. Hallucinations during such exercises are very commo

I read recently that scientists allegedly agree that there is no increase in extreme weather events and conditions. If that’s so, the journals I checked must not yet have got the memo. The German Helm

Several years ago, scuba divers were exploring coral reefs around Kumejima Island in Japan’s Ryukyu archipelago when they saw what looked like a graveyard of tiny panda skeletons. Well, not exactly sk

While the original National Folklore Survey from the 1960s was unscientific and open ended, simply asking random people “what do you know to be true?”, its 21st century successor is a very different b