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Locals in a small Canadian town have been stumped by the appearance of a bizarre creature, which was dragged from a lake.

The animal, which has a long hairy body with bald skin on its head, feet and face, has prompted wild internet speculation that it is a more evolved version of the famous ‘Montauk monster’.

The creature was discovered by two nurses in the town of Kitchenuhmaykoosib in Ontario, Canada, while out on a walk with their dog.

When the dog began sniffing in the lake, the two women started investigating, before the dog pulled the dead animal out.

After taking some photographs of the odd animal, the nurses left it alone. When locals decided to go back and retrieve the body, it has disappeared.

The photographs have now been posted on a local website, with an explanation which reads: ‘This creature was first discovered by Sam the Dog, a local dog.

‘It was discovered first week of May in the creek section of town, hikers noticed Sam sniffing something in the water and they approached to see in what the Sam had detected and they noticed the creature in the water face down.

The dog jumped in the lake and pulled the creature to the rocks and dragged it out for the hikers to see and these are the photos they took.

‘The creature’s tail is like a rat’s tail and it is a foot long.’

Read on at dailymail.co.uk

A girl, 5, left seriously ill when both her kidneys failed astounded medical experts by growing two new ones.

Angel Burton suffered from painful kidney infections from birth to the point where she required surgery at the age of five.

But surgeons were amazed to discover the little girl had four kidneys, with two new fully-formed organs sitting on top of her old ones.

And the new ones had taken over the role of the others, meaning she was effectively ‘cured’ of kidney failure.

Now, three years on, Angel, now eight, is fighting fit and her family are still thankful for the miracle that changed her life.

[Read on at dailymail.co.uk]

A music teacher, Frano Selak, who was dubbed the world’s luckiest man after cheating death seven times before winning the lottery has now decided to give away his fortune.

The 81 year-old won £600,000 five years ago in the lottery in Croatia, to celebrate his fifth marriage, after earlier surviving plane and train crashes.

He also survived other disasters including landing on a haystack after falling out of a plane door that had blown open.

Now the pensioner has decided that “money cannot buy happiness” and has decided to live a frugal life.

He has sold his luxury home on a private island, given away his fortune to family and friends and moved back to his modest home in Petrinja, which is south of Zagreb, in the centre of the country.

He kept the last bit of his winnings for a hip replacement operation so he could enjoy life with his wife and also so he could build a shrine to the Virgin Mary to give thanks for his luck.

Mr Selak said he has never been happier.

“All I need at my age is my Katarina. Money would not change anything,” he said.

“When she arrived I knew then that I really did have a charmed, blessed life.

“I never thought I was lucky to survive all my brushes with death. I thought I was unlucky to be in them in the first place.”

He added that people were always telling him he was lucky to have survived so many disasters but he added: “I always think I was unlucky to have been in them in the first place but you can’t tell people what they don’t want to believe.”

He had his first escape in 1962 when a train he was travelling on from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik jumped the rails and plunged into an icy river.

Seventeen people drowned and he barely made it to the riverbank after suffering from hypothermia, shock, bruises and a broken arm.

A year later, he was thrown out of a plane on his first and only flight when a door flew open.

This time 19 people died but he was thrown clear of the crash and landed in a haystack.

Then in 1966, a bus he was on skidded into a river, drowning four. He swam to safety with just cuts and bruises.

Accident number four came in 1970 when his car caught fire as he drove along a motorway and he fled with seconds to spare before the fuel tank exploded.

Three years later, he lost most of his hair when a faulty fuel pump spewed petrol over the hot engine of his car and blew flames through the air vents.

Then in 1995 came his sixth accident when he was knocked down by a bus in Zagreb but walked away with minor injuries.

The following year, he was driving in the mountains when he turned a corner to see a UN truck coming straight for him.

His Skoda careered through a crash barrier and over the 300ft precipice.

But he leapt clear at the last minute and sat in a tree as he watched his car hit the bottom and explode.

He then won £600,000 with his first ever lottery ticket and celebrated his fifth marriage saying: “I guess all the earlier marriages were disasters too.”

[via: telegraph.co.uk]

A local council sent a letter to a woman’s pet pig offering the animal the chance to register for a vote in last week’s election.

The letters were addressed to Blossom Grant at Pig Flats – the creature’s old sty in Uckfield, East Sussex.

The building was renovated two years ago house volunteers at a local horse rescue centre, and due to a Land Registry error the pig receives several junk letters a month.

Pauline Grant, 73, Blossom’s owner, said: “I could not believe it when the letter telling Blossom to register to vote came through it was one of the strangest things I had ever seen.

“I am not sure who Blossom would have voted for but at a guess I would say the Green Party. They would probably look after her needs best.

“She is a very clever animal but I think politics might be a bit complicated for her.”

After contacting Wealden District Council bosses to point out the mix-up, Mrs Grant decided to take Blossom down to her nearest polling station on May 6.

She added: “I did it as a sort of piggy protest for poor old Blossom and the amount of paperwork she is expected to do.

“I walked her down to the polling station and took all the letters she has received. People quickly huddled around and wanted to know what was going on.

“It is getting a bit silly now, the amount of post she gets.

“I have tried to tell the local authority on many occasions to sort this out, but nothing happens.

“I have called them and said the recipient of this post is a pig but no one listens. They probably think I am joking.

“We have had letters from all sorts of establishments addressed to the pig.

“There have been lots of requests from the TV licensing people and loads from Royal Mail but I have not opened any of them they are not addressed to me.

“I do not think Blossom would have much use for a mobile phone and it is a bit unfair for her to pay for a TV licence as she does not watch television.”

A spokesman for Wealden District said: “The flat is listed as being named The Pig on a database of addresses used by local authorities.

“I can confirm no pigs voted in the area last week.”

[via: telegraph.co.uk]

Measuring longer than a school bus and sporting tentacles covered in razor-sharp hooks, the colossal squid is the stuff of nightmares. However, new research suggests the enormous sea creature may not be the fierce hunter of legend.

This finding not only upends science’s understanding of the squid itself, but forces a reevaluation of its role in the entire ecosystem where it lives some 3,000 to 6,000 feet (914 to 1,830 meters) beneath the Antarctic sea.

This new view of the colossal squid comes from data analysis made by marine biologists Rui Rosa, of the University of Lisboa, Portugal, and Brad Seibel, of the University of Rhode Island. Rosa and Seibel looked at the relationship between metabolism (how the body’s cells turn food into energy) and body size for smaller squids in the same family and used the information to predict the metabolism of the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni).

They found, the squid would’ve had a slower metabolism and so moved slower than expected, waiting for prey, rather than running it down. “Everyone thought it was an aggressive predator, but the data suggests otherwise,” Rosa told LiveScience. “It’s a squid that weights half a ton with hooks in its tentacles, but our findings show it’s more like just a big blob.”

Contrary to the image of Kraken-like shellfish attacking ships and dragging sailors to their deaths, this new data paints a picture of a mostly sedentary creature, Rosa said. Rather than swimming after prey, the colossal squid would wait to ambush passing fish.

And if the colossal squid consumed and expended less energy than previous thought, as this data indicates, then biologists will also need to reevaluate the squid’s role as whale food, Rosa said.

“Because the squid is more cold-blooded than we thought, they are not really that nutritious,” Rosa said. “The whale is not getting much by eating it. They’d have to consume a lot of squid to maintain their lifestyle.”

Rosa also noted that since so little is known about the colossal squid, almost any new discoveries are likely to overturn existing theories. The fact that the squid lives in such deep and frigid waters makes it almost impossible for scientists to acquire new specimens.

“We didn’t really have live measurements, because it’s almost impossible to go to the ocean and catch one,” Rosa said. “We know more about the moon than the deep sea. It’s a cliché, but it’s true, especially in the Antarctic.”

The study was detailed online on April 20 in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.

[via: livescience.com]

A three-year-old German boy who was brought back to life after his heart stopped for three hours claims he met his grandmother in heaven.

The boy, identified in media reports only as Paul, was playing on his own beside a lake at his grandfather’s property in Brandenburg when he fell in, the Bild newspaper reports.

Paul’s grandfather found his body in the water a short time later and the youngster was rushed to Helios Hospital via helicopter.

Four doctors attempted to resuscitate Paul for three hours and 18 minutes and were about to stop when his heart suddenly began beating.

It is believed the cold water in the lake caused Paul’s body temperature to drop to 28C — nine degrees below the normal 37C — which slowed his metabolism and allowed his body to survive with little oxygen.

When Paul woke he told his parents he was in “heaven with grandma Emmi … she said that I would go back down again very quickly”.

It is not known when the boy’s grandmother died or if he had ever met her.

Researchers said yesterday that near death experiences and divine encounters were a trick of the mind caused by high levels of carbon dioxide.

Professor Lothar Schweigerer from Helios Hospital said he had never seen anything like it in his 30 years as a doctor.

“My doctors were close to saying ‘we can do no more’ after two hours of thorax compression,” Professor Schweigerer was quoted on Sky News as saying.

“[We thought] the little lad must have been brain dead … but then suddenly his heart started to beat again … it was a fantastic miracle.

“The boy is happy and healthy. It’s a wonderful thing.”

[via: news.ninemsn.com]

A mystery beast that resembles a chupacabra (”goat-sucker”), a legendary, fearsome and possibly mythical beast said to inhabit parts of the Americas and Puerto Rico, is seen shortly after its capture in a village in Suining, Sichuan Province on March 24.

In this case, the gray colored animal wasn’t attacking goats, but chickens and it was the fowls’ cries that alerted village Ke Suying to find the mystery predator tearing into his birds. He tried to drive it away with a stick but failed, though later with the help of neighbors caught it in a steel net.

It resembles a large rat or a mutant mix of kangaroo and dog, with large claws. It is about 60 centimeters long, with a 30-centimeter tail. Villagers describe it as “quite fierce” and said it ravenously consumes both meat and vegetables fed to it.

Most of its brown fur has fallen out, with only a little left on its back and a front foot.

The creature has been given to the Sichuan Province forestry department for further examination.

[via: life.globaltimes.cn]

The Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn has caught an interesting new view of the tiny moon Mimas.

The probe measured temperature differences across the object’s surface and produced a map that looks just like the 1980s Pac-Man video games icon.

Scientists are unsure why Mimas should display such variations but say it is probably related to the diversity of textures in the surface materials.

Some textures may retain heat better than others, they explain.

Mimas is about 400km (250 miles) across. It has a distinctive scar called Herschel Crater which has led many to draw comparisons with the “Death Star” from the Star Wars movies.

The Cassini team says the creation of the crater itself might have played a key role in changing conditions across extensive regions of the moon’s surface.

Cassini is a joint venture between the US space agency (Nasa), the European Space Agency (Esa) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI).

Its mission was recently extended through to 2017.

[via: news.bbc.co.uk]

Plans to more precisely plot the orbit of an asteroid with a small chance of hitting Earth in 2036 may be badly hit by funding cuts to a US radar facility.

Radar measurements set to be made in January 2013 by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, US, could help rule out an impact by asteroid Apophis.

But the cuts mean Arecibo needs an extra $2m-$3m a year to continue.

If not, the observations planned for 2011-2013 will have to be abandoned, the facility’s director told BBC News.

Dr Michael Nolan said he was “moderately optimistic” that the money could be found.

But he pointed out that Arecibo was the only observatory in the world sensitive enough for the task.

“If we measure [Apophis] in 2013, there is something like a 95% chance that we’ll be able to prove that it can’t hit the Earth in 2036,” he explained.

[Read on at news.bbc.co.uk]

This is the time of year when most of us engage in some form of spring-cleaning – washing, dusting and sweeping spiders out of dark corners should swiftly dispel the winter gloom.

But if it doesn’t, then maybe your home is suffering from a deeper malaise than grimy curtains – or so believes ‘house healer’ Sandra Kendrew, who has been working with troubled buildings and their occupants for nearly a decade.

‘We’ve all been into houses that just don’t have a nice atmosphere, even if you can’t put your finger on what’s wrong,’ explains Sandra.

‘Often, the occupants report feelings of tiredness, unexplained headaches, depression, even relationship problems. My job is to identify the energy that’s causing the problem, and disperse it safely.’

[Read on at dailymail.co.uk]

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