For the past few months, residents of the town of Stourbridge, West Midlands in the United Kingdom, have been waking up to a pleasant surprise. Empty milk bottles with beautiful farm animals etched into the glass. However, just like Santa, nobody had seen or knew who this kind samaritan and amazing artist was......until now....

Hundreds of runners, all donned in gorilla suits took to the streets of London this weekend, to participate in the sixth annual, 7km Great Gorilla Run, a charity event to help endangered mountain gorillas. This year's record turnout of 735 people, one for every mountain gorilla alive, aimed to raise $400,000 USD to help preserve the dwindling population of this majestic animal....

Two geologists believe they have discovered what could be the world's oldest rocks near the Eastern shores of Hudson Bay in North Quebec. Jonathan O'Neil from McGill University and Richard Carlson from Carnegie Institution of Washington say that tests conducted on the rocks from this region, indicate that they could be as old as 4.28 billion years old, only 300,000 years younger than the Earth....

If British inventor Mijevic Miroslav has his way, a bike ride will no longer evoke memories of grinding up steep hills. Instead it will be as easy as pushing the gas pedal in a car, except for the fact that the Cycle Sol is solar powered....

Swiss Adventurer Yves Rossy, also known as Jetman or Fusionman, made history this morning by flying across the English Channel with just a jet-propelled wing on his back. Yves, who had to postpone the flight twice this week due to bad weather, soared across the skies at about a 100 mph on a beautiful fall afternoon, completing the 22-mile journey in just 13 minutes....

If the Spaceward Foundation is successful, Space Shuttles may become a thing of the past - Instead Astronauts and the rest of us will simply take an elevator to Space. Though initially the elevator will transport only cargo, the ultimate goal is for Space to become a tourist destination....

Since 1994, Bill Dan has been wowing the residents of San Francisco, California and the neighboring city of Sausalito with his amazing rock 'art' - if that's what one could call balancing different sizes of rocks on top of each other....

When we think of lobsters, we always imagine them to be red. However, did you know that lobsters could be blue, yellow or even white? Admittedly they are rare though - Blue lobsters are one in two million, yellow - one in thirty million and white, even rarer - one in one hundred million....

When the Bristol Zoo in the United Kingdom, decided to adopt Kera to join their Western Lowland gorilla family, they were a little concerned about how she would adjust....

Miners at the Letseng Mine in Lesotho, South Africa found a 478-carat diamond earlier this week. While this is the 20th largest rough diamond ever to be found, once cut, it could be the largest single round diamond in history....

After nine years of painstaking excavation, a team of archeologists has finally unearthed enough evidence to prove that they have found the elusive city of Itil, the capital of the medieval Khazars Empire that ruled over the area around the Caspian Sea in the seventh and eight centuries....

It looks like something one would expect to see at Hogwarts, Harry Potter's school of Withcraft and Wizardry. However, this unusual clock, which cost $2 million USD, is very real and was recently unveiled with much fanfare at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge by World famous professor, Steven Hawking....

First it was the elephants, now it seems that other animals have been bitten by the painting bug - and judging from the hundreds of dollars their masterpieces fetched at a recent auction, they are getting mighty good at it....

On September 24th, William Yuan, a seventh-grader from Beaverton, Oregon will be honored in Washington D.C. as the youngest Davidson Science Fellow, for his design of a three-dimensional, highly-efficient solar cell....

Two British divers believe they have discovered the remains of 'The Nancy', a ten-gun sailboat that crashed on the rocks near the Isles of Scilly, Britain, in February of 1784. Among its 49 passengers, was a famous British Opera singer, her newborn and their entire fortune....

The World's smallest man and the Woman with the World's tallest legs got together earlier this week at Trafalgar Square in London, to celebrate the launch of the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records, available in bookstores starting today....

An ordinary rainbow is an amazing natural phenomenon - but a smiley rainbow? That is definitely something special and unless you live in the Polar regions, something you may never see in your lifetime. But before we go any further, let's examine how normal rainbows occur....

46-year old Steve Colligan from Manchester, England who calls himself an 'Adventure Unicyclist' is about to embark on the most difficult and demanding ride of his life....

A Scottsdale man is alive today, thanks to a phone call made to 911 by his 18-month old German shepherd, Buddy. It all happened last Wednesday, when Joe Stalnaker, who lives alone, suffered a seizure. Without blinking an eyelid, Buddy dialled 911 and whimpered and barked on the phone in response to the emergency operator's query about the caller needing assistance....

Earlier this week, the Zoological Society of London released photos of the Okapi, an animal that was last sighted in the wild 50 years ago, and had until now never been photographed in its natural environment. The rare photos were caught by trip-wire cameras set up in the Republic of Congo's, Virumga National Park, one of three areas these shy animals can be found....

Some of you may not even know what Cabbage Patch dolls are, but believe it or not, in the early to mid-1980's they were the must-have dolls in America, for everyone young and young at heart. This year, these weirdly cute looking dolls are celebrating their 25th anniversary....

If you reside anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere you are probably aware that we are currently in the midst of the hurricane season, which officially starts on June 1st and ends on November 30th, every year....

The tales of Swansea Jack, a black retriever who lived in the coastal town of Swansea, Wales, are legendary. This brave dog is credited with saving the lives of 27 swimmers in his short seven-year life. Now almost eighty years later, artist Richard Higlet has come up with a fitting tribute to this brave canine - a special song dedicated to him, sung by dogs....

When John Peterson promised his two kids a tree house, he had no intention of building them a luxurious 200 sq ft mansion. But one thing led to another and his plans and aspirations got bigger and voila - three years later, the Peterson kids have a tree house that is turning into a tourist destination in the town of Onalaska, Wisconsin....