For the last four days, San Diego, CA has been host to one of the world's most popular conventions - Comic Con International, an event dedicated to comics, science fiction and fantasy. While children are welcome at this event, it is more populated with adults behaving like kids!...

If you happened to be near the Thames River in Southern England, from July 19th to the 23rd, you may have witnessed a rather unusual event - Swan Upping, an annual census of swans commissioned by the order of her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II....

A Colorado bear prowling for food got more than he had bargained for when he stepped inside a car attracted by the peanut butter and jelly sandwich that lay on the back seat....

Earlier last month, Khroma, a baby Mammoth took its first airplane trip all the way from its frozen home in Siberia where it had lain for over 50,000 years to spend the summer on display in South East France's, ....

While almost all birds migrate between seasons, few take it as seriously as the Arctic Tern, a small seabird that flies a distance of between 70,000 - 81,600 km annually, from its breeding grounds in the Arctic to its winter home in the Antarctic....

The countdown to one of the most world's most anticipated theme parks has begun - In 98 days on October 28th, 2010, Abu Dhabi's Yas Island will be home to the world's first Ferrari theme park and, just like the car, it promises to be fast and furious!...

Just like the Energizer Bunny, the Zephyr keeps going and going. However, this unmanned aircraft is not powered by an Energizer battery but, by Solar Power!...

Hey, you know the joke - What's Black and White and Read all over? A newspaper! Except in this case the correct answer to that joke is a bald sunburnt penguin named Ralph, who lives at Marwell Wildlife in Hampshire, England...

Nobel Prize winning psychologists, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons had a theory - They believed that humans focus only on things they want to - sometimes missing the most obvious stuff going on around them....

It took the researchers from the Zoological Society of London, 200 hours to find this elusive creature, but in the end, it was well-worth it! For they managed to do what nobody else has every done before - take amazing pictures of the Horton Plains Slender Loris, last seen in 1939 and thought to be long extinct!...

While deserts are by definition, places where rain is scarce, there is only one area on this earth - the central portion of Chile's Atacama Desert, where it never ever rained - at least since humans started keeping a record - about 400 years ago!...

If the hot summer days are not enough excuse to slurp on some ice cream, here is a more official reason - Today, July 18th is National Ice Cream Day, a holiday declared in 1984 by none other President Reagan, who probably topped his, with jelly beans!...

The next time you are asked to swap that computer game for a crossword puzzle, remind your parents that according to really smart scientists, the former will be more effective in making your brain 'smarter'!...

Madhuri, an Asian Elephant that resides in India's has figured out a new way to keep herself entertained - Getting hold of live lizards and tossing them around like toys - for days on end!...

For the first time in 85 days, 16 hours and 25 minutes there is no oil gushing out into the gulf from the catastrophic explosion that caused an underwater well to rupture, on that fateful day on April 20, 2010...

For many years now, it has been believed that our planet Earth is about 4.567 billion years old - Now, a new study conducted by scientists at the University of Cambridge's Trinity College has revealed that we may have overestimated the date - by about 70 million years!...

How many people does it take to ride a skateboard? Think the answer is obvious? Not so, when you are trying to steer a 36 feet 7 inches long skateboard that is 9 feet wide and weighs nearly 3,800 pounds, and, is officially the World's Largest Skateboard!...

Spain's victory against the Netherlands for the coveted FIFA championship can only be attributed to its talented team! Would the outcome have been different had Holland managed to convince one of these talented martial arts students to join them? We can only wonder!...

I just realized that I missed the World Nutella Day on February 5th - However, never one to cry over spilt milk or as is the case here, a missed celebration, I decided to re-create the day by sharing my fabulous Nutella Cupcakes (at least the recipe) with all of you! Happy late World Nutella Day!...

You may think that crayons are for very little kids and that you are too cool to be caught with them - But as Herb Williams will tell you the colorful wax sticks are not just drawing tools, but also a medium for carving amazing sculptures!...

What do you do when a little baby bird is born with curled toes - buy it a pair of bright green slippers of course! At least that's what happened at Paradise Park, a wildlife sanctuary for endangered birds in Cornwall....

Described as the 'World's toughest foot race', the Badwater Ultramarathon spans 135 miles, starting at Badwater Basin in California's Death Valley and ending at the foot of Mt. Whitney....

Feeling a bit blue now that the FIFA World Cup is over? Do not fret, for coming your way soon is the 2010 Quidditch World Cup! And, it's not a figment of J.K. Rowling's imagination either, but a real live competition, played by teams from some of America's and the world's most prestigious Universities....

Soccer fans seeking help on 'predicting' the outcome of tomorrow's World Cup Final match between Spain and Netherlands, now have two unusual sources to turn to - An octopus and a parakeet. And, since they have predicted different outcomes, one of them is sure to prove its pyschic powers!...