Researchers learned from reports in early 2010 of a new monkey species in Myanmar, with a nose so recessed that it habitually collects rainfall and constantly sneezes.
However, according to a National Geographic dispatch, by the time scientists arrived to investigate, natives had eaten the monkey.
The sneezing makes them easy for hunters to detect.
Researchers studying a rare species of Vietnamese lizard had an easier time.
After learning of the species and rushing to Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, a two-man team from La Sierra University in Riverside, Calif., found the lizards being routinely served in several restaurants’ lunch buffets.
Everyone
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weird
Nicholas Hodge, 31, was arrested in Winona County, Minn., after he entered the home of an acquaintance at 2:40 a.m. and refused to leave, complaining that a person who lived there owed him something.
According to the deputy’s report, Hodge was cuffed while sitting on a toilet “in the kitchen.”
The deputy added, “I’m not sure why they had a toilet in the kitchen.”
Men
especially
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Femen
The women’s group Femen is growing in popularity in Ukraine, according to a Reuters dispatch, helped in large part by its members’ willingness, during the group’s ubiquitous street protests, to remove their tops.
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