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Rare colossal squid washes up on Australian beach.

The new director was temporarily reassigned Monday.

Panda National Zoo isn't pregnant after all.

Elwood, a Chinese Crested, is crowned world's ugliest dog.

Researchers report trace amounts of drugs in Eternal City's air.

New birth-control pill can halt women's menstrual periods indefinitely.

Tragic accident breaks woman's skull from spine and lives.

Environmental group builds biblical boat replica on mountain.

Boy with earache had spiders living in ear.

A new set of rules at the Antwerp zoo's chimp enclosure were put in place to prevent one chimp from bonding too much with humans.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service might reclassify manatees as “threatened'' instead of “endangered,'' according to an internal memo obtained by The Washington Post.

A 2004 eruption of Mount St. Helens is causing the magma beneath the volcano to be replaced as fast as it emerges as lava at the surface, scientists say.

A Florida teenager finally got rid of her 5-week case of the hiccups.

Italy's recently discovered prehistoric couple will continue their 5,000-year-old embrace undisturbed through Valentine's Day and beyond.

Scientists give Dante Alighieri a makeover based on drawings, a measure taken of his skull and of course some computer modeling.

The discovery could help provide information on such matters as the food the artist ate and whether his mother was of Arabic origin.

The controversial technology is being tested in Phoenix.

Stingray bodies since have been discovered on two beaches. Two their tails lopped off.

A man angry at firefighters who refused to rescue a cat from a tree was arrested after he started shooting at the fire crew, officials said.

Elaborate proposal staged with the help of family members and Roswell's UFO Museum.

Many were rusty, indicating they could have been in her stomach for months.

Cows, chickens and other farm animals called endangered.

Roger Busdicker went out on a high note.

A little help from sanitation workers probably saved Ron Goldstein a lot of explaining to his wife.