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Stallion Semen Served Up in New Zealand as New Energy Drink

By Matthew HallFeb 25th 2011 – 7:33AM
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Alamy

The latest crazy candidate for a food fad may prove to be quite a mouthful. Raise your glass if you fancy a shot of horse semen, a purported "delicacy" that will debut at the Wildfoods Festival in Hokitika, New Zealand, in March. "It is sort of quirky, I suppose," festival organizer Mike Keenan told AOL News, with Kiwi...

UFOs Buzz New Zealand After X-Files Release

By Lee SpeigelDec 29th 2010 – 9:14AM
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UFO Image. Getty RF

Could New Zealand become a new hot spot for close encounters? Just days after New Zealand authorities released 2,000 pages of previously classified UFO X-Files, mysterious lights were spotted over three locations. New Zealand's stuff.co.nz news service reports that on Sunday, Boxing Day in that country, unexplained...

New Zealand Releases UFO Files

By Lee SpeigelDec 24th 2010 – 8:52AM
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Getty Images

It's close encounters of the Kiwi kind as hundreds of formerly classified UFO reports, spanning nearly 60 years, were released this week by authorities in New Zealand. More than 2,000 pages of documents, revealing UFO sightings going back to the 1950s, are included in the files, the New Zealand Dominion Post reports. The...

Background on kiwi

Kiwi are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand, in the genus Apteryx and family Apterygidae. At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites and lay the largest egg in relation to their body size of any species of bird in the world.

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