World's Tiniest Elvis Impersonator: You Ain't Nothin' but a Stink Bug

Apr 6th 2011 – 7:37 AM |AOL News

ZUMA

Call it the world's smallest -- and smelliest -- Elvis impersonator. A stink bug caught on camera by an amateur wildlife photographer in Singapore has grown the perfect camouflage: It looks like the...

Sewer Gators: Swamp Creatures Invade New York City

Mar 31st 2011 – 7:27 AM |AOL News

History

New Yorkers grow up hearing stories about the alligators that supposedly live in the sewers -- but no one ever expects to actually see one. Sewer gators are an old myth ... but this week, that myth...

Knut, the Polar Bear Pictured With Leo DiCaprio in 'Vanity Fair,' Dies

Mar 19th 2011 – 3:58 PM |AOL News

Barbara Sax / AFP/Getty Images

Knut, the Berlin Zoo's world-famous polar bear whose fragile psyche became an international obsession, died after several hundred visitors witnessed him falling in his enclosure. The four-year-old...

Cross-Eyed Opossum to Make Oscar Picks

Feb 15th 2011 – 7:32 AM |AOL News

AP Photo/dapd, Sebastian Willnow

And the Oscar goes to ... Heidi the cross-eyed opossum? The googly-eyed marsupial isn't up for an award herself, but Oscar-watchers are going to make a trip to visit her at her home in Germany's...

Silverback Strut: Upright Gorilla Walks Like a Man

Jan 27th 2011 – 1:45 PM |AOL News

Kevin Jenner

A British wildlife center is getting international attention thanks to an ape with a unusual gait. Ambam, a silverback western lowland gorilla at The Aspinall Foundation's Port Lympne Wild Animal...

Leaping Lemurs Play Shell Game

Jan 20th 2011 – 8:17 AM |AOL News

Solent News / Rex / Rex USA

Why did the turtle stop in the road? It had nothing to do with the chicken... but the lemurs are another story. It might not have the drama of, say, bear vs. gorilla or Jay vs. Conan, but a lone...

The Eyes Have It: Googly Opossum Becomes Zoo Celeb

Jan 13th 2011 – 7:19 AM |AOL News

AP Photo/dapd, Sebastian Willnow

Meet the most unlikely zoo celebrity yet: a cross-eyed pest who hasn't even been on public display. Her name is Heidi, and this two-and-a-half-year-old opossum captured German hearts when she was...

Titanic Toad Is One Unhappy Hopper

Jan 11th 2011 – 7:35 AM |AOL News

Getty Images

She may not look like a happy hopper ... but who feels good about their weight right after the holidays? Agathe is a cane toad at the Hannover Zoo in Germany, and she wasn't singled out for her...

Great White Sharks Take to the Air for Seal Hunt

Jan 5th 2011 – 3:39 PM |AOL News

Chris Fallows, ApexPredators.com

Sharks generally aren't known for their flying skills -- but don't tell that to the great whites off South Africa's Seal Island. The island, home to a major fur seal population, is like a castle...

100 Recycled Bicycles = 1 Weird Christmas Tree

Nov 27th 2010 – 7:34 AM |AOL News

Mark Metcalfe, Getty Images

(Nov. 27) -- Most Christmas trees are already green, but this environmentally friendly holiday display in Sydney takes the concept to a new level: It's made of bicycles that were destined for the...

South Korea Welcomes March of the Santa Penguins

Nov 17th 2010 – 2:10 PM |AOL News

Jung Yeon Je, AFP / Getty Images

(Nov. 17) -- It was "March of the Penguins" meets "March of the Wooden Soldiers" in South Korea as a popular amusement park opened the holiday season this week. This little guy was one of a dozen...

Naked Chimp Reminds Us of Ourselves

Nov 6th 2010 – 6:42 PM |AOL News

Barcroft / Fame Pictures

(Nov. 6) -- It's been said that humans are just naked apes. And if you don't think that's true, just take a look at Guru, a hairless 20-year-old chimpanzee who looks a lot like a bronze statue of a...

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