I didn't realize sharks were common in the waters off Long Island. (Insert Long Island joke here.)

Quoted: A 20-foot-long basking shark that washed ashore on a beach on New York's Long Island appears to have died from some kind of illness.

Yay, White House puppy!

Quoted: Let's follow the trail. The Obama puppy trail. Why? Because it is our duty. It starts at a doggie love shack on the bank of a creek in Pennsylvania and ends at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The studies that have tried to show that lobsters and crabs don't feel pain were so odd - it's basically trying to make us feel better about the fact that at the end of the day, we're all a bunch of animals...

Quoted: Ripping the legs off live crabs and crowding lobsters into seafood market tanks are just two of the many practices that may warrant reassessment, given two new studies that indicate crustaceans feel pain and stress.

I didn't realize the Red Cross had an "Animal Lifesaver Award." Maybe Willie got some birdseed?

Quoted: A parrot whose cries of alarm alerted his owner when a little girl choked on her breakfast has been honored as a hero.

Poor little guy...

Quoted: A small bat that was spotted blasting off with the space shuttle Sunday and clinging to the back side of Discovery's external fuel tank apparently held on throughout the launch.

Melissa - I smell a blog post!

Quoted: The mysterious mewing in Vickie Mendenhall's home started about the time she bought a used couch for $27.

Cool!

Quoted: A previously unknown species of climbing catfish has been discovered in remote Venezuela, and its strange traits are shaking the evolutionary tree for these fish.

Cool!

Quoted: A previously unknown species of climbing catfish has been discovered in remote Venezuela, and its strange traits are shaking the evolutionary tree for these fish.