Awesome random Slate article on octopus intelligence.

Quoted: Aristotle didn't have a high opinion of the octopus. "The octopus is a stupid creature," he wrote, "for it will approach a man's hand if it be lowered in the water." Twenty-four centuries later, this "stupid" creature is enjoying a much better reputation.

Cool! Apparently the single horn is a genetic mutation and one of the researchers suggests this might've been how the unicorn myth came to be.

Quoted: A deer with a single horn in the center of its head — much like the fabled, mythical unicorn — has been spotted in a nature preserve in Italy, park officials said.

You could tell me monkeys baked a salmon quiche and I wouldn't be surprised - they're so smart! Mo, this one's for you...

Quoted: Long-tailed macaques have a reputation for knowing how to find food — whether it be grabbing fruit from trees or snatching a banana from a tourist. Now, researchers have discovered groups of the primates in Indonesia that fish.

Aw, this is so sad!

Quoted: After five years of futile efforts to find or confirm sightings of any Caribbean monk seals, the U.S. on Friday declared the species extinct, noting it is the only seal to vanish due to human causes.

This Web site will leave you truly speechless... Thanks for this one, Pammy.

Quoted: Sugar Bush Squirrel is a real, live Eastern Gray Squirrel who is owned and photographed by Ms. Kelly Foxton. Being an International Superstar and The World's Most Photographed Squirrel, Sugar Bush loves to dress up, and has over 2,000 outfits with matching hats and accessories.

How weird! These ants detect and are drawn to eletromagnetic fields...

Quoted: Electronic devices near Houston, Texas, are under attack by a species known as the " crazy rasberry ant" ( Paratrechina species near pubens), which is thought to have arrived as a stowaway on a cargo ship in 2002. According to the Associated Press, the ants seem to be attracted to electrical equipment and have been "shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers" wherever they go.

So sad... I didn't realize this was the case with racehorses.

Quoted: After finishing in second place in Saturday's Kentucky Derby, Eight Belles fell to the track with two compound ankle fractures. The horse, the first filly to run at Churchill Downs in nine years, was immediately put down.

Aw, sad! Ling Ling was getting pretty old though - you can even tell by the picture.

Quoted: Japan's oldest giant panda, Ling Ling, a longtime star at Tokyo's largest zoo and a symbol of friendship with China, died Wednesday of heart failure.

Bears on the loose in Paramus, N.J.! Maybe they're just trying to get to the Garden State Plaza Mall?

Quoted: April 24: Police choppers and canine units are searching for two bears roaming Paramus, N.J.