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Google’s Street View captures the moment a drunken Aussie keeled over outside his home

Thanks to the ever-awesome Dr. Jon for this one:
Bigfoot Body: “Georgia Gorilla” Will Shock The World

BIGFOOT BODY FOUND – EVIDENCE AND DNA DETAILS TO BE PRESENTED AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 15th

FROM 12 N00N TO 1:00PM AT THE CABANA HOTEL-PALO ALTO IN PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA

A body that may very well be the body of the creature commonly known as “Bigfoot” has been found in the woods in northern Georgia.

(That’s the other Georgia, by the way. Remember that one? Peaches, Ray Charles songs, all that.)

Not to be outdone by a mere sasquatch, the Republic of Canadia gives us the wendigo:
Bus beheading similar to Windigo phenomenon
Evil spirit made man eat family

And more monsters closer to home:
Bush Seeks to Loosen Endangered Species Act
Northwest conservationists bristle over U.S. move on species act

Tre Arrow sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison

Gonna try to add more environmental stories in the future.

Macedonia Adds Church Row to Name Talks

NASA Cassini Begins Transmitting Data From Enceladus Flyby

Hubble Space Telescope Unveils Colorful and Turbulent Star-Birth Region on 100,000th Orbit Milestone

Nasa Moonship flight target slips
NASA Worries About Design Flaws
ASAP Report Released

Meltdown in the Arctic is speeding up

Ice at the North Pole melted at an unprecedented rate last week, with leading scientists warning that the Arctic could be ice-free in summer by 2013.

Satellite images show that ice caps started to disintegrate dramatically several days ago as storms over Alaska’s Beaufort Sea began sucking streams of warm air into the Arctic.

Rush to Arctic as warming opens oil deposits
U.S. ship heads for Arctic to define territory
EU deploys 1st sea glider in Arctic ocean
U.S., Canada to collaborate on Arctic undersea survey