A photograph of a peculiar bright-blue spider with only seven legs has been taken by Mary Howard.
Large numbers of enormous Humboldt squid have been devouring livestock and even attacking humans.
Alex Zelaya investigates the theory that ancient Mediterraneans may have been first to reach the Americas.
The largest known solar system beyound our own has been discovered around a sun-like star 127 light years away.
A 21-year-old children's worker is so scared of bananas that she has been diagnosed as suffering from bananaphobia.
The world's first amateur rocket designed to carry humans in to space has been developed in Denmark.
These giant, flightless birds that roamed South America 50 million years ago would have been fearsome predators.
Motorists in Australia have been hitting 180km/h in an attempt to conjure the ghost of a dead motorcyclist.
Several brave contestants took part in a competition to see who could manage the largest beard of honey bees.
A new robot has been developed that will attempt to reach a sealed chamber within the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Brazil's Air Force has been ordered by its government to officially record any sightings of UFOs.
A bear cub has been rescued by a local wildlife commission after having its head stuck in a plastic jar for 10 days.
A huge archive of material relating to the discovery of King Tutankhamun has been put online for the first time.
It has been revealed that some of the cattle cloned to help food production in the US used cells from dead animals.
A lamb born with only two legs in China has been spared after the farmer was inspired by its will to survive.
History tells of Irishman Michael Keogh who in 1919 saved Hitler from being kicked to death by a mob.
A rectangular shaped feature that looks like a street grid in the middle of the sea has been spotted on Google Ocean.
A poo-powered Volkswagon Beetle has been touring UK streets to help encourage sustainable motoring.
Bone fragments believed to belong to St John the Baptist have been discovered in Bulgaria.
New research has revealed that triceratops may have simply been a younger version of another dinosaur.