Ten times the size of a regular rat, the massive rodent had been terrorising villagers in Hunan Province.
A boy who claimed to have spent five years living in the woods in Germany has been exposed as a fake.
Researchers investigating the Roswell UFO crash have been made aware of two tantalizing new images.
The UN climate change panel has been considering some unorthodox ways to tackle global warming.
Three unusual objects have been caught on night vision camera in the skies east of Wittenberg in Germany.
Physicists have been able to create a form of 'light-matter' reminiscent of the lightsabers in Star Wars.
A veritable treasure trove of dinosaur footprints has been found along the side of Alaska's Yukon river.
NASA's Mars rover has been unable to find any significant amount of methane in Mars' atmosphere.
An inexplicably large footprint has been discovered in the back yard of an Ashtabula County resident.
Sightings of mysterious bipedal canines have been hitting the headlines in Michigan for over 100 years.
A mysterious man in full clown make-up has been spotted several times standing outside people's houses.
A strange man in a gask mask and military clothing has been sighted numerous times over the last decade.
New research has suggested that dolphins may not be any more intelligent than most other animals.
Authorities have been looking in to the sighting of an alleged Bigfoot on a road near Linwood.
An invasion of millipedes in Australia is believed to have been responsible for a train crash.
A photograph of a woman with a ghostly extra in the background has been circulating the Internet.
A bent spoon given to Uri Geller by Michael Jackson has been sold at a charity auction for £500.
A vast chasm has been discovered beneath an ice sheet in Greenland that rivals the Grand Canyon.
Once thought to have been a vicious predator, the 7ft terror bird was actually a harmless plant-eater.
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano had been out on a spacewalk when his helmet started to fill with water.