Better Business Bureau's top 10 local scams The local Better Business Bureau has compiled its list of the year's top 10 scams.

It'll be a merry Christmas indeed at Munich, Germany's Hellabrunn Zoo: After a two-year gestation period, Asian elephant Panang gave birth to a healthy female calf Monday. The calf, named Jamuna Toni, weighed nearly 250 pounds at birth.

Pictures of the year 2009: animals eating each other

animals tuck into festive treats

A seal pup found by a family in their back garden 18 miles inland has been nicknamed Rudolph.

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A longtime professor at Missouri Southern State University has been charged with a felony count of possessing child pornography on his workplace computer, according to a probable-cause statement.

Plants that eat rats, slimy alien-looking fungi, leaves that dance all by themselves and flowers that smell like the rotting corpse of a horse: all of these wonders of nature are among the most rare, exotic and unusual plant species in the world.

A couple, whose purse fell into a tiger enclosure at the Assam State Zoo here when they climbed over the iron railing, tried to retrieve it but were stopped in time by the guards. The couple from Shillong had illegally climbed over a wall and iron

You don't have to be a crazy cat lady to have more than one cat at a time -- and Army Spc. Nathan Davis wrote the essay to prove it. Davis' essay about a day with his cats, Cmdr. Frank Sinatra and Sgt. Snog, won a contest to debunk stereotypes of