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Last week a group of teenagers from the town of Cerro Azul in Panama claimed they across this unidentified creature as they were playing near a lake. The web was abuzz with speculation, but now the mystery is solved. Read more...

The Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot might not really exist, but the "Mongolian Death Worm" is real, according to a group of cryptozoologists in the UK. Read more...

An Italian scientist had warned a month ago that a devastating earthquake was about to rock the area around L’Aquila, in central Italy, where over 170 people perished in their sleep on Monday morning. At the time, the authorities rebuffed him for scaremongering. Today, he says he is owed an apology. Read more and watch the videos...

Using only a helium balloon and a simple digital camera, a group of Spanish students have managed to take photos of Earth, from 30,000 metres away. See their photos...

Sixty years before its creation, Belgium's very own mad professor, Paul Otlet, envisaged a data exchange system that bore an uncanny resemblance to the internet. Read more...