An Egyptian farmer this week said one of his cows gave birth to a two-headed calf, after two hours of strenuous labor. The farmer, Sobhy el-Ganzoury, called it a "divine miracle." The animal is expected to survive.

This scientist licks frogs and salamanders like they're a tub of Ben & Jerry's, in order to determine what they are secreting is "foul" or not. For a video by Nat Geo, this is certainly an old-fashioned approach.

This dog will do anything to get back her frisbee. Even if her beloved toy is stuck in a high tree branch.

Bee populations in the U.S. declined almost 30 per cent last year. Why? Some researchers think it's because cell phone radiation disturbs their navigational abilities (Update: Not everyone agrees!). Bee holocaust: There's an app for that.

Further proof that cats are indeed smarter than dogs. This cat even has the wherewithal to attack and take cover....shear genius!

[Blue crabs head toward the city along the main seaside avenue of Cancun, Mexico, disoriented by ongoing public works along the road. I bet they're feeling pretty... wait for it... wait for it... pissed off. Pic via AP]

This Chinese circus trick involves one big goat, one monkey, a cup, and a trainer. What goes down is almost as magical as the Great Wall.

Tim Scott was snapping cellphone pictures of a wild black bear in Kentucky when it attacked him: "The bear had a really good chunk of my leg in his mouth and was shaking me." The animal is now being hunted.

Combine slippery vet's table with young energetic cat and you get a cat rolling around in ecstasy like he was covered in in catnip.

We all know that vuvuzelas are annoying. Well, guess what—dogs hate them, too! In this case, the pooch being victimized by his taunting, vuvuzela-branding owner decides to let his frustration flow, if you get my drift. Video inside.

With metal peg legs fused to his bones, Oscar is the "world's first bionic cat." Whereas canine double-amputees are happy to drag themselves around on wheels, the cat's springing gait has long foiled animal prostheticians. Updated with video.

Booking appointments now! A minute goes for a scratch behind the ears. You want three? You'll have to shoot around the laser pointer a while for that.

Watch as the silly animals knock over the elaborate domino arrangements painstakingly set up by their Japanese foes. Which species will prevail?

This squirrel ate some fermented pumpkins becoming drunk. He tries to climb a tree, falling many times then choosing the much easier option of chasing his tail.

Behold! This teeny-tiny roe deer's mother died in a car crash, but moments after mama's death, little baby Bambi struggled out of the womb and survived. It'd be creepy as hell if the result weren't so adorable. [Daily Mail] Updated!

This puppy Daschund with ears blowing in the wind just wants to play with his friend...his reflection! Such angst!

A decade-long study of chimpanzees in Uganda appears to show that chimps wage war and annex territory, assembling into patrols and killing chimpanzees from other groups. On the other hand, baby chimps are really cute.

Diego the pony is so ugly he was nearly euthanized. But six-year-old Maddison Biddlecombe "fell in love" with the hideous foal and is fighting to rescue him from the glue factory. Meet The Beautiful Baby and the Equine Beast.

This Japanese commercial, although in another language, speaks to the middle class existential angst all cats in the corporate business world feel.

On Thursday, a grizzly bear in Yellowstone Park killed 70 year-old botanist Erwin Evret just hours after scientists tranquilized, tagged and released it. Wildlife officials used the bear's new radio collar to track it down again and kill it. [Telegraph]