Grolar bears have "thick white fur like a polar bear" and "a wide head, brown legs, and brown paws like a grizzly." They happen when global warming drives grizzlies north. Global warming: Cute but deadly. [CBC, SciAm, pic]

Want to see a puppy hump a chicken in a cardboard box?

This cat looks into the mirror and clearly doesn't like what he sees.

He might be asleep, but that won't slow him down.

This cat puts on her dancing shoes for us...ballet slippers to be exact. She executes her pirouette with grace and charm, with a perfect landing to top off her performance. Ballerina kitty, we applaud you.

The very endearing results of a 2008 expedition to New Guinea's Foja Mountains have been released. The recently-discovered species include the smallest known wallaby and a frog with a nose. [Time; pic, from Foja in 2007, via AP]

Garnering over 400,000 views since its initial upload on May 12, the kitten with the possessed tongue, furtive glances and nonchalant attitude has become a bona fide viral sensation.

Check out this dog's amazing slalom domination.

Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe was apparently not content with merely sporting a Hitler moustache. He clearly felt his crazy despot credentials were lacking something. Which may be why he sent a boatload of animals to North Korea's Kim Jong Il.

This cat climbs up a vase, and disappears into it.

This dog has so much fun sliding into a pool he does it again and again and again.

This baby panda startles his mom with a sneeze.

For the first time in 300 years, a gray whale was spotted outside the Pacific Ocean. The stray gray swam to Israel, a sign either of global warming or that a guy named Jonah is gonna get it. [USA Today]

He might not have perfect pitch, but he has the timing down.

These sheep shape shift like the Blockheads in Gumby.

A stray mutt that has appeared at "nearly every demonstration in Athens over the last two years." He's always on the side of the protesters. He barks at the police. Locals call him and his ilk "dogs of the movement."

When this girl tickles this koala its ears can't stop twitching.

To get an idea of how brutal chimp attacks are: the Connecticut woman who was attacked by an ape in February of 2009 has just been released from hospital. She "hopes for more reconstructive surgery."

Crunch crunch nibble mmmmmm tasty.

Never seen a hamster go through an obstacle course? You have now.