The Brookesia Minima is the world's smallest species of chameleon. This one is just half an inch. Found on the rainforest floor of Nosy Be Island off the north-west coast of Madagascar, females tend to be larger than males.
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It's a lot of fun to visit Snopes and read the incredibly outrageous crapola that people actually believe is true and in many cases, spend an inordinate amount of effort and time trying to convince others it's true. If you've ever been "victimized" by a chain email promoting some dire warning or desperate plea based on complete malarkey and you've dared to hit "Reply All" or post on a forum the truth and nothing but the truth, you know you risk becoming Public Enemy Number One. People are in love with their legends, after all. Only a meanyhead would insist on telling the truth.So with pure meanyheadedness in mind, here's another smattering of "stuff" that Snopes either confirms or denies. You'll have to visit the webpage for that particular claim to see its full answer.CLAIM: "Newspaper reporter falls for the old 'Heywood Jablome' funny name gag." ANSWERCLAIM: "Geraldo Rivera was born Jerry Rivers but changed his name to appeal to Latino viewers." ANSWER CLAIM: "An Oregon girl's message-in-a-bottle was found by a boy in Hawaii." ANSWER CLAIM: "Girl impales herself on gearshift lever after being slipped some Spanish Fly by her boyfriend." ANSWERCLAIM: "A speeder caught by photo radar mails the police a picture of money to pay his fine." ANSWERCLAIM: "Quick-thinking cop has a bit of fun with a drunk stuck in the snow by pretending to run alongside his car." ANSWERCLAIM: "As a teenager, Colin Powell learned to speak Yiddish while working in a Jewish-owned baby equipment store in New York." ANSWERCLAIM: "A foreign family unknowingly consumes the ashes of a relative shipped to them for burial." ANSWERCLAIM: "A swelling on a girl's cheek breaks open and disgorges hundreds of baby spiders." ANSWERCLAIM: "A vengeful co-worker made it his practice to urinate into the office coffee pot." ANSWERCLAIM: "Service station customers are getting stuck by HIV-loaded syringes affixed to gas pump handles." ANSWERCLAIM: "Venomous snakes lurk in the ball pits of fast food restaurants." ANSWERCLAIM: "Man high on drugs slices off pieces of his face and feeds them to his dogs." ANSWERCLAIM: "Infants have died or suffered debilitating respiration problems after aspirating baby oil." ANSWERCLAIM: "The charred remains of a scuba diver were discovered in a tree after a forest fire." ANSWER
A seven-legged calf was born at a veterinary hospital in Steamboat Springs, Colo., on Thursday, according to the Steamboat Pilot & Today.The staff at the Steamboat Veterinary Hospital said the Black Angus calf, which was delivered by cesarean section, had two spines but one head. One leg also had two hooves.The calf lived for only about 10 minutes.Veterinarian Lee Meyring says the birth was an incomplete splitting of the embryo into twins.MORE...