Weird Photos You May Have Missed
World's largest potato, Santa feeding fish, hippos eating pumpkins, and more...
Page updated April 19, 2010
World's largest potato? Lebanese farmer holds potato weighing almost 25lbs.
He hopes its a Guiness record.
Sara the walrus and her trainer, Sergiy in Istanbul, Turkey.
Ring-tailed lemurs warm in front of electric heater.
Mitsubishi's humanoid robot, Momoko, and actress Minako Inoue
The cook claims it's the world's biggest bowl of "bak kut teh"
Mermaid drips with icicles outside the Nauticus maritime and science museum,
Norfolk, Virginia, November 22, 2008.
Santa feeds moray eel and spotted eagle ray,
Sunshine International aquarium, Tokyo, Japan.
Tattooed pigs at play near Beijing; After display and slaughter, skins are sold to art collectors.
Guests at press conference on sanitation and hygiene.
No kidding, this is actually a welcome for HRH Princess Anne, during a visit to
the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals in Christchurch.
Liman Souaibou in Garoua, Cameroon, on back of his hippo named "Africa."
Liman has trained Africa for 16 years to be friendly to children.
A white Beluga whale is decorated for Christmas in Yokohama, Japan.
Breeders and shepherds show off 2500 sheep in Marseille, France.
Bolivans celebrate "time of death" by decorating skulls of their relatives or unknown people,
and making offerings to honor the ancestors every year on Nov. 8. (Macabre, or just ghastly?)
A new species of gecko at France's Natural History Museum in Paris.
This specimen is from an egg found in a forest of a large S. Pacific island east of Australia.
A squirrel in Omaha, NE pauses at attention while stealing a flag.
A Chinese man uses acupuncture needles to display planes at
the International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, Nov. 8, 2008.
In Philadelphia, a close-up view of the new Guinness Record for a pinata.
The mock donkey measures 60' 4" long; 23' 10.5" wide; 61' 10.25" tall.
A contestant scampers down a ramp at a sheep beauty contest in Saudi Arabia.
The male-only audience (really?) checks for beauty features.
No word on what happens next.
Manuel Uribe, 43, is driven in a forklift to a dance hall in Monterey, Mexico to marry Claudia Solis.
Uribe used to weigh 1230 lbs., a Guinness world record. He lost 550 lbs. with Solis' help.
Contortionist Alexey Goloborodko at the China Wuhan Intl. Acrobatics Art Festival.
Killed by lightning, 52 cows lie along a fence in Valdez Chico near San Jose, Uruguay.
I'm speechless. I lived on a small remote farm in NC before WW II. We grounded barbwire
fences, even chickenwire fences, back then. This happend in 2008! What is going on?
Gunther von Hagens' "Body Worlds And The Mirror Of Time" exhibition at
the O2 bubble in London, England.
Meirav Stardinner receives a snake message from Ada Barak's snake spa in Talmei Elazar, Israel.
Makeup artist Kazuhiro Tsuji poses with bust he created of makeup artist Dick Smith.
Chilean magicians Jean Paul Olaverry, left, and Nicolas Luisetti "walk up a pole."
Nik Wallenda, a 7th generation "Flying Wallenda," on a high-wire.
Cholla, the painting horse, works on his latest masterpiece.
A visitor peeks at a chicken sculpture at the Fourth West China Cultural Industry Expo.
"Chicken Nuggets" from artist Banksy's new installation:
"The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill" in NYC.
A child practices self mortification at the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand.
The Conservation Law Foundation has asked NOAA to list the Atlantic wolffish endangered.
Albert, age 15, gulps a pumpkin in Cologne Zoo, Germany. Kavango, only 6, must wait his turn.
Ron Mueck's "Mask II" is unveiled at the British Museum in London.
French "Spider Man" Alain Robert climbs a building of the National Library in Paris.
An Iraqi girl shows off her toy weapon to a group of Iraqi police officers.
Tranquilized in the backyard of a home in Casper, Wyoming.
At 7', 8.95" this herdsman from Inner Mongolia is Guinness' tallest man.
Bao Xishun and his pregnant wife, Xia Shujian, are shown here
strolling their neighborhood.
On Sept. 20, 2008, about 200 paratroopers jumped in the Netherlands to commemorate
Operation Market Garden in World War II, the largest airborne operation of all time.
If you're inclined to save the planet with one of these....
....understand the risk.
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