It’s amazing how a thick layer of fat transforms the most hideous, gangly animal into something you can’t resist hugging. Plump hippos, wrinkled elephants, morbidly obese pugs, and waddling penguins are examples of animals that are all incredibly popular. This is quite possibly...

In a previous post we mentioned how the unicorn legend may have begun with the narwhal. These peculiar whales deserve a little more attention, though. They have lived in the unicorn’s shadow long enough and I’m sure they’ve gotten pretty sick and tired of rarely receiving...

In mythology and ancient literature throughout Greece, Europe and Asia, unicorns were depicted as powerful and fierce animals. Their description varies by region and time-period, but unicorns typically galloped around on cloven hooves, while flicking away flies with a lion’s tail. Some...

I was lying in bed wondering how anyone could possibly fall asleep in the stifling heat. And then I heard it… Bzzzzzzzzzzzzz My red eyes popped open, bulging out of their sockets. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzz I woke up and flailed around wildly. The buzzing stopped. The silence would have been...

Living in the Middle East, I didn’t have a lot of English books to choose from as a kid, and for some reason or another I ended up with titles like “Weird Crap You Are Better Off Not Reading About”, “True Horror Stories”, “Haunted Houses”,...