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Wednesday, Oct 24, 2012 08:44 PM PDT
Today's Odd News - Reuters News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Rare "headless" ladybug discovered in Montana South African in toenail campaign to clip rhino deaths North Korea's Air Koryo opens online booking

Rare "headless" ladybug discovered in Montana  Wednesday, Oct 24, 2012 08:44 PM PDT SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Sleepy Hollow has its headless horseman and now Montana has a headless ladybug. The newly discovered insect tucks its head into its throat - making it not only a new species but an entirely new genus, or larger classification of plants and animals. Ross Winton captured the insect in 2009 in traps he set in a sand dune while an entomology graduate student at Montana State University. Winton, now a wildlife technician in Idaho, at first thought he had parts of an ant but then discovered the bug can hide its head, much like a turtle ducking into its shell. ... Full Story	Top
South African in toenail campaign to clip rhino deaths  Wednesday, Oct 24, 2012 08:59 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African film production designer armed with a nail cutter is trying to help stamp out rhino poaching by sending toenail clippings to the Chinese embassy in Pretoria. Mark Wilby said he wants to make the point that rhino horn, which sells for prices higher than gold as a traditional Chinese medicine, is made up of keratin - a protein which is a component in human nails and hair. "I felt that we have moved beyond the time of politeness. ... Full Story	Top
North Korea's Air Koryo opens online booking  Wednesday, Oct 24, 2012 08:04 AM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - The world's only one star airline, North Korea's Air Koryo, has finally joined the Internet age with an online booking service, offering flights to and from the isolated state to Beijing and Shenyang in China as well as Vladivostok in Russia. The website (http://www.airkoryo.com.kp/en/home) says it started operations in August and promises "a convenient reservation ... day and night". Air Koryo is the only airline ranked as a one-star service by Skytrax global airline ranking, a rating that represents "very poor quality performance". ... Full Story	Top

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