In the sometime occasional series by Professor Norton Folgate there have been many fascinating and intriguing topics and today's is no exception.
With the startling news that there may or may not be a Lion on the loose in Essex, innit, we thought it would be fairly topical to ask the Professor on his theory on Lions and what would make one want to escape from the relative comfort, or maybe disc...
A lion has been sighted roaming in Essex. He is thought to have escaped from a zoo in Colchester where he was being ill treated.
Information coming to our news desk suggests the lion is headed for East London where he wants a meeting with the West...
Apple Computers have revealed that Mountain Lion downloads have topped three million in the first week.
"I didn't realise that there were that many mountain lions in the world," said head of development, Ellie James. "When I last checked there we...
There are many amazing untold tales of World War II. Perhaps one of the most extraordinary is that of the Airborne Lions, a British parachute regiment commanded by Field Marshal Montgomery. They only flew one mission before they were disbanded, but that mission was to prove critical to the war's outcome.
The idea for the mission came from Churchill himself, who believed that air-dropping a numb...
ISSAQUAH, WA-Cougars, long since held as nature's third coolest cat (behind lions and tigers, respectively), have recently come into a bit of an identity crisis. This is due in large part to the recent branding of 40-somethings who romantically t...
A British father has been applauded for his quick thinking which saved his family from savage, hungry lions in Tanzania.
Whilst on the holiday of a lifetime, the Philbin family's tour bus broke down, deep in the Serengeti. As the driver radioed f...
Disaster struck at the Lady Gaga Memorial Zoo in Los Angeles today, when a group of animal rights activists were eaten alive by lions. The group call themselves Animals Shouldn't Suffer, Help Uncage Life on Earth (ASSHULE) and they are against what t...
The local police chief in Zanesville, Ohio, the site of the wild animal escape and slaughter has announced that half of the carcasses have been stolen in the dead of night from the Columbus Zoo morgue. At the present time, no one has been incarcerat...
London - The ZSL London Zoo has confirmed that Taber Hemingway was killed quite viciously by sloths. Zoo security and Scotland Yard are still investigating what happened exactly. The security tapes in the Rain Forrest section of the zoo caught the at...
Pride Rock, Pride Lands: Protests that have already rocked African countries including Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have now spread to the kingdom of Pride Lands.
The country has been ruled by "Lion King" Simba since a 1994 coup that saw the violent o...
It has always been the believe of most humans, that animals, don't have feelings but that myth, was without a doubt blown away recently when a group of chimpanzees, were filmed caring for a dying female chimp, at Blair Drummond Safari Park in Stirlingshire.
As the elderly female chimp called Pansy, lay dying others in the group stroked her head and made her comfortable. Her daughter Rosie, even...
Narnia's lion, Aslan, is planning to put in a bid to run a main railway line as a not-for-profit business.
The East Coast mainline which runs from London to Scotland via Leeds was nationalised last year after being run by Sauron and the Nine Rider...
HOLLYWOOD - MGM has announced that they are replacing their Leo the Lion studio logo mascot.
Leo has been MGM's mascot since 1916. He had gone through several lion generations in his colorful 93 year history but due to the sagging economy and dwin...
An evil Glaswegian pervert who killed three cats appeared in court yesterday and will be sentenced next month. The unnamed pervert, a fat bastard who can't find a girlfriend allegedly got his kicks from torturing cats, and in three cases killing them...
The Detroit Lions, the first NFL team to ever go 0-16 in a season and holders of the worst record over the last eight seasons, had the first pick in this weekend's NFL draft. As a surprise to no one, they chose a quarterback in the first round. The...
On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles darwin and the 150th celebration of the publication of his Origin of the Species, subjects believed to be members of the British species expressed some interesting views on the beginnings of life on ea...
London Zoo became the first zoo to lose more than 100 lions for the season after losing 11 lions during the Xmas period.
The lions had already sealed the zoo league's worst-ever year with last Sunday's 3 lion loss.
They join the 1976 Bristol...
Today, in Rome, President George W Bush was thrown to the lions by a group of devout Christians.
'It had to happen', the Right Reverend Ludicrus Pompey said, 'Bush had turned our religion into a laughing stock, and not even a very highly-priced s...