45 mice, 15 newts, eight gerbils and a handful of snails returned to Earth today after a month in space in a Russian capsule. The Bion-M completed a parachute-assisted landing about 750 miles southeast of Moscow, and researchers immediately set up a mobile lab near the capsule to begin tests on the animals.

That is a moth, driving a car. The steering wheel is a ball, and the moth walks along the ball to make it go places.

Oh god, China.

A 10-foot, half-ton elephant seal stopped traffic for about an hour as it crossed the street in the coastal city of Balneario Camboriu earlier this week.

UGH. Lewis Hamilton, the 2008 Formula One World Champion, has a painfully cute dog named Roscoe.

A Florida woman was driving down the turnpike to Miami last Thursday when she hit a Great Horned Owl. Though it was trapped behind the SUV's grill for a full day, the bird was not harmed.

At the Classic Car Club Manhattan the other night, there were portly little piggies. Here's one sidled up with an AMG Gullwing. Squee!

Much like Ferrari's new lion-based 458 Italia security system, here is a lion sitting on top of a Mercedes SLS AMG. Wait, what?

Today we saw Toyota joking that its GT86 doesn't care about dodging moose. What if you didn't want to dodge a moose but drive completely under one?

Arab Motors TV and the Gold Rush Rally have unveiled this image of Ferrari's new security system consisting of a lion that sits on top of your car. That's it. Just a lion on your Ferrari.