KARNATAKA, INDIA – A mutated human? An alien hybrid? What is it?!

It’s just Ashes, the hairless chimpanzee! Ashes is a 13 year old chimp that lives at the Mysore Zoo in India.

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Ashes was born with fur like any other chimpanzee. But by just a year old, he had lost all of it! While he is somewhat frightening, it is a wonderful opportunity to be able to see a chimp’s musculature.

Ashes is not the only one of his rare kind. Another hairless chimp called Cinder was born at the Saint Louis Zoo in Missouri. Also born with full hair, she soon lost it but was still readily accepted by the other chimps.

Both animals suffer from alopecia universalis, which is also found among humans! Sadly, Cinder passed away this past February, so curious visitors will have to travel to India to get a peek at Ashes.

PUY-EN VELAY, FRANCE -  A baby woolly mammoth, one of the oldest intact mammoths every found, is now on display in a French museum.

Baby Khroma, as the mammoth has been named, had spent tens of thousands of years under the Siberian frost and now is taking a summer break in the southeast of France.  Baby Khroma is 80-centimeter-high, 1.6-meter-long (1-foot-high, 5-foot-long) prehistoric mammal may be the oldest baby mammoth ever discovered. Carbon dating methods failed to determine its age, suggesting it is more than 50,000 years old, said French researchers and Sergei Gorbunov, project coordinator for the Geneva-based International Mammoth Committee. Russian news reports have said it is 32,000 years old.

The mammoth is Khroma is on display at the Musee Crozatier in Puy-en-Velay in a special cryogenic chamber kept at -18 degrees C (-0.40 Fahrenheit).

Such mammoths offer scientists the opportunity to do analysis that they cannot carry out on skeletons, such as studying stomach contents and fur. Putting them on display gives a broader public a tangible link to the prehistoric past.  Baby Khroma was dug out last year from the Yakutia region in Siberia and was brought to France as part of a Franco-Russian cross-cultural event.

The mammoth was delayed by three weeks after concerns surfaced about the transfer of an animal that might contain lethal bacteria. Russia’s chief epidemiologist, Gennady Onishchenko, said the mammoth died of anthrax, according to Russian news reports. Russian scientists carried out further study of the risks involved, and the trip was given the go-ahead, Gorbunov said.

After arriving in France, Khroma went to a special conservation facility in Grenoble, where it underwent gamma ray treatment for eliminating any potentially lethal bacteria. The presence of anthrax could not be confirmed from the first studies, but the treatment was used as a precaution, said the museum’s paleontologist, Frederic Lacombat. “It will undergo further isotope analysis in France to try to pin down its age – and its gender, up to now unclear.”

“It’s a unique discovery,” Gorbunov told The Associated Press by telephone. “Any discovery of a new mammoth gives us new scientific information about prehistory.”

Similar enthusiasm was felt six months ago in the United States when a 42,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth named Lyuba arrived at the Field Museum in Chicago, where it is still on display. The practically intact specimen, discovered in 2007 in Siberia as well, is the best-preserved of her kind, according to researchers.

RUNAWAY BAY, TX – A man in Texas found what he believes to be a chupacabra on a golf course!

Tony Potter was on the Runaway Bay golf course when he noticed something lying near hole 14. Upon closer inspection, it was a dead, unknown creature!

It is a brown, hairless animal with inch-long toes, curved claws, long hind legs and oversize canine teeth.

“This is a weird little critter,” Potter said. “This is not a coyote. This is not a dog.”

It has none of the accompanying lesions that occur with mange, the usual explanation for debunking chupacabra findings. Unsure of what it was, he took it to a veterinarian, who also was unable to identify it.

Chupacabra sightings generally occur in the States in Texas. Potter believes this specimen is a juvenile male.

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PLUM ISLAND, NY – A human body has washed up on Plum Island, which houses the government’s secret lab for diseases!

Police have stated that the body of a white male was found Thursday afternoon on the southwest beach of the island. The clothed body, found by a security guard, was of a partially decomposed 6 foot tall man, with a large build and very long fingers.

Police also said there were no obvious fatal injuries.

The island hosts the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, which is at the center of a number of conspiracy theories. The official goal of the center is to study and protect America’s livestock from certain diseases, however it has been revealed that during the Cold War, a secret biological weapons program was tested there.

The island has most recently been in the news as the potential origins of the Montauk Monster, a mysterious creature that washed ashore in Montauk, Long Island. A second bizarre creature washed ashore in Long Island last year, also very close to Plum Island.

While authorities have not made any connection between the man’s death and the suspicious nature of the island, conspiracy theorists have already begun questioning the nature of his death.

LAWNDALE, CA – A California city is considering removing the local garlic plants, but one councilman is firmly against it.

Lawndale, Cali. spent millions of dollars about eight years ago to redevelop the main boulevard area. This included flying in and planting garlic plants, to line the block of 147th Street and Hawthorne Boulevard.

Why the city council picked such an odd plant is unclear. But now, city residents are sick of the disgusting smell and want them removed, at a cost of $35,000.

However, city councilman Jim Ramsey has a very good argument for keeping the plants.

Watch below to hear his case:

KEENE, NH – A man who dressed up as Bigfoot for an art performance was kicked out of a state park!

Jonathan Doyle is a local New Hampshire artist and videographer. He, along with some other participants, dressed up as the creature Bigfoot for an art project in Monadnock State Park.

Doyle has since filed an official complaint with the state parks department after a park ranger expelled him and his group from the park! The ranger said they did not have a permit for such activities.

Doyle has joined forces with the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union Foundation to claim a violation of his free-speech rights. The artist claims they were on a lesser-used trail and weren’t bothering other park visitors in any way.

The Division of Parks and Recreation have yet to respond.

BEIJING – A Chinese man who teaches monkeys martial arts for entertainment was taught his own lesson!

Lo Wung works in Enshi, in the Hubei province in China. He trains a set of moneys in taekwando, to entertain shoppers outside a shopping center.

However, one passerby happened to have his camera ready when the monkeys turned on Wung!

Said Hu Luang, “I saw one punch him in the eye – he grabbed another by the ear and it responded by grabbing his nose.

“They were leaping and jumping all over the place – it was better than a Bruce Lee film.”

After swarming Wung, one of the monkeys even grabbed a stick and whacked Wung on the head with it!

Wung finally got the monkeys under control by throwing rope around them. Said Luang, “He was really furious, he made the monkeys kneel on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs to punish them and make them show remorse for their nasty attack.”

MIAMI, FL – A man won the lottery, and instead of sharing it with his wife, he disappeared!

Arnim Ramdass won a $19 million lotto jackpot with 16 other American Airlines air mechanics. Instead of sharing his joy, he hid the win from his wife and soon vanished!

He stopped paying the mortgage and bills, and his wife, Donna Campbell, is being forced out of her home.

One kind act has come from Campbell’s awful situation: after hearing about her story, the Allied Van Lines moving company offered to move and store her belongings for free.

She will now move with her sister while her attorney continues to try and serve Ramdass the divorce papers.

SANTA FE, NM – An American woman craves sex 24 hours a day – because of a car accident!

Joleen Baughman, 39, was hurt in a car crash two years ago, when a man on drugs hit her pickup truck head on. She suffered severe injuries and was in the hospital for weeks.

After about six months, Baughman began to notice a strange side effect. What she didn’t know was that a nerve in her pelvis was damaged, which happened to be the one controlling her sexual arousal!

Her husband was initially excited about his wife’s new-found sex drive. However, despite copious amounts of intercourse, he was exhausted and she never felt any release.

It was not until she went to see a doctor that the damaged nerve was discovered. She was officially diagnosed with Restless Genital Syndrome, also called Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome.

“I was very relieved to find out my condition was not psychological,” Baughman said. “For a while I thought I was going crazy or that it was somehow my fault.

“I think a lot of people go through those thoughts with this condition. Being aroused pretty much 24-hours a day is exhausting.”

NEW YORK, NY – CBS cut together a naughty version of Frosty the Snowman, and viewers are outraged!

Frosty the Snowman is an iconic holiday special produced by Rankin/Bass, a well known animation company. First airing in 1969, the thirty-minute cartoon is often rerun every year around Christmas.

CBS thought it would be clever to cut the cartoon with risque dialogue from the comedy How I Met Your Mother, using lines from Neal Patrick Harris’ womanizing character . However, audiences are not reacting well!

Take a look at the video that has been produced: