Hong Kong Bus Driver Performs Miracle Multitasking Feat

They say that only women can truly multitask.

That statement was easily proven false, however, when this bus driver in Hong Kong skillfully amazed netizens by reading a newspaper, listening to the radio, eating his breakfast and taking calls at the same time.

Most impressive was that he did all of this while successfully driving the bus in heavy traffic!

Sex With Dogs, Horses, Calves & More: What in the World Is Going On These Days?

This has been a banner month for zoophilia as people accused of sex with just about every animal in the zoo are popping up in courtrooms across the nation.

One of the strangest cases involves a doctor accused of having sex with a patient.

In most cases, that would be merely unethical.

In this case, however, Thomas Barret Lyle Wilson isn't a regular doc -- he's a veterinarian, and his "patient" was a horse.

Actually, it was a horse in a training center, and the owners allegedly caught him in the act by watching a live video feed.

"I'm glad you caught me. I need help," he said, according to an affidavit quoted by the The Daily O'Collegian.

But 28-year-old Wilson isn't the only one making headlines for bestiality. There's a cop accused of doing it with calves... a mayor's sun who's "into" German shepherds and even a guy with an affinity for rottweilers.

I won't even pet a rottweiler.

Spiny, Venomous New Sea Snake Discovered—"Something Special"

A new species of venomous sea snake mysteriously covered head to tail in spiny scales has been discovered in treacherous seas off northern Australia, a new study says.

Though some other sea snakes have spiky scales on their bellies, "no other [known] sea snake has this curious feature," study leader Kanishka Ukuwela, an ecologist at the University of Adelaide, said by email.

Normally snakes have smooth scales, but each of the newly named Hydrophis donaldi's scales has a spiny projection, he said.

Scientists cruising shallow seagrass beds in the Gulf of Carpentaria (map) recently captured nine of the rough-scaled reptiles.

"The minute the first one landed on the deck, I knew we had something special," study co-author Bryan Fry of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, said by email. "It was quite unlike any of the sea snakes I have seen."

Each of the specimens was found on the rocky seafloor, a habitat that could explain the new species' uniquely strong scales, Fry noted.

Overall, though, "we don't know why this interesting feature evolved in this species, or what they are used for," study leader Ukuwela said.

New Amphibians Without Arms or Legs Discovered

They aren't worms or even snakes. They're soil-burrowing, limblessamphibians, and they're completely new to science, a new study suggests.

Pictured guarding a brood of eggs in its native northeastern India, the animal above is one of about six potentially new species belonging to a mysterious group of animals called caecilians. What's more, the newfound critters represent an entirely new family of amphibians—family being the next major level up from genus and species in scientific naming conventions—according to findings announced today by the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Christened Chikilidae ("Chikila" being a local tribal name for caecilians), the family's closest relatives live more than 7,000 miles (11,265 kilometers) away in tropical Africa, the study team reported.