It's Felis bipedus, spotted on Google Street View and posted here.
I have no idea how this happened, but I'm sure a tech-savvy reader can explain. It apparently involves the compression of images by the Google Street View cars, a vehicle that I never thought about. Matthew Cobb, who sent me the photo and links, also noted that "There's an art form whereby people tool around on street view and see what they can find. Some are funny, others beautiful, others bleak." You can see examples here and here.

The second link explains how they make the street views, a process involving a fleet of hybrid automobiles that cruise the world, each carrying nine cameras on a single pole, with pictures snapped every 10-20 meters. The photos are electronically stitched together, probably explaining the moggie above.

Jenna Krehbiel's first trip to the circus with her family is one she never will forget after she came face to face with a jungle cat in the women's bathroom.

Krehbiel had finished watching the large cat show during the 7 p.m. show at the Isis Shrine Circus on Saturday at the Salina Bicentennial Centennial Center when she decided to step out go to the bathroom but instead got a close-up view of a tiger she had just seen perform in the arena.

"I went in to use the bathroom, and a lady came in to get her daughter out and said there was a tiger loose," Krehbiel said. "I didn't know it was in the bathroom, and I walked in the (open) door, which closed right after I had walked in. I saw the tiger; it was at most two feet in front of me, and I turned around calmly and walked back toward the door. Someone opened the door and said get out."

Krehbiel said the tiger "wasn't the biggest one" performing, but she estimated it was more than 250 pounds.

This owl may have been left wondering if turning her head completely upside down was a very wise thing to do.

The intrigued bird spun her head around as she listened to a camera busily snapping away at her.

The owl, called Minerva, twisted her head in confusion and continued until it had moved a full 180 degrees.
The bizarre sight was captured at the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Missouri, U.S.

Owls cannot move their eyes in their sockets because of their large size that enable them to catch prey in the dark.

Therefore, they rely on a deceptively long and flexible neck that enables them to rotate their heads.

As the sound continued Minerva turned her head a full 180 degrees

The birds can move their head up to 270 degrees in either direction to see their surroundings.

Media critic Mark Dice asks people to sign a petition to ban Muslims from buying pressure cookers in the wake of the Boston Bombing, and to implement a background check before anyone can purchase one.

So there I was having just sat down to dinner in time to catch the beginning of the movie I've been waiting to see. I turned off the phone and computer so as to not have any unwanted distractions while I watched the latest new terminator franchise movie.

The opening credits are just ending, which makes me wonder why they haven't changed that along with everything else, It just makes no sense to splash all that writing all over the screen obscuring the picture I'm trying to see. The same exact lists of names are at the end of the movie, but the ego freaks know nobody would ever see them so they splatter them all over the screen at the beginning too. Damned annoying, if I wanted to read, I would have grabbed a book instead of the remote. But it's all good now as the credits are finished and the action has begun, and looks so damn real on the Double Dolby Plasma HD big screen BluRay home theater. The screen takes up the whole wall; so with the right lighting it just looks like you're looking out a window at real life and the people are all life size. Unfortunately so is the hapless fly buzzing around like some drunk kamikaze pilot trying to fly thru the window to get outside. As soon as that sucker works his way near me, it's gonna be 'instant universe' pal, and good riddance, cause flying bugs strafing the screen are as annoying as opening credits and political campaign ads. Here he comes now, boy is he in for a surprise. Most folks would just black flag that housefly, except what's poison for him is also poison for me so I never use the crap. all you need is a plastic spray bottle full of high test Windex, the stuff with the ammonia in it. When the insect in question is in range I just blast him with a couple shots, when the spray hits his little spiracles it's like liquid-X on a date-rape and he drops to the floor where it's so much easier to step on him.

A list of the most chilling things children say to their parents has become a hit on the online-forum Reddit, gaining more than 10,000 comments in less than 24 hours.

Titled 'What is the creepiest thing your young child has ever said to you?', most of the posts from the forum users - dubbed Redditors - concerned comments about death.

"I was tucking in my two-year-old," said user UnfortunateBirthMark. "He said 'Goodbye dad.' I said, 'No we say good night.' He said, 'I know. But this time it's goodbye."

"Had to check on him a few times to make sure he was still there," added the shocked parent.

User Like-I-was-sayin commented: "My three-year-old daughter stood next to her new born brother and looked at him for a while then turned and looked at me and said, 'Daddy, it's a monster we should bury it."

"Congratulations on giving birth to the antichrist," another Redditor replied.

Two friends, who bonded in Afghanistan, reunited today in Dallas. One is a 25-year-old United States Airman. The other is a six-month-old Afghan hound.

There were smiles, cheers and a lot of tail wagging. It has been a remarkable journey for both of them.

The best of friendships are often forged under the most difficult circumstances.

Tom Burright, an Airman Mechanic from Abilene was stationed in Afghanistan. One day, when he was out on a mission, he spotted a puppy scrounging for food in an alley.

"She was young and helpless. I had to pick her up. I fell in love and put her in the truck and took her home," he said.

Home was the barracks he shared with 15 other guys.

• An Orthodox Jewish plane passenger was seen wrapped in a plastic bag during a flight
• It was believed the man is a Kohein, a religious descendant of the priests of ancient Israel, who are banned from flying over cemeteries
• Fellow passengers strained to see the unusual sight and took pictures

It is not unusual for people to have rituals when flying on a plane, like wearing a St Christopher chain or keeping their eyes closed until they take off.

But one passenger took his beliefs a step further by covering himself in a plastic bag for the whole of his journey because his religion forbids him to fly over cemeteries.

This was the bizarre sight that greeted plane passengers when an Orthodox Jewish man covered himself under a plastic sheet.

It was believed the man is a Kohein, a religious descendant of the priests of ancient Israel, who are banned from flying over cemeteries.

Many wrap themselves in plastic bags as a compromise measure.

The startling photograph, which has now gone viral after being posted on Reddit, shows fellow passengers straining over their seats to get a look.

Beneath his plastic wrapping, the man is dressed entirely in black, and appears to be wearing a Jewish skullcap or 'kippah'.

As a controversial solution - not entirely allowed by those in the Jewish Orthodox - the plastic bag creates a kind of barrier between the Kohein and the surrounding tumah, or impurity.

Rabbi Jeffrey W. Goldwasser, of Temple Beit HaYam in Israel, explained: 'In orthodox and Conservative communities, Kohanim are expected to abstain from coming in contact with the dead, which includes a prohibition on visiting cemeteries except for the funerals of close relatives.'

Even if they can be secured by a seat belt, the passengers wouldn't be able to reach an oxygen mask or quickly escape the plane in the event of an emergency.

There is also the question of how they can breathe.

Pre-punched holes in the plastic are said to invalidate the barrier, according to Jewish newspaper YatedNe'eman.

Police in San Sebastián de la Gomera have cordoned off an abandoned house after finding a seven-metre-long wasp nest.

Officers were called out by worried neighbours of the empty home in the island's capital and say the nest was in an indoor hallway and contained literally millions of wasps.

Experts have examined the nest, which is said to be 21'9" in length, and say the common type of wasp found in gardens would never normally build a nest of this size.

They believe it must be an invasive species of wasp which had migrated from Africa.

The Canary Islands are less than 100 kilometres from Morocco by water.

Authorities have been unable to trace the owner of the house.

Lisa Kilbourne-Smith and boyfriend James Davis were looking after the pet hamster, called Tink, for friends when they found her lying lifeless in her cage.

They thought she was dead and wrapped her body in kitchen roll, dug a 1ft deep grave in their flower bed and laid her to rest.

The pair then phoned Tink's owners Nicki Gamble and Jamie Wynn to break the news that the two-and-a-half-year-old had passed away.

But the next day - Good Friday - Mr Davies called back to announce that the hamster had been 'resurrected' after going into hibernation.

She had eaten her way out of her paper shroud, dug her way out of her grave, edged along a narrow wall and then climbed a waste pipe to land in a recycling box.