Two high school boys swallowed goldfish at a school assembly, which is infuriating local animal rights groups. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are urging Federal Way Public Schools to adopt a district-wide policy prohibiting the use of animals in school functions.

Two high school boys swallowed goldfish at a school assembly, which is infuriating local animal rights groups. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are urging Federal Way Public Schools to adopt a district-wide policy prohibiting the use of animals in school functions.

A Moroccan archaeologist team excavates a human skeleton dating back 11,000 to 12,000 years in a cave in Tafoghalt, Berkane. One of the skeletons was buried with a horn of a barbary sheep, an animal once abundant in the region during the prehistoric age.

The animal kingdom's most popular gay couple no longer exists, now that Silo and Roy, the cohabiting penguins of Central Park Zoo, have called it quits. The pair rose to recognition six years ago when they "came out" with their same-sex relationship. Since then, they successfully hatched and raised an adoptive chick, after unsuccessfully trying to incubate a rock.

A Fort Lauderdale veterinarian had seen strange items in the stomachs of dogs before, but a 13-inch serrated knife that was swallowed by a 6-month old puppy was a new one. "I was just flabbergasted," says veterinarian Jon-Paul Carew of Imperial Point Animal Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel