An elephant crushed a 13-year-old boy to death at a Paraguay zoo. Guillermo Gonzalez entered the animal's cage to feed it a mango, but the elephant stomped the boy to death before a trainer could save him.

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest remains of African slaves in the Americas. They were found in a graveyard dating between the late-16th century and mid-17th century in Mexico. This was shortly after Columbus first landed in the Americas, reports LiveScience. com.

Animal rights activists staged a nude protest Saturday in northeastern Barcelona to demonstrate against the torture and killing of animals to make fur coasts. 70 men and women curled up on the pavement outside Barcelona's City Hall. The protest, staged by AnimaNaturalis and PETA international animal rights groups, was watched by several dozen passers-by. In a statement, AnimaNaturalis said millions of animals were captured, tortured and killed each year to make fur coats. In Spain alone, 26 million animals - among them rabbits, foxes, minks and lambs - were killed in 2003 to make coats, the group said.

An activist for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was arrested Wednesday afternoon in downtown Minneapolis, not for her protesting, but for her chosen attire, or lack there of, while doing it. A nude Michelle Y. Cho, 24, of Los Angeles, while protesting outside the Minnesota Pork Congress, labeled her exposed body parts to represent cuts of meat and sat below a banner reading, "All Animals Have the Same Parts. Go Vegetarian. "

Biologists have discovered 27 new animal species in Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. Spiders, centipedes, and animals resembling scorpions were found during a three year study of thirty caves in the California national parks.