A Thai chef in London triggered fears of a chemical attack among local restaurant patrons when smoke from his eye-watering hot chilli sauce led to the emergency services being called out Wednesday, reports said. The Thai chef Chalemchai Tangjariyapoon, who works at the Thai Cottage restaurant in the entertainment district of Soho, was cooking up bird's eye chillies as he prepared a huge batch of nam prik pao, a Thai's cuisine exotic food, an extra-hot dip served with prawn crackers.

Atlanta airport security officers were shocked when they found strange critters while screening luggage. When they opened the luggage, they found venomous creatures inside. Jon Allen, Transportation Security Administration spokesman said, a man flying from South Korea to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport had 30 dead snakes in jars and bottles inside boxes when they checked his luggage.

An eight-year-old Moluccan cockatoo in the animal sanctuary in Indiana has learned to bad mouth people visiting her at the park. Peaches is one of the main attractions at the animal sanctuary but staffers said people have to watch their mouths, because the cockatoo has a habit of repeating words that she hears. Pine Animal Park say she was a household pet before she was taken on,and she already picked up a vocabulary as colorful as her feathers.

Commuters on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia had no choice but to reach for their camera phones when an injured hawk caused traffic jam for on Thursday morning. The 8-week-old female red-tail hawk, which was found with a broken wing on the highway, required a rescue effort that contributed to delays of about 15 minutes. According to AP reports, a team from Pennsylvania Game Commission rescued the bird at about 9:30 am and took it to the Webbed Foot Wildlife Clinic. The bird will be treated or euthanized, depending on the severity of its injury.

When it comes to having sex, dinosaurs didn't have to wait until they were fully grown to start mating. Rather, they preferred to mate quite early in their teenage. A latest research by American palaeontologists has found that bird-like dinosaurs reached sexual maturity earlier than their physical features were developed and until engaged in the sexual activity early in their youths.