FT. MYERS, Fla. -- A Port Charlotte fisherman caught a great hammerhead shark near Boca Grande on Tuesday that could be a new world sport fishing record. Fisherman Bucky Dennis was alone on his boat when the animal took the bait, a 25-pound stingray. Dennis said it took five hours to land the great hammerhead shark after it towed their fishing boat 12 miles from Boca Grande Pass. The female great hammerhead was measured at 14.5 feet long and 1,262 pounds, with its hammer measuring more than three feet across. (05/25/06 WFTV Image)




TYLER, Texas -- Melissa Lanier's pet dog, Piglet, shows her colors in support at the 7th annual Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's Race for the Cure 2006, in Tyler, Texas. Piglet is 14 years old, and herself a canine survior of breast cancer. (05/16/06 AP photo)




MEXICO CITY -- Demonstrators pretend to smoke fake marijuana cigarettes during a protest for the decriminalization of marijuana in La Alameda park, in this May 4, 2002 file photo in Mexico City. Police and business owners from Mexico's beaches to border cities worried that a measure just passed to decriminalize possession of cocaine, heroin and other drugs could attract droves of tourists solely looking to get high. (05/01/06 AP photo)



BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- An explosion envelops the car of Serbian stuntman Zeljko Bozic as he jumps the car from a bridge into the Sava river, in Belgrade. Bozic was taken to the hospital in an unconscious condition after the jump, and his medical condition is unknown at this time. The stunt was performed to advertise packets of potato crisps. (04/28/06 AP photo)




DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA -- A man who would only identify himself as a hitchhiker from New York sits on a street corner in the Georgetown section of Washington DC. The man said lots of people take a look at his sign referring to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and some leave spare change. (04/25/06 AP photo)



PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- Chris Borer demonstrates a snake robot climbing up the inside of a transparent plastic tube in the biorobotics lab at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Borer works with professor Howie Choset who has spent years developing snake-like robots that can slither through collapsed buildings in search of victims trapped after natural disasters or other emergencies. (04/21/06 AP photo)








MEXICO CITY -- A Varig airlines cargo plane from Brazil sits parked at the Mexico City airport with its nose up in the air after the cargo was unevenly distributed. Brazil's troubled flagship airline, Varig, is reeling under an estimated US$3.3 billion (euro2.7 billion) in debt and is currently in the restructuring phase of bankruptcy proceedings and, last April 12, some 300 Varig employees boarded a chartered jet to Brasilia, the nation's capital, to call on the federal government to bail out the company, which employs 11,000 people. (04/17/06 AP photo)





CHICAGO -- This handout photo released by the University of Chicago shows a model of a newly discovered species, Tiktaalik roseae, with a crocodile-like head that apparently moved on land like a seal, an important discovery for understanding how fish evolved into land animals with four limbs and a backbone. (04/10/06 AP photo)







AUSTIN, Minn. -- Devin Haskin, 3, plays inside the Toy Chest claw machine at Godfather's Pizza after crawling through the toy discharge chute. The boy ended up getting stuck amid all the toys. Firefighters pried the door open to get the boy out. The child was not hurt. (03/28/06 AP Photo/KAAL TV)




NEW YORK -- A sports utility vehicle is stuck in a sinkhole in the Brooklyn section of New York after a water main break caused the street to give way. The driver of the vehicle was not seriously injured, according to the fire department. (03/27/06 AP photo)



CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Lance Palmer, a 140-pound high school wrestler who is a four-time Ohio champ, takes on Ceaser, a 650-pound black bear during an exhibition wrestling match at a sportsmen's show at the IX Center in Cleveland. (03/22/06 AP photo




KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii -- In this photo provided by the Porter family, Colleen Porter shows off her record-setting mango, which was harvested in October. Porter has a certificate from the Guinness Book of World Records for growing the world's heaviest mango, 5 pounds, 7 ounces (about 2.5 kilograms). (03/14/06 AP photo)

MILAN, N.H. -- In this photo provided by the Berlin Police Department, Don Valliere, maintenance man for the Berlin Police, balances himself as he uses bolt cutters to free a moose that got tangled up in swingset. (03/13/06 AP photo)


 

PARIS -- This photo released by the IFREMER (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) shows a new crustacean called "Kiwa hirsuta". The eyeless shellfish, about 15cm long, was discovered in March 2005 during a diving mission led by American researcher Robert Vrijenhoek, of the MBARI Institute, in hydrothermal vents of the Pacific Antartic Ridge, south of Easter Island. (03/08/06 AP photo)

GWINNETT, Ga. -- A fan's Runaway Bride bobblehead doll received at the Gwinnett Gladiators hockey game at the Arena at Gwinnett Center, is shown. Like the woman who inspired their creation, Runaway Bride bobblehead dolls disappeared quickly during a sports promotion in the town that was at the center of the national search for Jennifer Wilbanks. The dolls, given to the first 1,000 people through the doors at the Gwinnett Gladiators hockey game Sunday, were gone in about 10 minutes. (03/06/06 AP photo)
 

MALIBU, Calif. -- A Los Angeles County sheriff inspects the wreckage of a rare Ferrari Enzo that crashed on the Pacific Coast Highway Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006, in Malibu, Calif. The red Ferrari, estimated to be worth more than $1 million, was going at least 100 mph when the driver lost control and struck a power pole, investigators said. Sheriff's investigators identified the owner as Stefan Ericksson, 44, of Bel Air, who escaped the wreck with only a cut lip. (03/03/06 AP photo)

 

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Dressed in drag portraying Paula Abdul of "American Idol", San Francisco Giants' left fielder Barry Bonds, center, participates in a rookie hazing spoof of the hit television show beside pitcher Jeff Fassero, left, as Simon Cowell, and second baseman Ray Durham, right, as judge Randy Jackson prior to a Major League baseball spring training workout. (03/01/06 AP photo)




LOS ANGELES -- This photo released by the Los Angeles Zoo shows Willy, a 10-year-old, 187-pound Red River porcine, right, nuzzling his new companion Nicole, a 16-year-old bongo antelope, in their exhibit at the zoo in Los Angeles. Willy's mate Ruby died last summer of cancer and within a week the hog turned to the antelope for companionship. (02/24/06 AP photo)




NEW YORK -- In this photo provided by Hasbro, the latest Star Wars Mr. Potato Head character 'Artoo Potatoo' is shown for the first time in Hasbro's showroom at the American International Toy Fair. Behind 'Artoo Potatoo' are the previously released characters 'Spud Trooper,' left, and 'Darth Tater,' right. (02/15/06 AP photo)




BRUSSELS, Belgium -- In this photo released by the Czech artist David Cerny, his sculpture of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is shown on display. The sculpture, which depicts a tied-up Saddam Hussein floating in a water tank, was banned by the mayor of a western Belgian town because it was deemed too controversial, an official said. The sculpture was to be displayed in the coastal town of Middelkerke during the Beaufort 2006 arts festival starting April 1. (02/07/06 AP photo)



ORLANDO, Fla. -- Firefighters in Orlando had to save a burglary suspect who was trying to climb down the chimney of a convenience store on West Washington Street and got stuck. (02/03/06 WFTV image)
 

COLUMBIA -- In this photo released by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, six of the ten puppies who were used by Colombian drug Traffickers as canine drug mules are shown in the back of a pick-up truck in Colombia. The ten puppies, including Labrador retrievers, were rescued during a recent raid on a laboratory in Colombia where authorities claim that they were being surgically implanted with packets of liquid heroin and transported to the United States, federal authorities said. (02/02/06 AP photo)

 

MEXICO CITY -- A thousand pound bull named Pajarito ("Little Birdy") jumps into the stands during a Mexico City bullfight, in Mexico City, injuring several spectators before it was killed. The bullfight resumed 30 minutes after the incident, which occurred during the second fight of the day during one of Mexico City's most popular weekend sporting events. (01/31/06 AP photo)




WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- This photo provided by the Westminster, Colo. Police Department, shows Westminster Police Officer Mark Watters displaying a mannequin that was confiscated from a driver who was arrested for allegedly driving in a high-occupancy vehicle lane with the mannequin dressed to look like a passenger. (01/27/06 AP photo)




SUMATRA, Indonesia -- This photo released by Carnol, Switzerland and Raffles Museum, shows the world's smallest fish on record that was found in an acidic peat swamp in Indonesia. The fish is a member of the carp family, has a see-through body and a head that is unprotected by a skeleton, researchers said. (01/25/06 AP photo)

 

TOKYO -- Hamster named Gohan, right, and snake Aochan live togther in a cardboard box at Mutsugoro Okoku zoo, outskirts of Tokyo. Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 9 centimeter dwarf hamster; the other is a 120 centimeter-long (yard-long) ratsnake. Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster - whose name means "meal" in Japanese - to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice. But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair have shared a cage since. (01/18/06 AP photo)


 

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A transgenic green pig jostles normal pigs in Taipei, Taiwan. A research team at Taiwan's leading National Taiwan University succeeded in breeding three male green pigs by injecting fluorescent green protein into embryonic pigs. There are partially green pigs elsewhere in the world but those three pigs are the only ones that are green from inside out, including their hearts and internal organs. (01/12/06 AP photo)

 

REDMOND, Ore. -- Cy, short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, Oregon, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. The kitten, a ragdoll breed, which died after living for one day, was one of two in the litter. Its sibling was born normal and healthy. (01/09/06 AP photo


 

ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Leonard Sonnenschein, president of the World Aquarium in St. Louis, holds We, a two-headed albino rat snake. Sonnenschein has decided to sell the reptile, and bidding on e-Bay will start at $150,000. The 6-year-old snake came to the aquarium's attention when its previous owner distributed a circular offering it for sale days after its birth. The aquarium paid $15,000, knowing full well that most two-headed snakes don't live more than a few months. (01/03/06 AP photo)

 

MOMBASA, Kenya -- A baby hippo named Owen walks along with its 'mother', a giant male Aldabran tortoise, at the Mombasa Haller Park. The odd couple have stayed together now for one year after they got together after Kenya Wildlife Service rangers rescued the baby hippo in the sea off Malindi after the Asian tsumani reached the Kenyan shore and separated the calf from its mother. (12/29/05 AP photo)










CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison slams a fan to the turf after he ran onto the field during the fourth quarter of the Steelers' 41-0 NFL win over the Cleveland Browns Saturday, Dec. 24, 2005, in Cleveland. (12/27/05)