With its goggling eyes and signature smiley face, the axolotl became Japan's favorite water creature after it was featured in a TV ad in the 1980s. At iZoo, a facility in Kawazu, Shizuoka ...

DALLAS — The place where the dead may be brought back to life is a drab, single-story building in an office park next to a semitruck lot. Inside, between rows of incubators and microscopes, Beth ...

And so now we talk about being 'as dead as a dodo.' But in spite of its fame, this one is a fake. Its feathers come from a goose. Its feet were modeled on a turkey and its beak, I suspect, is plaster.