When you're a fish, the selection of kitchen gadgets available to you is somewhat limited. You've pretty much got a choice between rocks, and nothing else. For the first time, a fish has been caught on film using a rock as a tool to open up a clam, making it a member of the exclusive club of tool-using animals.

Video cameras have been getting getting smaller, cheaper, and more durable, making them more appetizing to consumers. These characteristics also seem to make them more appetizing to animals, and there's been a spate of burglaries over the last few years involving critters scarpering off with electronics. As expected, it's all been caught on tape.

The Piccadilly Circus was in Joplin, Missouri when the tornado hit. Wanting help out somehow, the circus volunteered their elephants to join in the cleanup, but from the sound of things, many Joplin residents would have preferred one of them newfangled internal combustion machines instead.

The Air Force is looking for a new detector, one that can find what they're looking for in the harshest of conditions. One that'll help them detect Mojave ground squirrels, naturally.