Trees covered from head to toe in spiders' webs, bees that make blue, green and red honey, and a golf course in Australia with sharks in the water hazard.

Elks on the rampage in a quiet American town, a fish that can walk on dry land, and a strange breed of fainting goats.

A play date with a polar bear, a dolphin that thinks it is a sperm whale, and the ducklings with a cat for a mum.

A hailstone the size of a rugby ball that fell from the sky, a wall of ice that engulfed a town, and a frog which can freeze and unfreeze.

An octopus who thinks he's Houdini, a stoat that hypnotises its prey, and a massive lake in America that disappeared.

The Suriname toad, which grows its babies on its back, foxes who like bouncing on trampolines, a two-headed snake who doesn't know which way to turn, and army ants on a march to the death.

A team of dogs riding the rails on the Russian underground, a clever crow that uses a pedestrian crossing to crack a very tough problem, and a monstrous fish that has taken to the land to hunt pigeons.

A strange sound that's bewitched a town in America, mayflies on an intensive speed date, and a bug that loves nothing more than kissing us.

A herd of elephants in a hotel, an ant that indulges in some truly shocking behaviour, and a body-snatching parasitic worm that is a master of mind control.

A moose in Norway that got stuck in a tree, an elephant seal that turned up on a zebra crossing in Rio de Janeiro, and black bears taking a dip in a hot tub in America.

A mysterious web which covered an entire street, a sea in Australia that turned into a foam bath, a playground which disappeared overnight into an 80-metre-wide hole, and freaky-looking multicoloured lobsters.

A plague of mice that invaded a farm in Australia, 150 million monarchs on a migration to Mexico, and a swarm of locusts of biblical proportions.

An alien-like snail with pulsating antennae, a deep-sea slimer that's got fishermen puzzled, and a mysterious ten-metre-long animal called a pyrosome.

A dust storm that turned an entire city red, a remote tropical island invaded by 30 million crabs, and a cloud shaped like a UFO.

A tree that bleeds, a fungus that likes to munch on ant brains, and a flesh-eating fly with a taste for humans.

Sleepy suburbs invaded by ten million bugs, a Californian town under attack from moving plants, and a tropical island overrun by an army of venomous snakes and spiders.

A lemming terrorising a cat, flying fish, and an angry dinosaur-like creature on the warpath.

An unidentified black blob invading the California coast, a real-life sea serpent swimming in the shallows, and a lost underwater world halfway up a mountain.

A solar death ray that's frying birds mid-flight, how the sun changed the course of musical history with a violin worth 15 million dollars, and a shocking new discovery... spider goats.

A superpowered squirrel that can withstand the freezing temperatures of the Arctic winter, a real-life Batman who navigates with sonar, and a remarkable rat saving lives on the battlefields of Africa.

A man that got struck by lightning, an everlasting storm, and a shocking secret lurking in the swamps of South America.

A strange slime invading people's gardens, a plant that pretends to be a dead animal, and the baby wasp that has a giant spider for breakfast.

A rabbit island where fluffy muggings are commonplace, a rat that chases cats, and a lurking monster taking fish from an aquarium in Miami.

A dam-busting, fish-firing super-cannon, the poisonous frog helping to make air travel safer, and a convoy of caterpillars on the lookout for some prime real estate.

Penguins nesting in a garden, pigs swimming in the sea, and a fish that lives inside the bottom of another oceanic dweller, the sea cucumber.

How a porcupine found true love in a zoo, why a sewer may be a good place to prospect for gold, and a wedding in Arizona hit by a gigantic dust storm.

The rocks that like to take a stroll in the desert, a pebble hot enough to burn a hole in your pocket, and an exploding boulder that could really ruin your holiday.

A man who collects worms by grunting, a gang of prairie dogs doing a Mexican wave, and a shoal of farting fish who caused a stink with the Swedish Navy.

Brainless bats, a deer munching on a bird, zombie starfish, and a frozen waterfall of blood.

A strange sea creature that likes to spew out its innards, the mysterious green balls invading an Australian beach, and a peculiar pulsating blob found hiding in the city sewers.

A storm of giant hailstones at a sunny beach, a terrifying tornado made of fire, and the weird winds that help to keep the Amazon rainforest growing.

A volcano with blue lava, a night-time surfer whose board sets off an oceanic light show, strange gifts from feathered friends, and the mystery of fairy rings in Namibia.