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Weird News

Scientists have identified the world's first known omnivorous shark species.

Despite the animal's bloodthirsty image it appears some are happy to eat vegetation as well as meat.

Researchers at the University of California and the Florida International University have claimed the relative of the hammerhead is the first to be revealed as an omnivore.

Found in the swallow waters of the eastern Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico and Western Atlantic, the bonnethead shark also feels on crab, snails, shrimp and bony fish.

However, researchers have investigated its dietary habits after reports it had been seen eating on seagrass.

An obese hedgehog has been put on a diet because he's too fat to curl into a ball.

Jabba weighs in at nearly three times the weight of the average hedgehog after being over fed by his previous owner and has now been put on a strict regime of liquefied dog food.

The animal was discovered to be overweight at the Oak and Furrows wildlife rescue centre, near Swindon, England.

Originally Jabba was dubbed as 'Hogzilla' and 'Mr Piggywinkle' but the rescue centre decided the names were too unflattering and settled on his new name, inspired by Jabba the Hutt from the Star Wars franchise.

It is hoped he will lose over a kilogramme to hit his target weight of 650 grams.

A student bit her nails so much, she had to have her thumb amputated.

Courtney Whithorn, now 20, developed the habit when she was bullied at school and in 2014, she bit off her entire thumb nail, with the digit then turning black.

The embarrassed then-teenager kept it hidden for four years by wearing false nails and keeping her hand in a fist, but it later transpired she had caused such major trauma to her nail bed, it developed into a rare cancer called acral lentiginous subungual melanoma.

Courtney, who lives in Australia but is originally from North East England, said: "When I found out that biting my nail off was the cause of the cancer it shattered me. In my head I thought "I've done this to myself" but obviously I knew I shouldn't have that mentality. I couldn't believe it." Following her diagnosis in July, Courtney has had four surgeries and the final one saw her thumb completely removed.

An unnamed woman posted a creepy story about voices she heard over her baby monitor on The Huffington Post.

She wrote: "My niece would often talk and wave randomly to nothing, nobody thought it was odd until one day she was having a nap and we heard singing over the monitor, we thought it was probably picking up a radio signal but we went to check on her, as we got closer the lullaby got louder and it gave us the creeps. The sound stopped as soon as we opened the door, the video was

interrupted once we walked in and went out of focus."