A horse that rides in a car, eats cheeseburgers, fetches a beer, answers the phone, sleeps in bed.

"'The marking on the shell was like the devil wanted us to to know he was down there.'"

This is incredible. "What are these creatures, that they spin silver lariats for the sheer joy of creation? And what sort of creatures are we, if we cannot appreciate and protect them?"

"The Iranian daily Etemaad says the creature is believed to have grown from larva to an adult frog inside her body."