He Pingping from Inner Mongolia, China's autonomous region, the world's smallest man sits underneath Svetlana Pankratova from Russia, the Queen of Longest Legs, as they pose at Trafalgar Square in London, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. Pingping, born with primordial dwarfism, holds the Guiness World Record for the smallest man at 74.61 cms (2 feet and 5.37 inches) and Pankratova holds the Guiness World Record for the longest leg of any woman at 132 cms (4 feet 4 inches) in length.


The Mineret Mountains, where a hiker found the plane wreckage of of adventurer Steve Fossett, is seen near Mammoth Lakes, Calif., Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. The National Transportation Safety Board recovered the wreckage of Fossett's plane, which was discovered by a hiker, Monday, and will assemble it later to try to find the cause of the crash.



Fifteen year old Hippo Albert opens his mouth to catch a pumpkin, fed to him by his keeper, in Cologne Zoo, western Germany, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. At right is six years old Hippo Kavango.


An Atlantic wolffish,is seen at a Portland, Maine, fish store, on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. The Conservation Law Foundation asked the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Tuesday to list the Atlantic wolffish as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.



One of five oriental small-clawed otter pubs, born a few days ago to six-year old mother Nora, is held by a keeper, during their first veterinary examination in the Veszprem Zoo, in Veszprem, 108 kilometers southwest of Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008.



A model presents a creation for Junko Shimada's spring-summer 2009 ready-to-wear collection in Paris, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008.



French designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, left, walks onto the runway after his spring-summer 2009 ready-to-wear collection presented in Paris, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008.



A home is seen Sept. 17, 2008, in Saginaw, Mich. With a winning bid of just $1.75, a Chicago woman has won an auction for the abandoned home in Saginaw. Joanne Smith, 30, recently was the top bidder for the home during an auction on eBay, The Saginaw News reported, in September 2008. Her bid was one of eight for the home. She must pay about $850 in back taxes and yard cleanup costs.


A tranquilized mountain lion lies in a transportation wagon at Casper's Wyoming Game and Fish Department office after being captured in the backyard of a home near downtown Casper, Wy. on Monday, Sept. 29, 2008.


A National Park ranger walks through debris at the Padre Island National Seashore at South Padre Island, Texas, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. Debris from Hurricane Ike that was washed from the Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston litters more than 60 miles of the national seashore.



In this May 29, 2008 file photo released by the Lincoln Park Zoo, a male trumpeter swan at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago takes his newly hatched offspring into the swan pond for a swim.



Space shuttle Atlantis on pad 39A, left, and space shuttle Endeavour on pad 39B stand ready at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008. Atlantis is targeted for an Oct. 10 launch on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Endeavour will be on standby in the unlikely event that a rescue mission for the Atlantis's crew would be necessary. After Endeavour is cleared from its duty as a rescue vehicle, workers will move it to pad 39A in preparation for a mission to the International Space Station on Nov. 12