Scientists have made a weird discovery about elephant seals: when they sleep in the water they simply freefall towards the bottom of the ocean. Meanwhile, an elephant seal dubbed Big Gus has made himself at home in Augusta, Western Oz. Scientists say he’s probably lost – he might have taken a nap and got left behind…

The desert tortoise known as Mojave Max has marked the end of the US winter by poking his head out of his burrow for the first time this year. According to Las Vegas lore, Max is a local marker of the changing seasons (think: a drier version of Punxsutawney Phil of Groundhog Day fame…).

And a moose has wandered into an Alaskan cinema, missing the start of TheSuper Marios Brothers Movie but arriving in time to bury its nose in the garbage bin. An overwhelmed attendant caught the whole encounter on camera. She was not amoosed…