This list was an April Fools Day joke for April 1, 2008. Items 10 and 9 are real, the rest are entirely made up.

Genetic modification of plants and animals has caused a lot of debate in recent years as the technology becomes much more accessible to scientists. Despite the potential dangers of some modifications, science has continued to test and produce some striking new organisms. This is a list of the top 10 most bizarre.

The GloFish was the first genetically modified animal to become available as a pet. It is a natural Zebrafish which has had genetic information from bioluminescent jellyfish added to its DNA. It was originally produced to provide a warning system for pollution but with the addition of further colors its viability for the pet market became clear. It was introduced to the US market in December 2003 by Yorktown Technologies of Austin, Texas.

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[WARNING: This list contains images and concepts that will offend] We are currently in the season of Lent which is traditionally a time of penitence and contemplation of the end of life. This season of 40 days is marked by many death related festivals around the world. It seemed fitting that we should get in to the spirit of things (so to speak) and do a death related list. Some of the images in this list may offend readers.

10. Body Bags $20

These are authentic Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office body bags. If you don’t have a body to put in the bag, these are still useful for storage of old clothes or anything really. Don’t get caught out without a body bag! Buy one today!

Buy a body bag

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Our first article on coincidences has been constantly in the top 10 most popular lists, so it seemed fitting to do a followup. Here are another 10 amazing coincidences!

10. Emergency Landing

In 1979, Das Besteran, a German Magazine, held a writing competition. Readers had to send in unusual stories based on real life occurrences. Walter Kellner from Munich won with his story about flying a Cessna 41 between Sardinia and Sicily. In his story he had engine trouble, landed in the water, and was later rescued. An Austrian man, also named Waltner Kellner, wrote to the paper and told them that the winner of the prize had plagiarized the story because virtually the same thing had happened to him. The magazine checked out both stories and found that they were both true, despite being nearly identical.

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Following the great popularity of our earlier lists on unsolved mysteries, we are presenting you with a third. These are all mysteries that have continued to evade a conclusive explanation. If you think you know the answer, be sure to tell us in the comments! If you wish to see the previous two lists (which you should do before you complain about a mystery not being included on this list), they are:

Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries
Another 10 Unsolved Mysteries

10. The Vile Vortices

The Vile Vortices twelve are areas distributed more or less evenly around the globe that are alleged to have the same qualities as claimed for the Bermuda Triangle. Five are located on a latitude near the Tropic of Capricorn; Five on a latitude near the Tropic of Cancer; and one each at either of the Poles. They form the vertices of an icosahedron. As well as the Bermuda triangle, the Devil’s Triangle (or Devil’s Sea) is one of the twelve areas. The Devil’s Triangle is claimed to be the cause of the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, noted American aviation pioneer, author and women’s rights advocate who disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937. In the image above the vortices are marked out in a different color.

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[WARNING: This list contains content that may offend some readers] Museums are meant to have wide appeal as institutions of learning, but sometimes things go awry - as is the case in the following ten bizarre museums. Take a journey to the dark side of museum life with our top 10 bizarre museums!

10. Museum of Jurassic Technology

The museum claims to have a “specialized repository of relics and artifacts from the Lower Jurassic, with an emphasis on those that demonstrate unusual or curious technological qualities.” This explains the museum’s name and also suggests its puzzling nature, since the Lower Jurassic ended over 150 million years before the appearance of hominoids and in particular before anything that could be called technology. Some of the exhibits found in the museum are a collection of decomposing antique dice owned by magician Ricky Jay, a collection devoted to trailer park culture, entitled “Garden of Eden On Wheels”, an exhibit on household myths of years past, and a collection of micro-miniature sculptures and paintings, such as a sculpture of Pope John Paul II carved from a single human hair and placed within the eye of a needle.

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