A stork impaled by a 30-inch spear flew thousands of miles to make it home. Plus other fun facts from The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week. By Popular Science Team.

A white stork, Ciconia Ciconia to give it its ornithological name, was found outside the village of Klütz on the Baltic coast of what is now Germany. And no ordinary stork was it. Running through it ...

On May 21, 1822, a hunter on the Bothmer Estate near Mecklenburg, Germany, shot and killed a white stork, only to find that the bird already had a 30-inch wooden spear lodged in its neck.

The spear was found to be made of African wood, confirming that the stork had managed to fly 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) to Africa for the winter before making the immense return journey to ...

The spear, metal-tipped, rising up through the bird’s breast and out through the side of its neck, was identified as coming from central Africa. The arrow stork, Pfeilstorch, was the proof we had been ...

Thirteen years ago, a stork landed on a fisherman’s boat looking for food. He has come back every year since, drawing national attention. Adem Yilmaz in his fishing boat with his stork companion ...

The Germans, as is their wont, christened the stork Pfeilstorch or arrow-stork. Astonishingly, a further twenty-four such birds were found over time, bearing incontrovertible proof that birds do ...