Current Science: Who knew?

GREENSBURG, La. -- No charges were filed against a colony of beavers after the animals were caught in a money-laundering scheme last November. The buck-toothed mammals were fingered after a ski mask-wearing gunman held up the Lucky Dollar Casino and absconded with as much as $75,000. A week after the robbery, a tip-off led detectives to a nearby river, where they found a trash bag stuffed with bills on the shore and a second one floating against a beaver dam. Looking for more missing money, the investigators ransacked the dam and found that the beavers had carefully woven $1,000 in soggy stolen ones, fives, and tens into the stick-and-brush structure. "[The beavers] hadn't torn the bills up," said Michael Martin of the sheriff's office. "They were still whole."

KONYA, Turkey -- When a gas station attendant lost his phone last fall, he suspected that a customer at the station had stolen it. In an effort to persuade the thief to bring back the stolen phone, he dialed its number from another phone. To the man's surprise, his dog's stomach started ringing. The dog had picked up the phone and swallowed it. "I'm just glad my phone wasn't stolen after all," the man said. A day later, after nature had run its course, the phone was returned.