World Must Be Crazy

At a glance, it could easily be a duck, ruffling its feathers as it sits in a nest. But this incredible image actually shows a marrow grown by Marilyn and Lionel Partridge in their vegetable patch. The remarkable vegetable even features an eye, after it scratched against a twig, while the 2in stalk perfectly resembles a beak. Mrs Partridge, 62,

Iowa grower Don Young shattered California's record for heaviest gourd with an Atlantic Giant weighing 1,658 pounds today in the 36th-annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay. The massive pumpkin failed to top the world record for a gourd, which was set at 1,725 pounds earlier this month in October. But it was large enough to break the