All creatures great and small amaze us. But these record-breaking animals of the recently released Guinness Book of World Records 2012 Edition are truly astounding. See how your pet measures up to the dog with the longest tongue or the world's shortest cat. You never know — he might earn a spot in the 2013 edition!
Lucy the Yorkshire Terrier, who measures only 5.7 inches tall and weighs 2.5 pounds, may be tiny, but she's got a big reputation. The three-year-old dog was recently named the world's smallest service dog by the Guinness Book of World Records.
To celebrate its 500th episode, 'The Simpsons' is hoping one of its biggest fans will set another record -- and one that Homer Simpson, TV's most notorious couch potato, would really appreciate.
Starting on February 8th, Simpson fanatics are being challenged to continuously watch all 500 episodes of TV's longest-running primetime, scripted show.
Thanks to the website RecordSetter, which allows folks to invent a world record in anything, many a wacky record was set and/or broken in 2011.
Some of our favorite RecordSetter marks this year include the record for two girls slapping each other with pizza, the record for most time spent simultaneously juggling, eating and balancing on “rola bola" and the man who set a world record for most quarters shoved up his nose.
At just under 25 inches tall, some toddlers can reach shelves she can't. But 18-year-old Indian student Jyoti Amge has a claim to fame they don't: she's just been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s shortest living woman.
First Lady Michelle Obama is a world record holder, and she didn't even have to anything weird like stuff a bunch of quarters up her nose or run around in her underwear, which is what less presidentially-connected folks have been doing recently to set world records.
Instead, she set her mark in a recent event in which 300,000 kids in locations around the world joined her in doing jumping jacks, shattering the previous record of 20,000 people doing jumping jacks in a 24 hour period. Now, the Guinness Book of Records has confirmed that Michelle is a world record holder.
The US is the junk-food capital of the world, but when it comes to tasting the most fast-food in a short period of time, it turns out that Spain has us beat.
This stunt originally was introduced on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' when Fallon set the bar at 13 food items tasted. But on this Spanish program, Florentino Fernandez bests Fallon by three items, setting a new record with 16 fast foods tasted in 30 seconds.
David Hale entertained Burning Man festival attendees by performing 21 backflips in a row while wearing stilts, setting a world record. Any attempts to break his mark should probably be done on an empty stomach.
Paul Green Jr. shoves an astounding 18 quarters up his nose, setting a new world record, according to RecordSetter.com. Well, if you need to be famous for something, it might as well be this.
Ortrud from Germany has the world's largest collection of clown-related items totaling 2,053, a hobby that's made her a Guinness title holder and perhaps one of he creepiest people ever.