A pumpkin carved to look like Mike, a monster from the Disney-Pixar film 'Monsters Inc.' sits on display at Disneyland's Big Thunder Ranch on Oct. 12, where professional pumpkin carvers are creating original art daily through Nov. 20.
Christy Harp shows off her world-record 1,725-pound Atlantic giant pumpkin in Jackson Township, Ohio. Harp took first place at the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers annual weigh-off Saturday in Canfield. She won $2,500 and could claim the world title. Contest organizers say the entry topped the 1,689-pound record-holder grown in 2007 by Joe Jutras of North Scituate, R.I.
A Cleveland Browns fan with a pumpkin-head cheers during the Browns game against the Cincinnati Bengals in Cleveland Ohio on Oct. 4.
Buzz Pinkham shouts during the motorized competition at the fourth annual Damariscotta Pumpkinfest Regatta, on Oct. 11 in Damariscotta, Maine. Pinkham and a friend came up with the idea for a race while looking for something to do with a 700-pound pumpkin they had shown at a county fair. They hollowed it out, attached a motor, and launched what has become a wacky race that now attracts more than a thousand people to town.
A gorilla eats treats from a pumpkin carved to resemble a bat, on Oct. 8 at the Cincinnati Zoo.
A python is seen with a pumpkin at the Bronx Zoo in New York on September 23.
Reuben Frias poses with his giant 1,467.5 pound pumpkin on Oct. 3 at the CSD Giant pumpkin Festival in Elk Grove, Calif. Frias took home a first-place prize of $8,805, or $6 a pound. The pumpkin was so big that the transmission on Reuben's truck was wrecked during the 2-hour drive from Napa to Elk Grove, and he had to be towed in with his entry. 'I'm going to use the money to buy a truck,' he said.
This Sept. 29 photo released by SeaWorld San Diego shows Charly, a 1,150-pound polar bear, with a jack-o'-lantern at SeaWorld San Diego's Wild Arctic attraction. The 11 -foot bear shredded the pumpkin in seconds.
Farmer Don Young from Des Moines, Iowa stands next to his winning pumpkin at the Half Moon Bay 36th Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, Calif. on Oct. 12. Young's pumpkin weighed in at 1,658 pounds, setting a weight record for California.
A 650-pound pumpkin dropped from a height of about 200 feet falls on a police cruiser during the Damariscotta Pumpkinfest, on Oct. 12 in Damariscotta, Maine.
Damariscotta Pumpkinfest in Damariscotta, Maine.
Damariscotta Pumpkinfest in Damariscotta, Maine.
Damariscotta Pumpkinfest in Damariscotta, Maine.
Workers measure pumpkins during the 2009 Barnesville Pumpkin Festival in Ohio on September 23.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed hundreds of thousands of his cheering supporters in Istanbul saying, 'My patience has run out' with anti-government protests.
Turkey’s largest city was divided on Sunday by competing shows of force, between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who staged a mammoth rally of loyalists, and anti-government demonstrators, who clashed with police on Istanbul's streets once again to protest his rule.
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