Actually, cracked.com is often surprisingly really good at finding really obscure research that I could never find from Wikipedia or any other source. They found an amazing article about deer that raided bird nests to get calcium, for example (http://www.cracked.com/article_19126_5-adorable-animals-that-are-turning-to-dark-side.html).

For another article, for example, they really managed to scour many obscure sources from google books.

Plus, it's often the best means of communicating research to other people who don't like reading science articles.