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Fear of Humans Is Forcing Daytime Animals Into Night Mode
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6 years ago
The stress is pushing some animals to adjust their schedules—but not all will be quick enough to adapt You’d expect to see a raccoon snuffling around at midnight. A sun bear, not so much....
Crocodile snacks on internet-famous terrier after years of torment (Warning: Graphic)
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6 years ago
Luck finally ran out for a tiny dog in Australia known for terrorizing saltwater crocodiles. Pippa, a 10-year-old terrier was perhaps known for a series of viral videos showing the...
Oldest Lizard Fossil Shows These Reptiles Are The Ultimate Survivors
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6 years ago
The 250-million-year-old specimen from the Alps suggests that lizards evolved before Earth’s largest mass extinction—and thrived after it Around 252 million years ago, an event dubbed the...
How birds may have escaped the dino-killing asteroid impact
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6 years ago
Nothing against trees. But maybe it’s better not to get too dependent on them if you want to survive a big flaming space object crashing into Earth. RUN, BIRD, RUN Birds most likely to...
Companies Want to Begin Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for Oil by Winter
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6 years ago
What these companies want to ruin. Photo: AP The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is no longer safe. Two Alaska Native corporations and an oil services form have jointly...
Photographer Shoots Epic Battle Between Fox And Eagle Over Rabbit, And It Gets More And More Epic With Each Photo
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6 years ago
How would you feel if you were on your way home proudly clutching your hard-earned food, when all of a sudden somebody jumps you, snatches away your sandwich and does a runner? You’d be furious...
Do Mama Stick Insects Get Eaten to Transport Their Eggs?
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6 years ago
This may explain why the insects, who can’t travel far on their own, spread across unconnected lands This insect can survive being eaten by birds, researchers have found. Wikimedia...
Woman mauled to death by seven 'very short-legged dogs' in attack near Oklahoma home
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6 years ago
Oklahoma woman killed by small, short dogs near her home By Kaitlyn Alanis kalanis@wichitaeagle.com 7-9 minutes Seven small dogs — all with legs shorter than an adult's...
The Story of a Throwaway Dog, Lost and Alone - The Final Chapter, The Rainbow Bridge
By: kavika
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6 years ago
Hi, my name is now Annie. I'm a mixed breed (a mutt) and weigh 35 pounds. At least that is what I weighed when I was thrown away by the people that I lived with for about eight years. Let me tell...
The Story of A Throw Away Dog - Lost and Alone (The Rainbow Bridge)
By: kavika
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6 years ago
Hi, my name is now Annie. I'm a mixed breed (a mutt) and weigh 35 pounds. At least that is what I weighed when I was thrown away by the people that I lived with for about eight years. Let me tell...
Veterinarian accused of trafficking heroin inside puppies to stand trial in US
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6 years ago
A Venezuelan veterinarian – busted overseas for allegedly trafficking heroin inside of puppies – has been extradited to New York, according to law enforcement sources. Accused drug runner...
Footprints prove humans hunted giant sloths during the Ice Age
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6 years ago
PREDATOR OR PREY? Giant ground sloths like Megatherium, illustrated here, were elephant-sized herbivores that, with sharp claws and thick muscle, would have been difficult for...
These hummingbirds aim their singing tail feathers to wow mates
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6 years ago
There’s more subtlety than humans have realized in dropping out of the sky so fast your tail feathers sing. Male Costa’s hummingbirds in western North America are masters of the...
Cuteness alert! Where to find some of the newest zoo babies, from Scotland to Santa Barbara
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6 years ago
Asian small-clawed otter pups were born in January at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Columbus, Ohio. Grahm S. Jones / Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Zoo babies rock the cuteness scale. Zoos...
These Hawaiian Stick Spiders Have a Profound Case of Evolutionary Déjà Vu
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6 years ago
Environments make species. This was the fundamental biology lesson that was drilled into Charles Darwin when he visited the Galápagos Islands back in 1835, a trip that ultimately inspired his...
Foxes and Coyotes are Natural Enemies. ... Or Are They?
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6 years ago
A pair of burly coyotes is one of the last things you expect to see in the concrete jungle, especially in the largest city in America. But that’s exactly what I saw one evening at the edge of...
10 ways my robot vacuum cleaner is a way better version of my cat
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6 years ago
In at least ten ways, having a robot vacuum cleaner is like having a more useful cat. Ever since I got sent the DEEBOT N79S, a cheap robot vacuum cleaner made by Chinese manufacturer Ecovacs,...
Trump Administration, Which Said It Would Keep African Elephant Trophy Ban, Changes Its Mind
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6 years ago
After months of back and forth on the subject, President Donald Trump’s administration has done what everyone pretty much knew it would do the whole time and has lifted a ban on the importation...
Sudan is a gentle giant, and the last living male of his kind in the world.
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6 years ago
Sadly, the 45-year-old Northern white rhinoceros, who lives at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, is gravely ill and not expected to recover from his ailing condition, reports the BBC . The...
Mutant crayfish got rid of males, and its clones are taking over the world
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6 years ago
From a stream in Florida to a pet shop in Germany and on to Japan and Madagascar. It's possible to infer many species' origins from things like fossils and DNA sequences. But for one...
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