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October 20, 2015

Family saves three baby sharks through C-section

Performing an emergency C-section on a shark may not be part of a typical beach outing, but for one family that is exactly what happened. 

October 20, 2015

Deer with 'vampire fangs' spotted for 1st time in decades

An endangered deer with vampirelike fangs was spotted for the first time in nearly 60 years, in a remote forest in northeastern Afghanistan

October 20, 2015

Scientist slammed for killing puppy-sized spider

When scientist Piotr Naskrecki encountered a puppy-sized spider in Guyana, his photos of the giant arachnid quickly became an Internet sensation. While the huge spider generated massive buzz, however, the Harvard researcher has come in for a firestorm of criticism for killing the creature and bringing it back to a museum.

October 20, 2015

Giant, extinct Kangaroos probably didn't hop

The ancestors of modern-day kangaroos, giant marsupials with rabbitlike faces, may have walked upright on two feet, sans any hopping, a new study finds.

October 20, 2015

Jumbo squid attack submarine

It is like a scene from an old wives' tale about the giant, tentacled kraken dragging shipping vessels to their doom — two Humboldt squid, flashing an angry red, attack a Dual Deep Worker submersible containing two Greenpeace USA divers on an expedition in the Bering Sea. In a Vine video shot by one of the divers, the two large cephalopods, also commonly referred to as “jumbo squid” or “red devils,” rush at the submersible while spewing vision-obscuring clouds of ink.

October 20, 2015

Often pesky beavers put to work restoring streams

In a heavily irrigated Washington valley where fish, crops and people often compete for water, biologists are turning to one of nature's best engineers to help restore streams and salmon habitat.

October 20, 2015

Shark attack: Great white attacks fellow shark

When Adam Malski, 33, first set out on a shark-diving expedition near the Neptune Islands, 50 miles at sea off the South Australian coast, he did not expect to witness an epic shark-on-shark duel. While riding on the back of the boat, he captured footage of a large great white shark attacking a significantly smaller white shark.

October 20, 2015

Invasion of voracious bullfrogs spreads in Montana

An invasion of American bullfrogs that will eat just about anything — including each other — is spreading downstream along Montana's Yellowstone River and poses a potential threat...

October 20, 2015

Did 'deadly' spider eggs really hitch a ride on imported bananas?

It's enough to make you do a double take the next time you unpack your groceries! A recent British news report claimed that imported bananas could play host to a certain species of venomous spiders

October 20, 2015

6th mass extinction? Humans kill species faster than they're created

Humans are killing off species thousands of times faster than nature creates them, new research finds