Toad captured on camera while eating snake in China
MELBOURNE - In a rare case of a predator hunted by its prey, a toad has for the first time been captured on camera while eating a whole snake in just five minutes.
Swine flu can travel to the lungs and gut
LONDON - The deadly swine flu virus has the potential to reach deep into the respiratory system, and even as far as the intestines, according to two new studies on ferrets.
2 British police dogs die after being left in car during heat wave
2 British police dogs die in car during heat wave
LONDON — Two British police dogs died after being left in a car during a heat wave, police said Thursday.
2 British police dogs die after being left in hot car during heat wave
2 British police dogs die in hot car
LONDON — Two British police dogs have died after being left in a car during a heat wave.
Chihuahua survives 900kg stomp on head by horse!
MELBOURNE - A chihuahua survived an accidental 900kg stomp on its head, made by its buddy horse weighing about 900kg.
Officials: Escaped 12-foot pet python strangles 2-year-old girl in Fla. home
Officials: Escaped pet python strangles Fla. child
OXFORD, Fla. — A 12-foot pet Burmese python broke out of a terrarium and strangled a 2-year-old girl in her bedroom Wednesday at a central Florida home, authorities said. Shaunnia Hare was already dead when paramedics arrived at about 10 a.m., Lt. Bobby Caruthers of the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said.
Officials: Escaped 12-foot pet python strangled 2-year-old girl in Fla. home
Officials: Escaped pet python strangled Fla. child
OXFORD, Fla. — A pet Burmese python measuring more than 8 feet long broke out of a terrarium and strangled a 2-year-old girl in her bedroom Wednesday at a central Florida home, authorities said. Shaiunna Hare was already dead when paramedics arrived at about 10 a.m., Lt. Bobby Caruthers of the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said.
Scientists say Myanmar fossil shows ancestors of humans, apes evolved from primates in Asia
Myanmar fossil may shed light on evolution
BANGKOK, Thailand — Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday.
World’s mangrove-dependent animals threatened with extinction
WASHINGTON - An assessment indicates that more than 40 percent of a sample of amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds that are restricted to mangrove ecosystems are globally threatened with extinction.
Primates evolved larger brains to hop between trees
WASHINGTON - A new study, in which scientists scanned a 54-million-year-old skull roughly the size of a walnut, has suggested that primates such as lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans might have evolved larger brains as a result of the need to move quickly from tree to tree.
