Toad captured on camera while eating snake in China

mountain-toadMELBOURNE - 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Chihuahua survives 900kg stomp on head by horse!

horse vs chiMELBOURNE - A chihuahua survived an accidental 900kg stomp on its head, made by its buddy horse weighing about 900kg.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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