Did Pandas Know The Earthquake Was Coming?

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It’s been well-documented that animals are better than we are at picking up little changes in the surrounding world. Watch your dog lose his marbles 30 minutes before a thunderstorm arrives and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. It only makes sense then, that the pandas at Wolong National Nature Reserve near Chengdu, China, realized that an earthquake was coming long before the ground started shaking up to half an hour before, according to a British tourist who noticed a marked difference in behavior.

Houston We Have a Problem: Crazy Ants Have Invaded!

Photographically enlarged crazy ants. Image from Joe Lencioni

Millions of crazy rasberry (yes, that’s what they’re called, no, it’s not a misspelling) ants are swarming over Houston, annoying residents and choking electronics that aren’t prepared to ward off tiny invaders. The ants, named after the exterminator Tom Rasberry, who in Texas waged the first (unsuccessful) fight against them in 2000, are about the size of a flea and have currently spread to five counties in the area.

Surviving a Shark Attack: Poke its Eyes Out and its Jaws Will Loosen.

Great White Attacks its prey. Image by 126 club

Jason Cull, 37, is a lucky swimmer that managed to escape a ferocious shark attack. A 16 foot Great White, attacked him while swimming at the Middleton Beach on Australia’s southwestern coast on Sunday.

Just How Smart is a Chimp?

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Actually, chimps are smarter than both you or I. I understand that this is a little shocking–the evolutionary equivalent of your younger brother bringing home Adriana Lima for Christmas–so I’ll let you compose yourself, and explain just how the chimp got so smart below the jump.

Just How Cannibalistic Are Locusts?

Locust swarm. Image by Charles Haynes

As if out of nowhere 10 billion insects blacken the skies and carpet the ground, obliterating everything in their path. Economic ruin and starvation on a massive scale - these are just some of the effects of one of the most incredible phenomena in nature: the locust swarm.

Screwed: World’s Most Evil Worm Invades Yemen

Screw Worm Larvae. Image by the US department of agriculture.

Up until now the list of worms that has made men curse with fear has pretty much been limited to tape worms.

Is It a Mammal? Is it a Bird? Is it a Reptile? No It’s All Three

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Congratulations, everybody, we’re all one evolutionary step closer to the snakes and reptiles than we were yesterday. Scientists, in sequencing the genome of the duck-billed platypus, which has traditionally been classified a mammal, found enough reptilian characteristics to characterize it as an important discovery in understanding how mammalian processes evolved from reptiles. If you’ve set your snark phasers to “kill,” that means this research explains why we don’t lay eggs.

Sex in the Moonlight, How Do Lemurs Tell Each Other Apart?

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Lemurs, the small, fuzzy primates that inhabit the forests of Madagascar, have a love life that even the most daring of swingers might be surprised by.

First Time In World History, Killer Whales Filmed Hunting Dolphins

Image from The Herald. Let’s see how long until we get a cease-and-desist.

A tour operator in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, unwittingly stumbled into the history books this weekend when he, his boat captain, and four tourists were in the right place at the right time to make the first recording ever of Orca whales hunting dolphins.

5 Extremely Expensive Exotic Pets

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It is, in case you haven’t noticed and if you don’t live in Kentucky, you likely haven’t, it’s Derby Week, which is kind of a big deal to horse racing people. Horse racers represent an odd little subculture: the horses race for three or four years at best, and then the very best of them command up to half a million dollars every time they “do the deed.”

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