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Who's Protecting the Turtles From the Sargassum Clean-Up?
3+ hour, 11+ min ago (158+ words) Environmental activists in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, are warning that heavy machinery used to clear sargasso from beaches is destroying marine life and worsening coastal erosion. Belize uses a similar method. Teams dispatch trucks to shorelines to load and haul…...
Cops to call in reptile experts after stray snake wraps itself around patrol car
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (426+ words) REPTILE experts and mechanics help police find a stray snake that slithered into their patrol car. Officers spotted the creature moving across a car park, so they got out and frantically motioned to other drivers to stop in case they…...
Beach litter creates obstacles for nesting sea turtles in Volusia County
5+ hour, 3+ min ago (175+ words) VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — Volusia County’s sea turtle patrol is reminding beachgoers to clean up after themselves after a recent nesting attempt was disrupted by abandoned items left on the shoreline. According to Turtle Patrol Volusia, a sea turtle encountered furniture,…...
In gardens across Britain, one compost heap holds a heat that a whole snake species cannot make on its own
3+ hour, 19+ min ago (710+ words) In the far corner of a British garden, a heap of grass clippings and old peelings sits slowly rotting. Most people would call it garden waste and nothing more. It looks like the least interesting spot on the whole plot....
Florida alligator eats invasive python in the Everglades, and the rare turnabout is on video
4+ hour ago (444+ words) A Burmese python became the prey in a recent Everglades sighting when an alligator was seen eating and carrying off the invasive snake. The scene was recorded by a cyclist, and the video shows that native animals can still sometimes…...
Man bit by rattlesnake in California barely survives after 54 antivenom doses
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (413+ words) OROVILLE, Calif. (KTLA) – An Idaho man visiting family in Northern California narrowly survived two rattlesnake bites, one of which landed deep in a vein and necessitated more than 50 doses of antivenom. The frightening May 26 incident happened in Oroville, a Butte…...
"Without warning and impossible to see with the naked eye, the prey vanishes..." 3 fastest bites in the animal kingdom
5+ hour, 26+ min ago (712+ words) And then there are some animals that have evolved to rely on a blindingly fast bite to beat the reaction speeds of their victims. Essentially, they can catch and immobilise prey before it even knows it is in danger. Some…...
Large SNAKE found dumped at popular Scots walking spot
6+ hour, 26+ min ago (246+ words) A MASSIVE snake was found dumped at a popular Scottish walking spot The giant reptile was discovered abandoned in a car park in the Kilpatrick Hills area of West Dunbartonshire. The Scottish SPCA were called in after it was found…...
In India, a ceiling vent's 'wiring fault' kept one family upstairs until a black cobra emerged
7+ hour ago (490+ words) A 36-hour rescue unfolded in Noida, India, after a family discovered that what appeared to be a problem in a ceiling vent was actually a black cobra moving through the false ceiling, as The Indian Express reported. The publication revealed…...
Snake slithers across Virginia substation, and 6,500 lose power overnight
6+ hour, 34+ min ago (412+ words) Planes certainly aren't the only place that snakes can cause a bit of disruption. To wit, a snake at a power substation caused an overnight outage that cut electricity to thousands of people in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, as WHSV 3 News…...