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Posts tagged ‘the fringe’

Is This Nessie’s Cousin?

Mystery solved? Maybe. A scientist in Alaska suspects that the “monster” who inhabits Alaska’s Lake Iliamna may be a sleeper shark – one of the largest…

Candid GorillaCam

The camera had been placed along the path by members of the Wildlife Conservation Society, which is looking to save this highly endangered species (250 of them remaining) from extinction.

Parakeet Tells Police His Address

First he told the police the names of the city and the district where he lived. And then, when that information was not good enough to get him home, he gave them the precise street and house number.

“Mom, There’s a Fox in My Bed!”

Alexander West was stunned to see the baby fox snuggled in his duvet in his bedroom on the second floor of his home in Hemel Hempstead, Herts. The youngster had left the back door of the townhouse open when he ran outside to play and the female fox had crept inside and made herself at home.

Octopus with His Mobile Home!

Octopuses are well known for their smarts. They’re the most intelligent of the cephalopods, and are renowned for their Houdini-like ability to escape from humans. (One story is told of the octopus who escaped from a tank in the hull of a boat where he was being held captive … made his way up the stairs … and over the edge of the boat back into the ocean.)

The Missing Lynx

It’s difficult enough finding Fluffy when she’s hiding in plain sight. Try finding a Canadian lynx in the wilds of a national park. But Canadian wildlife scientists are thrilled with this photo of a lynx as she crossed a wildlife overpass in Banff National Park. It was captured on an automatic motion-sensitive camera.

The Elephant on Mars

A sanctuary on Mars for elephants spirited out of zoos by Bob Barker? No, just the latest “face” seen in hi-res photos from Mars. This one…

Reunited … 16 Years Later!

Poldi the cat went for a walk from his family home in 1996. He reappeared … this week. For months after he disappeared, Poldi’s family searched their Munich, Germany, neighborhood for him. They finally gave up, thinking they would never see him again.

T-Rex Cousin Had Feathers

She weighed a ton and a half, was at least 30 feet long, lived about 125 million years ago, and was an early cousin of the Tyrannosaurus family. But the really big thing about her is that she had soft, fuzzy feathers.