Sign up for the Guardian Today US newsletter Scientists first identified the small gelatinous blob as a new species in the high seas, using only high-definition underwater cameras. The animal, officially known as Duobrachium sparkusi, Stenophore or comb is a new species of jelly. It was discovered in April 2015 …
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A pack of wild hyenas dragged a sleeping old man from his bed and killed him in Africa. The victim, 87-year-old Tendai Maseka, was attacked while sleeping in a hut in the rural area of Chirumanzu in central Zimbabwe. According to the report, the animals dragged Maseka about 1000 feet …
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SURTIUS, NY (AP) – A little owl, dehydrated and hungry in the branches of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, is returning to good health and preparing to leave on a wild Saturday. The adult male so-wet owl was called Rockefeller, when a giant holiday tree was set up in Manhattan …
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NEW YORK (AP) – It wasn’t quite the bottom of a pear tree, but a worker who helped organize the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree saw the holiday surprise – a tiny owl among the huge branches. Ellen Kalish, director and founder of the Ravensbird Wildlife Center in New York, said …
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LONDON (AP) – Tristan da Cunha, an island with 245 permanent residents, is being built to protect endangered rockhopper penguins, yellow-nosed albatrosses and other wildlife in the South Atlantic, three times the size of the United Kingdom. . The British Foreign Office, which calls itself the most remote island on …
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