Close Encounters With the Swamps' Fiercest Predator
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The second that Jose Fernandez slips into the cypress-lined Everglades pond, a resident alligator slices across the green, glassy water to confront him.
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Floridaâs season of âsturgeon strikesâ â collisions between the leaping fish and hapless boaters is already under way.
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A bizarre marine reptile used a neck nearly twice the length of its body to capture its prey, 230 million years ago. Fish saw only its small head in murky waters and, when they came too close, the animal quickly
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CONCEPCIÃÂN, Argentina -- From a flat patch of tree-studded savannah, the gaze stretches for miles: across a small pond where a marsh deer stops to drink, and over swampy wetlands where herons gingerly high-step.
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Southern right whales are coming under increased attacks from an unlikely predator: seagulls hungry for the mammals' skin and blubber.
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The small frogs that croaked in Diane Butler's backyard pond had been silenced and her goldfish were disappearing. She had the culprit, dead in a plastic bag inside her freezer. Butler's capture &#151; a 4 1/2-inch Cuban tree frog &#151; in coastal Savannah has caused a nervous stir among wildlife biologists in Georgia and Florida.
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Science & environment: A perilous three-way hunt is under way as rival eco-warriors pursue a Japanese fleet
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Travel: Under siege from oil companies and loggers, the Huaorani of Ecuador are fighting back - through ecotourism.
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They were unwieldy pond-dwelling predators with long necks that didn&#39;t have enough joints and neck ribs that must have kept their heads practically immobile.
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This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Chris Austin&rsquo;s fieldwork takes him to some of the most inaccessible places on Earth in the pursuit of knowledge about the diversity of the world&rsquo;s amphibians and reptiles. He serves as assistant curator of Herpetology and assistant professor of Biological Science at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Science. This story relates some of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of field work in remote New Guinea.
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Training her binoculars on a dark patch of floating seaweed, Gena Bentall gasped. After searching for sea otters all day, the research biologist had spotted one: a mother with a pup on her belly, but the otter's face was mauled and dripping blood and a male was hot on her tail.
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A 3 1/2-foot alligator has been captured walking along a Long Island roadway. Chief Roy Gross of the Suffolk County SPCA said the reptile was found by two people who were walking alongside a grassy area of Route 25A in Wading River on Sunday afternoon.
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An alien species of catfish has been caught in the Delaware Raritan Canal, prompting fears among environmental officials that the voracious predator could devastate native catfish, sunfish and some sturgeon populations the way it has in southeastern states.
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SOURGOUROU, Niger -- Perched among the top branches of an acacia tree, Hassan Abdoulaye scanned the horizon for the tallest animal on earth. But spotting members of the last wild giraffe herd in West Africa is never easy. They blend in well.
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By GILLIAN FLACCUS LOS ANGELES - A 6 1/2-foot alligator believed to be the elusive &quot;Reggie&quot; who lurked in a park lake for two years was captured Thursday in a wrestling match with a reptile expert and rangers.
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From the sands of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered the bones of two new ferocious dinosaur predators - one that makes the kills and another that feasts on the leftovers.
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An astonishing collection of fossil animals from southern Australia is reported by scientists.