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• Gator-guzzling python comes to messy end
A 13-foot Burmese python recently burst after it apparently tried to swallow a live, six-foot alligator whole, authorities said. The incident has heightened biologists’ fears that the nonnative snakes could threaten a host of other animal species in ...
• Mmm, rodents! China feasts on rat infestation
A lack of snakes, also a popular dish in the south, and owls, a traditional Chinese medicine, was held partly responsible. Scientists have also blamed China's massive Three Gorges Dam project and climate change for the Hunan rodents' flight to dry land
• Scientists find why bad memories stay with us
... mice are faced with impending danger. Another found that the brain can learn to fear something, such as a bee's sting, when we view someone else's fear. Another recent study detailed how primates and other mammals learned to fear and avoid snakes. ...
• Bolivar's lone road home
Officials said the area is not safe to live in because of a lack of water and utilities as well as dangers from snakes and alligators. The peninsula just northeast of Galveston was among the hardest-hit areas when Ike blasted ashore Sept. 13 with 110 ...
• Town just about KO'd by Rita, Ike
Between the snakes and mosquitoes, we got mountain lions and bobcats that tall," he said, holding a chain saw in one hand and gesturing waist-high with the other. "Alligators come through my yard. We're survivors here. That's what we do." He's not ...