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A MYSTERIOUS sea beast has stunned experts after it was discovered on the shore in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. The freakish creature was spotted decaying on a US beach in Texas City, Texas, once the superstorm had cleared. The monster – similar to something from horror movie It – can be seen in photos with its fangs and tail trailing across the sand. Preeti Desai, from the National Audubon Society, found the monster lying on the empty beach. FREAK OF NATURE: The sea beast washed up on the Texas shore following Hurricane Harvey ====================================================================== She said: “We were on...

A wildlife photographer and an animal rights group have reached a settlement in perhaps the weirdest lawsuit of the century. David Slater and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have been at loggerheads for years over who owns the rights to the famous "monkey selfie" taken by a curious macaque in 2011.

Thirty-seven years after the U.S. Air Force shut down a mountain-top radar station in the hills south of San Jose that scanned the skies for Soviet bombers during the Cold War, the summit of Mount Umunhum is finally opening to the public this week as a new park, with stunning views of San Francisco Bay, Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay. The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, a public agency that owns the 3,486-foot peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains east of Los Gatos, spent $25 million over eight years on the project. Supporters say the new summit, which visitors will...

Nearly 10 years after shutting down operations at Hawaii’s Molokai Ranch, the property’s Singapore-based owner has put the 55,575 acres, or 35 percent of the island of Molokai, on the market for sale with an asking price of $260 million. The ranch, which is listed with Kailua-based Carvill Sotheby’s International Realty, has 20 miles of coastline and includes two hotel properties, former Molokai Lodge and the former Kaluakoi hotel, two golf courses, residential, agricultural and conservation land, as well as nearly 30 acres of commercial land near Kaunakakai and 85 acres of industrial land at Maunaloa and Kualapuu. The Kaluakoi...

Jaguar Land Rover will make all its new vehicles available in electric or hybrid models from 2020, it said on Thursday, two months after a similar announcement from Volvo. The JLR group is the latest carmaker to embrace the move away from internal combustion engines in the wake of stricter government proposals after the Paris climate accord. "We will introduce a portfolio of electrified products across our model range, embracing fully electric, plug-in hybrid and mild hybrid vehicles," JLR chief executive Ralf Speth said. Sweden's Volvo is also moving away from internal combustion engines, announcing in July that it plans...

To track down timber thieves, researchers are turning to new tech and tried-and-true criminal justice techniquesNorthern California’s redwoods tower majestically above the forest floor, protected and cherished by all. All, that is, except tree poachers, who lurk in the shadows waiting to hack into some of the world's oldest organisms and extract valuable chunks of knotted burl. Theirs is an unlikely prize: a heavy, knotted chunk of rust-red wood, nestled near the base of older trees and reminiscent of a large hornet's nest. In the right hands, these chunks of ancient wood can prove infinitely valuable. Burls grow like large,...

Do pack animals just follow their leader? Or if not, how do they reach a consensus? According to observations taken of African wild dogs in Botswana, one option is sneezing. According to new research, if enough animals in the pack sternutate, that constitutes a quorum that it's time to get up and go hunting. The research was initiated by Neil Jordan of the UNSW Centre for Ecosystem Science, who was studying the dogs' social rallies. This is when the dogs, when they have finished resting, conduct energetic greeting ceremonies before running off to hunt. Jordan started to notice that, prior...

LAKE MEAD (FOX5) - A section of Interstate 11 opened Wednesday between the 95 and Railroad Pass Casino. But some drivers said they are having a hard time navigating it, thanks to a glitch from GPS technology. When a 2.5 mile stretch of I-11 opened, Apple and Google maps didn't register it. Instead, it caused a major glitch, and instead of routing people down the 95 toward Boulder City and Arizona, drivers were being redirected all the way through Lake Mead National Park. The route takes more time and also comes with a $20 toll. "I pulled over with all...

The United States has been invaded, not by a foreign army or extraterrestrials, but by two species of freshwater mollusks commonly called quagga and the lesser-known zebra mussels. Invasive species are of great concern to fishery biologists and to local officials, the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office and to PG&E, owners of Lake Almanor, as well as Bucks Lake near Quincy and nearby Butt Lake near Humbug Valley. State and federal agencies have joined forces to avert further infestations of quagga mussels and are urging boaters to help stop the spread of the non-native mollusks in California. According to information from...

Police are warning residents of a Chicago suburb to avoid helping "zombie dogs" because they are Police are warning residents of a Chicago suburb to avoid helping "zombie dogs" because they are infected coyotes that could sicken other pets with the disease.  Hanover Park Police Department posted the warning on its Facebook page on Wednesday, saying the coyotes, usually nocturnal animals, are infected with sarcoptic mange that causes them to be active in the day. “Infected animals will often appear ‘mangy’ -- which looks just like it sounds. They suffer hair loss and develop secondary infections, eventually looking like some...

Let me make clear something that professor Wax's "Anglo-Protestant" comment implies: America's "bourgeois values" are superior because they are, essentially, Christian values. Thus, a bourgeois culture is superior because it is essentially a Christian culture, and that ultimately is why the left attacked Wax's and Alexander's piece. As The Miracle and Magnificence of America – and any other sound account of U.S. history – reveals, America was founded by Christians and upon Christian values and principles. The death, disease, and moral rot so prevalent in much of America today is there because many of us have abandoned these values and...

Good movie. Some good shooting, pretty accurate. Jeremy Renner is great, if you are a fan

Video shows hideously ugly organism jiggling and pulsating as it's dragged from the water. A DISGUSTING blob creature that looks like a BRAIN has been discovered in a lake called The Lost Lagoon. The horrible beastie is a nasty brown colour and is said to feel squishy but firm to the touch, a bit like jelly. This horrible thing is made up of millions of tiny organisms ===================================================================== Celina Starnes, an ecologist from the Stanley Park Ecology Society, dragged the blob from its watery home This image gives a sense of the size of the horrible creature ====================================================================== Celina Starnes...

<p>The sky is cloudless, the waters calm and the giant pizza raft inflated. All is idyll on this Greenland iceberg if not for Ethan Pringle, stripped down to his skivvies with a “slice of pie” in-hand. Pringle partially scales the iceberg, emits a whoop at the top and hurls himself hundreds of feet down the hulking chunk of ice. Frigid water, 20 feet below the cliff’s edge, breaks his fall.</p>

A football-mad lottery millionaire has splashed out on his own pitch complete with a dugout on the touchline. Former postman Matt Evans 37, turned his back garden into a mini soccer stadium so his mates can come for a kickabout. The super-rich bachelor is blowing his fortune on his love for the beautiful game. He said: “I’m living the dream by having my own pitch with lifesize goals and all the white markings. “I invite my old workmates around for a game and we sit in the dugout to talk about football. “My dad sometimes comes along for a game...

Survivor: Heroes v. Healers v. Hustlers is the thirty-fifth season of Survivor (for those unfamiliar with the show, there are two seasons each year). It begins Wednesday, September 27, 2017 on CBS at 8/7c. References: Official Survivor site at CBSWikipedia article Survivor: Heroes v. Healers v. Hustlers: Jeff Probst gives intel on NEXT seasonSeason preview As with the last two seasons, this season will be held in the Mamanuca Islands, Fiji. It will consist of 18 new players divided into three tribes based on dominant perceived trait: "Heroes" (those who possess courage), "Healers" (those who help others) and "Hustlers" (those...

But anyone wanting to spark up a joint at the party should think twice - even though Nevada has legalised recreational marijuana. "The broader public including those that go to Burning Man seem to think that at Burning Man, anything goes," said Rebecca Gasca, CEO of the Reno-based cannabis consulting firm Pistil and Stigma. Voters in the state passed a marijuana legalisation measure in 2016, and sales began at retail stores on July 1. But consumption is allowed only in private and even possession remains illegal on federal lands, including the stretch of Black Rock Desert managed by the US...

Tens of thousands have braved massive traffic jams to get to a remote stretch of Nevada desert for the annual Burning Man festival. The highly-anticipated art and music festival runs over nine days from Sunday until September 4 in Black Rock Desert, which is about 120 miles north of Reno. Black Rock City has been transformed into a 'metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression and self-reliance' where about 70,000 people have descended upon. In a matter of days, volunteers for the event built what is likely to be the state's busiest airport in the middle of an ancient dry lake-bed....

Houston, Texas is only beginning to take stock of the damage Hurricane Harvey has inflicted. But now the city has another problem on its hands. Floating colonies of fire ants, as many as 500,000 in one group, are banding together to stay above water in flood-wracked Houston—and they bite, according to Houstonia magazine, though no one has been bitten yet amid Houston’s flooding