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The attack happened in Siren, Burnett County, on 6 September, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Owen Beierman, 12, took aim at the bear as it pinned down his dad while they were on a legal hunting trip. The pair were hunting for black bear near the family's cabin when they spotted the 200lb (91kg) bruin. Owen shot and injured the animal, which ran off into dense forest. They gave chase, and as they entered a glade the animal charged at Mr Beierman from about 6ft (1.8m) away. He said he fired eight shots at the bruin with...

The head of a company developing gas in a vast 28,000km-wide Northern Territory basin south of Darwin says the site can provide the type of energy revolution Australia needs as a power crisis continues to plague the territory. The head of a company developing gas in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin says the “huge” resource has the potential to transform the Australian energy market, lowering gas prices and reducing emissions. Empire Energy managing director Alex Underwood told Sky News his company expected to produce the first gas from the Beetaloo by mid-2025. “Just in the next five or six weeks...

A 200-year-old South African cave painting made by the region’s first inhabitants, the San people, appears to depict an animal that has been extinct for over 200 million years. A long-bodied animal with downward-turned tusks, the warm-blooded, lizard-like creature called a dicynodont (two-toothed dog) roamed the area before the first dinosaur appeared and died off at the end of the Triassic. If the artwork from the cave’s Horned Serpent panel at La Belle France (Free State Province, South Africa) is of this extinct species, its creation would predate the first known scientific classification of a dicynodont by at least a...

At the turn of the 20th century, there were thousands of electric vehicles in operation around the world. ================================================================== By the 1890s, steam had established itself as the main source of power for trains, industrial applications and even the occasional passenger car. Gasoline-powered personal transportation was still in its infancy. So electric vehicles were preferred by most because they didn’t require a dangerous crank-starting procedure, they didn’t backfire and spew oil everywhere, and they were perceived as quiet and torquey. Remember, this was a time when you'd get gasoline from your local pharmacist or the area blacksmith, if you had...

A first-of-its-kind for habitat selection. Image courtesy of Miguel Vences Rejoice! There’s a new tiny chameleon on the block. Hailing from Madagascar, it joins other miniature chameleons in the Brookesia genus, subgenus Evoluticauda. At little bigger than the end of your forefinger, it was a remarkable spot in what’s presently a highly threatened habitat in Madagascar. The new-to-science species has been named Brookesia nofy after the forest it was found in, known as Ankanin’ny Nofy. Sitting at about sea level, it’s a littoral forest making this the first of the mini chameleons to be found in this kind of habitat....

BOSTON - A Cape Air flight from Boston to Maine landed safely on what appeared to be one wheel after a landing gear problem forced the small plane to return to Logan Airport Tuesday. Flight 1833 to Bar Harbor had three people on board. Cape Air said the pilot "was alerted to a landing gear anomaly shortly after take-off." Just after 3:15 p.m., the Cessna 402 returned to Logan with emergency crews standing by. WBZ-TV's helicopter captured the landing on video. After touching down on the runway, the small plane skidded to a halt near the grass. The people on...

The beauty of baseball is there’s always a first we haven’t seen before, and here we go again. Tuesday night’s game between the Houston Astros and San Diego Padres couldn’t have been more filled with drama, and then when we got to the ninth inning, things started to overflow when Houston superstar Jose Altuve was up to bat with two outs and a runner on second base. The game was tied 3-3 at the time. Squaring off against San Diego relief pitcher Robert Suarez, Altuve knocked what originally appeared to be a grounder to third to put an end to...

Below are the results of Year 4 of the Natural Landscape Photography Awards! This gallery showcases the photographs chosen by our judging panel. Each image’s RAW file has been vigorously checked to ensure it meets our unique rules.

A 12-year-old boy slayed a 200-pound bear to save his father’s life during a family outing gone horribly wrong. Owen Beierman, 12, shot-and-killed the black bear before it could fatally maul his dad, Ryan, who became pinned under the monstrous beast when shots fired to kill it missed. ‘My left cheek was sliced open and blood was oozing out of the flap. There were two fang marks in my forehead and my face was smattered with blood,’ Ryan told the Star Tribune. ‘The bear was fighting for its life, and I was fighting for mine,’ he continued.... Owen, a regular...

Hundreds of sand pyramids are being constructed on Cowell Beach in Santa Cruz as part of an art exhibit by Jim Denevan, his son, Brighton and dozens of volunteers. "It's a reference to the most well-known pyramid in Egypt, just in the sense it has the same angle, same four sides, same steepness, basically," Jim Denevan said. "And so in use, in a sense, when you walk through, you can reference maybe Egypt. But yes, it's a pyramid." "It's creating beauty from nature. And nature's already beautiful, but somebody is making it more beautiful," Cindy Martino added. "They're creating art...

A larvae emerges from an adult fruit fly. (Moore et al., Nature, 2024) ======================================================================= A team of biologists has stumbled across a new species of wasp in an unlikely place: the back end of an adult fruit fly. The wasp is a previously undescribed species the researchers named Syntretus perlmani. And the strangest thing about it? It begins its life in the abdomen of adult Drosophila flies, a place that, as far as we know, no other wasps are willing to go. Though parasitoid wasps lay their young in the bodies of all kinds of insects, up to 200 species...

A case of mistaken municipality had an emergency call from a boat sinking in the English Channel off the coast of Dover, England go to local rescuers in Dover, Delaware, prompting them to help save stranded sailors ================================================================== Have you ever answered the phone and realized the person on the other end of the line meant to call someone else? Well, that happened to 911 dispatchers in Dover, Delaware. NBC10’s Tim Furlong has the story. Police in Dover, Delaware, helped save a boat stranded at sea more than 3,650 miles away when an emergency call meant for Dover, England, mistakenly...

Mississippi's 2024 alligator hunting season got off to a whopping start when a team of six hunters reeled in one of the largest monsters ever caught in the state. The 14-foot-long, 802-pound alligator was caught in the Yazoo River, which stretches over 2,000 miles through Mississippi and Louisiana. The group stood proudly with their catch for photographs, and all six were needed to hold up the lifeless creature. The yearly hunt kicked off last month and is set to run until September 9, allowing participants to take home their prize for 'wallets, belts and eating,' according to state rules. The...

In a couple of weeks, Earth will have a mini-moon for 56.6 days. Welcome to the neighborhood, 2024 PT5. Image credit: Buradaki/Shutterstock.com An asteroid heading towards Earth is set to have an unusual fate: instead of smashing through our planet’s atmosphere, it’s likely to become trapped in orbit and become a mini-moon. It will be a swift visit, however, and is likely to only remain in Earth's gravitational grasp for two months. The asteroid, named 2024 PT5, was discovered on August 7 and measures around 10 meters (33 feet) in diameter. Two astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid, Carlos...

UPDATE: 9/13, 2:20 p.m. ET - Alf child star Benji Gregory's cause of death has been revealed. The local medical examiner confirmed to TMZ on Friday, September 13, that Gregory died from heat exposure in the setting of hepatic cirrhosis (scarring of the liver). The actor was found dead in his car. Original story: Former child star Benji Gregory has died at age 46. The Maricopa County Medical Examiner's office confirmed on Wednesday, July 10, that Gregory died on June 13, in Arizona, according to Deadline. His cause of death has not yet been determined. TMZ was first to break...

New research has revealed high-altitude air in Earth’s atmosphere is teeming with living organisms, a discovery that challenges our views on the dispersal of microbes and their relationship to human health. The findings, made by an international collective of climate, health, and atmospheric specialists based in Japan and Spain, has revealed Earth’s atmosphere is populated with a surprisingly diverse array of living bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Discovered at altitudes as high as 1,000 to 3,000 meters, the organisms included several potential human pathogens, revealing their ability to travel over great distances and prompting new concerns about their impact on health...

MARION COUNTY, Fla. - A Florida man has been arrested after he was caught keeping alligators and several freshwater slider turtles on his property, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). Wildlife officers arrived at his Marion County home after receiving a tip about him possibly having two alligators in his backyard swimming pool. When the two FWC officers questioned him about it, he initially denied having alligators on his property, but later admitted the reptiles were in his pool, officials said. While investigating the property, officers also found an alligator that had been recently killed and...

I have a Gamo 1000 fps .177 caliber air rifle that I am using to teach my grandson to shoot. I bought Daisy pellets for ammo and I think that they are a bad batch because I can't get a consistent grouping. I am at best 12 inch groups at 20 yards. I am looking for recommendations for good quality pellets.

An aggressive otter pulled a young child off a dock and dragged them underwater at a marina in Washington, officials said. The attack happened at about 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 at the Bremerton Marina, the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife said in a news release. A family was walking down the dock when the animal appeared and pulled the child underwater for a few moments, officials said. The mom reached into the water to rescue her child and was bitten on the arm by the attacking otter, officials said. She was able to get her child to safety,...

That otter leave a mark. A woman was left crying in a pool of her own blood after getting savaged by a gang of otters in Malaysia. The unidentified victim had reportedly been jogging through Tanjung Aru Recreation Park in Sabah when she was beset by eight of the beasts, Viral Press reported. Accompanying footage shows the water weasel octet fleeing the scene after the attack.