&quot;Vicious&quot; piranhas are really wimps
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Despite their fearsome reputation, piranhas are wimps that gather in large shoals to protect themselves from predators, scientists said on Monday.
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By JOHN FLESHER TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - It hardly seems fair, but new research suggests that water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators may harm their species more than help.
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It&#39;s not doing &quot;Shark Tale&quot; any favors to compare it to &quot;Finding Nemo,&quot; last year&#39;s blockbuster cartoon about fish.
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Sure, most of it reads like filthy gibberish. But the authors of this dreck are not semi-literate perverts. They&#39;re cool, rational business folk who have found a sleazy but effective way to make a buck.
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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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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Is this you? You hate the Olympics. You don&#39;t know the difference between a discus and a high beam. You think Michael Phelps is the leader of a group of highly specialized government agents.
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Jon-Paul Bingham puts his life on the line every week for the sake of science. One wrong move, and he could become the hapless victim of a snail attack that could kill him.
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In Shark Tale, DreamWorks Animation&#39;s latest hit, a little hustler of a fish named Oscar (voiced by Will Smith) just can&#39;t stand the truth.
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The hagfish is a bottom feeder so repulsive it had a cameo on TV's "Fear Factor." It slimes its enemies, has rows of teeth on its tongue, and feeds on the innards of rotting fish by penetrating any orifice.
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It&#39;s amazing how little you need to make a really good movie: just throw a couple of actors into shark-infested waters and turn on the camera.
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All of the &quot;Open Water&quot; in the ocean won&#39;t dilute the film&#39;s undercurrent of tension. OK, let&#39;s get the inevitable analogy over with: &quot;Open Water&quot; does inherit the mantle of a certain Central Florida, micro-budgeted terror tale. We can nickname this one ...
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Writer/director Brad Bird (&quot;The Iron Giant&quot;) and the wizards at Pixar Animation Studios (&quot;Toy Story,&quot; &quot;Monsters, Inc,&quot; and &quot;Finding Nemo&quot;) have created a marvelous movie that works for children
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When you&#39;re making an R-rated puppet movie with controversial marionette-on-marionette sex scenes, you&#39;d think you&#39;d have all the controversy they can stomach.
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A new MyDoom worm released this week taunts the just-charged author of a rival malware line by including his mug shot. MyDoom.y -- but also called MyDoom.
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Think of germs as gangsters. One thug lurking on a corner you might outrun, but a dozen swaggering down the street? Yikes.
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It's scary being a little, tasty squirrel, but some species of the rodents have come up with an intimidating camouflage -- snake smells.
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Fossilized dinosaurs often have wide-open mouths, heads thrown back and tails that curve toward the head. Paleontologists have long assumed the dinosaurs died in water and the currents drifted the bones into that position, or that rigor mortis or drying muscles, tendons and ligaments contorted the limbs.  &quot;I&#39;m reading this in the literature and thinking, &#39;This doesn&#39;t make any sense to me as a veterinarian,&#39;&quot; said Cynthia Marshall Faux, a veterinarian-turned-paleontologist at the Museum of the Rockies. ...