What's Biting at Crocs?
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Insider sales are fast and furious at this trendy footwear maker.
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SYDNEY, Australia - Police discovered scores of reptiles, including deadly snakes and three crocodiles, in a suburban Sydney home, officials said Saturday.    David O'Shannessy of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said his staff found three baby crocodiles, and snakes including death adders, taipans, red bellied black snakes and pythons among more than 100 animals in the house...
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A new fossil find suggests that the crocodile's crushing jaws evolved on dry land&#151;and long before its water-friendly body.
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do well to turn to a UN site that counsels if you can&#39;t beat them eat them. swarms that have landed in Cyprus from Africa. &quot;Here are a few local recipes from locust-affected countries,&quot; a page on the FAO Web site says.
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MIAMI _ From time to time, I have lamented in this space about what I call the bite of the wrong fish. In other words, you go out fishing with a noted guide in order to write a story about a particular species and that turns out to be the one species you can't catch.
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In this excerpt from Peter Godwin's 'When a Crocodile Eats the Sun,' the author recounts the post-surgical experience of his motherâa medical doctorâafter she undergoes a hip replacement during a national protest strike against the Mugabe government.
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The parasitic dodder plant doesn't have a nose, but it knows how to sniff out its prey. The dodder attacks such plants as tomatoes, carrots, onions, citrus trees, cranberries, alfalfa and even flowers, and is a problem for farmers because chemicals that kill the pesky weed also damage the crops it feeds on.
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Most  afternoons in Yemen, the men gather for social occasions and political discussions. They chew the fresh leaves of a plant called khat. The leaves are a mild stimulant and the men store them in their cheeks as they talk. Though they may be armed with machine guns,  Kalashnikov rifles and crescent-shaped swords, there is never any fighting at these events. The purpose is to bond, negotiate power relationships, share information, make policy decisions and explore solutions to particularly divisive issues. These are called "khat chews."
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Scientists have identified a new bug which has evolved in insects to attack humans.
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The popular Heelys, shoes with detachable wheels in the heels, topped this year's "10 Worst Toys" list created by the Massachusetts consumer group World Against Toys Causing Harm . This past March a boy wearing Heelys died when he collided with a car.
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(HealthDay News) -- Although often labeled man's best friend, a dog's instinct may tell him to bite to protect himself around those he doesn't know -- especially excitable children.
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Kids using roller shoes should  always wear protective gear, and parents should supervise  children carefully as they navigate the &quot;steep learning curve&quot;  involved in mastering their use, UK researchers report.
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Tycho:  I have no time for Lair, I'm afraid.  My limited playtime with the game has only encouraged me to further limit said playtime, throttling this value until it reaches zero.  As one of the long-known exclusives, a kind of cult has formed around the game - one whose creed hinges on the glorious arrival of their reptile saint.  It is a weird hunger, one quite outside reality, and it would be best to manage those expectations before their piss-smelling vagrant messiah stumbles into the retail channel.
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Chewing gum, homosexuality, public protests... the list of things frowned upon is long in Singapore. But satire? Yes, that too. Seriously.
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CAIRNS, Australia A doctor says a pair of Australian campers are &quot;pretty lucky&quot; after tangling with a big crocodile. Authorities say the 14-foot croc grabbed a man as he slept in a tent at a campsite in Queensland.
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A 59-year-old man's arm was bitten off by an alligator as he snorkeled in a South Carolina lake, but doctors were unable to reattach it. Bill Hedden, of Summerville, was bitten by an 11-foot, 10-inch alligator on Sunday afternoon in Lake Moultrie.
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The fossilized neck bones of a 230-million-year-old sea creature have features suggesting that the animal&#39;s snakelike throat could flare open and create suction that would pull in prey.