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Department of Reptiles? Alligator found swimming around DC

This alligator wants your vote. According to NBC4, a small alligator was spotted in the Washington Channel in D.C.’s Southwest Waterfront neighborhood.  Resident Phoenix Norwood had spotted the reptile after the dockmaster sent out an alert regarding its presence. Norwood […]

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The im-possum-ible rescue

A possum in harm’s way was saved from possibly not just playing possum. According to the Shawnee Police Department in Kansas, one particular nocturnal critter found itself trapped inside a home’s fireplace. “Officer Satterfield recently rescued an opossum that had […]

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More like drink-panzee

There may be an evolutionary reason why a drink at the end of a long day sounds so good. A new study published on Science.org posits, “Human attraction to alcohol may derive from an evolutionary association between […]

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That’s a whole lotta rice

Hilda Baci has cooked her way into history. The Nigerian chef has set the Guinness World Record for staging the largest serving of Nigerian-style jollof rice, a signature dish of the African country. In all, Baci cooked up 8,780 kilograms of jollof […]