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![a tortoise sits behind a baby bird on a log](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/M3MaZAHrsHVJa3KzYdrB5F-320-80.jpg)
Tortoise hunts baby bird in slow-motion, crushes its skull in shocking video
By Nicoletta Lanese published
This is the first video evidence of a tortoise hunting anything.
![The team observed that a whopping 48% of the centipedes' diet consisted of vertebrate animals.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aMT84VDyL6epfoFcqUGZbN-320-80.jpg)
These flesh-eating centipedes hunt and eat baby birds alive. Here's why.
By Ben Turner published
The centipedes hunt at night, striking young, defenceless petrel chicks in their nests and devouring them alive after injecting paralyzing venom.
![A group of six emperor penguins standing on the ice. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announce d a proposal to list the emperor penguin as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pCzwagkxu3zycNrobTxKR3-320-80.jpeg)
Melting sea ice could wipe out 98% of emperor penguins by the end of the century
By Harry Baker published
A new study has predicted that emperor penguins could become functionally extinct by the end of the century due to melting sea ice.
![A titmouse eyes a raccoon that is breaking into a bird feeder.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rShWPZoyGGkPDVid7Ke3WU-320-80.jpg)
Sneaky birds caught on video while yanking hair from live animals
By Cameron Duke published
YouTube videos show that birds pull animal hair more often than previously thought.
![Video of a cockatoo opening a trash can lid](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TuuxZeo4s2Bca7yRHpMQxC-320-80.gif)
'Trash parrots' in Australia have figured out how to open garbage cans (Video)
By Laura Geggel published
Wild cockatoos have figured out how to open garbage can lids, and the practice is spreading due to social learning.
![Two blue jays fight over a peanut.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CwuHJPuCATKigNhTRarHyi-320-80.jpg)
Mass bird die-off in eastern US baffles scientists
By Cameron Duke published
A mysterious illness is spreading throughout bird populations in the eastern U.S.
![The photo of a fry-snatching gull, captured in 2011 by photographer Hannah Huxford, quickly went viral and is now featured in a Google billboard campaign.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gmpXDVXTxXbrrDFLt9Qzs9-320-80.jpg)
This french-fry-stealing seagull is the star of a new Google ad
By Mindy Weisberger published
When a photographer snapped the moment a herring gull caught a french fry midair, the image quickly went viral. Now, the photo is appearing on Google billboards in Ireland and the U.K.
![Tasmanian devils are the largest carnivorous marsupials in the world.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mQR57pxMWABKf9gsovTKGM-320-80.jpg)
Tasmanian devils wipe out colony of little penguins in major conservation backfire
By Harry Baker published
Tasmanian devils introduced to Maria Island for their own conservation have created an ecological disaster in their new home by wiping out an entire population of little penguins.
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