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Watch rare footage of huge crocodile eating baby hippo with umbilical cord still attachedA crocodile in Kenya's Mara River was filmed thrashing around with the corpse of a baby hippo in its jaws in unusual sighting. It is unclear if the crocodile killed the calf or if it snatched a stillborn.
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'This is the cost of living in seawater': The ingenious and (to us) heartbreaking way turtles survive the salty oceansIn this extract from the new book Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works, oceanographer Helen Czerski explains the ingenious way turtles contend with the extreme saltiness of the sea.
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'They mated like mad': Low-flying helicopter sparks massive crocodile orgy in AustraliaA Chinook helicopter flying above a crocodile farm in Queensland appears to have set off a huge sexy frenzy, with the crocs mistaking the noise and vibrations as a signal it was time to make babies.
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Indian crocodiles seen saving dog from feral pack attack, but scientists divided over what it meansCrocodiles appeared to rescue a dog that had been chased into a river, and scientists said this unusual behavior could indicate empathy — but others are skeptical.
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Snake choking on invasive fish the size of its head saved by scientistA snake in France had a lucky escape after attempting to eat a fish with a spiny dorsal fin that had gotten lodged into the reptile's esophagus.
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Florida alligator weighing over 900 pounds could have been 90 years old when caughtThe enormous alligator was over 13 feet long and weighed 920 pounds — the second heaviest ever to be caught in Florida.
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Ancient sea monsters grew their long necks super fast after Great Dying by adding more vertebraeSome of these aquatic reptiles of the dinosaur era had dozens of individual bones running down their long necks.
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Move over, python — this tiny snake holds the record for swallowing the largest prey whole relative to body sizeThe Gans' egg-eater, an African snake, can swallow eggs whole despite its small size.
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800-pound alligator is the longest ever caught in MississippiThe gigantic animal measured 14 feet and 3 inches long, beating the previous record for the longest alligator caught by permitted hunters by more than 2 inches.
