Wince-inducing footage appears to show a snake writhing in pain after being pierced with a porcupine’s spike after attempting to eat it.

A video captures the boa constrictor squirming as dozens of white quills protrude from its skin in Brazil.

The impaled reptile had apparently attempted to eat the porcupine – but came off worse when the animal defended itself with its quills.

Wince-inducing footage appears to shows a snake writhing in pain

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Fotografía de archivo de un tigre de Tasmania, que se cree extinto desde 1936 - EFE

Un grupo de expertos tratará de confirmar la pervivencia de los Tigres de Tasmania como especie tras dos posibles avistamientos que alumbran la esperanza de hallar un ejemplar vivo de ese animal, que se cree extinto desde 1936.

El tilacino, parecido a un tigre por las franjas que cruzaban su lomo, llegó a habitar en Australia y en Nueva Guinea, aunque a la llegada de los europeos en el siglo XVIII su población se concentraba principalmente en la isla de Tasmania. Read the rest »

It has been extinct since the early 1930s but one man claims he has sighted a family of Tasmanian tigers roaming in far north Queensland.

Queensland tourism operator Brian Hobbs claims the Tasmanian Tiger is not extinct at all after he reportedly saw the animal in Queensland’s remote Cape York.

Mr Hobbs revealed his unlikely encounter with the Tasmanian Tiger – officially known as the thylacine – while camping in the far north Queensland town n 1983.

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The Tasmanian Tiger (pictured) has been extinct since the early 1930s but people swear they have sighted the animal in years since

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Los científicos pudieron ver al menos 15 ejemplares. Tienen esperanzas de que la especie podría salvarse Read the rest »

A freakishly large chicken is taking the internet by storm, leaving viewers scared – and more than a little confused.

The video, first posted on March 17, features a massive chicken struggling to get out of a coop.

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En el video que se ha propagado como pólvora por las redes sociales este fin de semana se ve un ave descomunal intentando salir del gallinero. Cuando finalmente logra incorporarse en toda su estatura pareciera que estamos frente al antepasado mesozoico de las gallinas de granja de hoy en día. Read the rest »

Threesomes are a tricky business – especially if you’re a male wolf spider.

The spiders’ kinky three-way sex can go on for as long as four hours and the third wheel waits for the other male to woo the female before he joins in.

These unholy unions are believed to be an evolutionary advantage for the male spider as it reduces the chance of him getting eaten alive by the bloodthirsty female.

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Matthew Persons, a professor of biology and ecology at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania said that threesomes have an evolutionary advantage for the ‘third wheeling’ male wolf spider

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La desaparición del mamut, el legendario y peludo paquidermo prehistórico, tiene su origen en las alteraciones de los genomas, según un nuevo estudio de su ADN. Read the rest »

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Ya sabemos que los perros no pueden comer chocolate porque su metabolismo no es capaz de procesarlo, pero ¿y queso? ¿Qué tipo de frutas son buenas para ellos y cuáles no? Here Pup! ha elaborado una genial infografía que resume algunos de los alimentos más comunes. Read the rest »