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Killer shrimp stalks California aquarium
SAN FRANCISCO -- Workers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium have been trying to capture a lightning-quick mantis shrimp that has been wreaking havoc for months in a coral reef exhibit.
Only the shells remain from prized sea snails, barnacles and hermit crabs. Workers suspect the shrimp got into the tank after burrowing into a shipment of display rocks shipped from Florida.
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South African man bites python, escapes death
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- On Wednesday, a South African newspaper reported that a man escaped the tightening grip of a python snake by biting it.
"I decided the only way to save myself from this monster was to bite it just below the head," the man told the paper.
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Phone company prints pornographic URL on phone books
NASSAU, Bahamas -- A mass recall of telephone books is underway in the Bahamas after the Web address of a pornographic site was printed on the cover of more than 170,000 directories.
Customers waited in line Tuesday for government workers to collect their phone book, cross out the address with a black marker and hand it back to them.
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Giant tuna sells for record $173,600
TOKYO, Japan -- A 444-pound bluefin tuna fetched a whopping $173,600 at the first auction of the year on Friday in Tokyo's main fish market.
The $391 per pound fish will likely be sold as raw sushi, a delicacy that can command a price of more than $100 for a plate of slices.
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A career in roadkill
(CNN) -- Add Charles Brannon to those whose jobs are harder lately because of the unusually harsh winter. Brannon has a contract to pick up and dispose of dead deer along state roads in four counties of northeastern Pennsylvania.
"A hot deer and the cold pavement -- they freeze instantly to the surface," Brannon laments. "You can't even chisel them off -- I've tried that. There's really nothing you can do."
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