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After five years, the Australian Feral Camel Management Project has barely made a dent in the enormous feral camel population. With the program ending in December, what is the future of these pesky ships of the desert?

Like Nancy Pelosi once said about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as “Obamacare,” “… we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.” Looks like the massive bill has US citizens covered for a wide range of animal associated injuries…

There are different varieties of red land crabs on islands and along coastal areas all over the world. They have a habit of migrating once a year in astonishing numbers that can seem more like a crustacean invasion. They swarm over everything, get in the way, and get run over by cars in the quest to reach their biological imperative -- to mate and reproduce.

Mark Zuckerberg's precursor to Facebook was called Facemash, an app that allowed testosterone-driven college males to determine which coeds were "hot" versus those who were "not." And while Facebook moved beyond this type of superficiality, there are still some who use the FB network to seek out prospective hook-ups. After all, man's attraction to "foxy-looking" ladies is an age-old past-time particularly when one's avatar becomes one's calling card.

Staff Sergeant Jesse Knott was already a combat veteran of Iraq when he was deployed to Afghanistan in 2010. Just about anyone can tell you that life in a war zone is anything but business as usual. It is a situation rife with stress. That is one of the reasons that Knott was drawn to a little stray cat that he saw wandering in and out of camp. Slowly a friendship began to blossom between the two.

In A Tale of Two Cities, when Charles Dickens penned his famous quote, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times," while he was relating how opposing factions viewed the French Revolution, one might make a similar observation regarding the return of the cicadas in June, 2013, after a 17-year hiatus.

Last March, one of the US Navy’s dolphins found a 130 year old self-propelled torpedo from the 19th century off the coast of San Diego. Talk about a collector’s item!

On December 26, 2004 a devastating tsunami hit coastal areas all over the Indian Ocean. More than 230,000 people in 14 countries lost their lives that day. Many stories of tragedy and miraculous survival arose in the days afterward as the survivors started to pick up the pieces of their lives. One of the most amazing tales of survival was that of one little girl and the elephant that saved her life.

Just in time for summer 2013, Sea World Orlando just launched their latest and coolest expansion, Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin, and it looks like an amazing adventure!