Animals & Wildlife

MIAMI, Nov. 20 (UPI) — A spokesman for Miami MetroZoo said one of its two jaguars died while undergoing surgery for a stomach problem.
Zoo spokesman Ron Magill said Palenque the jaguar died Wednesday, The Miami Herald reported Friday.
A necropsy was performed but results were pending.
Magill said the 129-pound male jaguar was kept separate from Miami [...]

TOURS, France, Nov. 19 (UPI) — French and U.S. scientists say they’ve found a species of sea star remains cool by retaining cold sea water as a buffer against damaging high temperatures.
The researchers from the University of South Carolina and Francois Rabelais University in Tours, France, say the strategy has never been seen in [...]

CHICAGO, Nov. 19 (UPI) — Two paleontologists said at least one species of crocodiles that existed nearly 100 million years ago in Africa actually fed on dinosaurs.
University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and Hans Larsson of Canada’s McGill University said a 20-foot-long, saber-toothed crocodile dubbed the BoarCroc actually included dinosaurs in its diet, USA Today [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 19 (UPI) — The Great Ape Trust plans to move its orangutans from its flood-damaged facility in Des Moines, Iowa, to another city, officials said.
The trust campus on the outskirts of Des Moines will continue to be home to six bonobos, The Des Moines Register reported. But last year’s flood [...]

RUSSELLVILLE, Ala., Nov. 19 (UPI) — Administrators at an Alabama elementary school said a deer crashed through a plate glass window and joined students in the cafeteria during breakfast.
Principal Romona Robinson of West Elementary School in Russellville said as a small group of children ate breakfast in the cafeteria Wednesday morning a small doe [...]