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A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south ...

Without meat, there’s no meal in our house. Nor does nature call. Supposing there’s meat for lunch and dinner six days a week and a vegetable is cooked on the seventh day for one meal, my father is ...

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Somewhere in southeastern Mexico, an angler pulled up his nets expecting the usual haul, but what he found instead left scientists a bit worried. His catch turned out to be an Amazon sailfin catfish, ...