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I have 2 shark jaws on my wall, each as fearsome as this. They came from a 6′ and 9′ bronze whaler shark, one I cut from the shark’s head 35 years ago. I still remember how hard it was to do ….

But of course I was not a fucking stupid as this lad. I put them somewhere were they would not be subject to nocturnal interactions. They are safe on my office wall, looking at me now. Beautiful things. Not grotesquely set in kitsch some fiberglass shell of a head.

Of course, being mostly on the wall did not stop one girl getting her head stuck in one when my daughter took it for show and tell at school.  All ended well, the jaw was undamaged and she only needed three band aids and some antiseptic wipes.

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Researchers at the Townsville Aquarium are excited about a new jelly fish they have found.

Dr Lisa Gershwin lead researcher, said the jellyfish was not found in the open ocean, but in a jellyfish tank at the aquarium.

It is an unusual looking jellyfish - about 1 cm long and looking well, rather like snot on the bottom of the tank.

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The Northern Territory news reports about a woman who survived an extraordinary crocodile attack 23 years ago has been killed by a snake.

Respected ecologist, feminist and renowned author Val Plumwood who described her death roll with the giant saltie as “terror, terror, terror” was found dead on her wilderness property.

The species of snake responsible for her death was still unknown last night.

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It seems some people are just plain dumb.

Like the lawyer you jumps into the ocean AFTER the water has been laced with fish blood and fish parts.

Or like tour operators who lace the water with fish blood and fish parts and then tell their clients to jump in.

If course the client that you do especially do NOT want to have a problem with is a lawyer.

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A rule at Camden-Rockport Middle School that prevents use of naturally bodily functions has well, sort of blown up in their faces…

A short article for a school newsletter written by two eighth-grade girls at CRMS about boys intentionally flatulating to disrupt classes created a national media sensation, according to Principal Maria Libby.

“The article on ‘intentional flatulence’ written in the informal FireCracker Newsletter last week moved from the classroom to the Village Soup [online newspaper] to national headlines with lightning speed,” Libby said.

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The media in PNG is abuzz with reports that a dragon is on the loose, with the potential to kill anyone who crosses its path.

Locals in the villages of Butibam and Sipaia have been told to be on the lookout for the dragon, especially when making their way to their gardens to to the river.

The region is very isolated and so far, about four sightings have been made at Butibam, village court magistrate Jonathan Benjamin said.

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Following survey revelations about crippled chickens in UK battery hen farms, we have discovered that researchers in Russia are working to develop a new, legless chicken in a bid to overcome some of the issues related to battery poultry production.

Dr Aleksandr Polutivin, who leads up the project at the All-Russian Research Institute for Animal Health near Vladimir in Russia, says the problem is very real.

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A police guard has been set up at a dead whale found on a South Australian beach, after an arthritis sufferer tried to crawl inside the six metre long carcass.

Local Parks and Wildlife ranger, Jack Irinton, said the 60 year old man approached the carcass and produced a knife and cut the carcasss before putting his hands inside.

“Onlookers were amazed to the this happening and rushed forward to prevent his entry.

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Global warming will present rewards for businesses who are quick to adapt to the new opportunities from diminished ice covering and altered weather patterns, according to pundits at a think-tank held in Memphis yesterday.

Speaking at the first annual “Greenhouse for Greater Future” thinktank held in Memphis, Texas, organizer and leading business opportunist Larry Heit-Jackson said too many people were looking at the negatives of global warming and not enough at the opportunities unfolding before us.

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A ground breaking new research project is showing that plastic bags may not be all that harmful to the environment after all, according to a report in the journal Nature Science.

Dr Lan Arned, from Sweden’s Environment Research Institute, says plastic bags form an important outlet for a byproduct of oil refining and banning them would merely create new issues of what to do with that raw material.

He says the bags are not the issue, nor the way they are disposed of, but merely their color.

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