FDA test confirms animal was in man's soda can

An FDA test shows that either a frog or a toad was in a Florida man's soda can. The Food and Drug Administration test confirmed that the remains of an animal were in Fred Denegri's can of Diet Pepsi. Denegri popped the can open July 23 as he was grilling dinner outdoors in Ormond Beach.

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Mouse builds nest egg in ATM with $20 bills

A mouse found inside an automatic teller machine — along with a nest it had built with chewed-up $20 bills — gave an Oregon gas station employee the surprise of her life. The mouse, discovered Thursday, had thoroughly torn up two bills and damaged another 14 to line his nest. Employee Millie Taylor said she screamed and slammed the machine's door shut.

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Scientists: Extinct Rodent Weighed a Ton

Eeek! Imagine a rodent that weighed a ton and was as big as a bull. Uruguayan scientists say they have uncovered fossil evidence of the biggest species of rodent ever found, one that scurried across wooded areas of South America about 4 million years ago, when the continent was not connected to North America.

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Scientists Discover Huge Extinct Rodent

Imagine a rodent so big it weighs a ton and is the size of a bull. Uruguayan scientists say they have uncovered fossil evidence of the biggest species of rodent ever found, one which roamed South America about 4 million years ago, when the continent was still an island.

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Spain Wields Weapons on Rodent Plague

What's a country to do with a millions-strong plague of crop-munching rodents? Ideas abound for Spain's Castille-Leon region to quell its infestation: Burn them. Drown them. Choke them with engine exhaust. Squish them with a rolling pin attached to a plow.

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Excerpt: History will show it was the squirrel who started this war. In an instinctive act of aggression, it occupied the territories known as the Jensens' attic. The Greendale family had no choice but to fight back.

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WEST PALM BEACH — Of mice and men, there are tales aplenty at the Palm Beach County Courthouse.

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Excerpt: The frozen remains of two lab mice infected with deadly strains of plague were lost at a bio-terror research facility at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark -- the same high security lab where three infected mice went missing four years ago.

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A customer claims a mouse was the main ingredient in her dish at a Chinese buffet in El Paso, Texas. Warning: the video is very graphic.

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Conservation group WWF says that more than 1,000 species new to science have been recorded in South-East Asia's Greater Mekong region over the past decade. More Articles

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Excerpt: Sugar can act on the brain like an addictive drug, according to new research.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Bakery executives are insisting that what appeared to be a mouse baked into a hot dog bun bought by a North Carolina man was actually a quirky chunk of dough.

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As vulnerable as naked mole rats seem, researchers now find the hairless, bucktoothed rodents are invulnerable to the pain of acid and the sting of chili peppers.

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Uruguayan scientists have unearthed the fossil of a prehistoric rodent they say weighed over 1,000 kg and could have been as much as three metres long, making it the largest rodent ever found. The scientists base their findings, published Wednesday, on the discovery of a skull m …

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A rogue squirrel launched a terrifying attack in a Florida playground that left three people injured, including a 3-year-old boy and a Highway Patrol trooper.

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They're surprisingly self-aware. They laugh when tickled, especially when they're young, and they have ticklish spots; tickle the nape of a rat pup's neck and it will squeal ultrasonically in a soundgram pattern like that of a human giggle.

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An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.

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A rock rat discovered in Laos in 1998 has turned out to be a "fossil species" - the sole survivor of a family thought to have disappeared 11 million years ago.

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A mere parasite controls the fate of rats and mice by hijacking the part of the brain that makes the rodents naturally fear cats, a new study shows.

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Man Accused Of Shooting Snorkeler Says He Thought Man Was Rodent A snorkeler who was shot in the head after he was apparently mistaken for a swimming rodent was in good condition after surgery...

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EUGENE, Oregon (Feb. 11) - A snorkeler who was shot in the face after he was apparently mistaken for a swimming rodent was in good condition after surgery, a hospital said Saturday. Wondering how a person could be mistaken for a rodent? Go take a look.

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I opened my web browser today and noticed a story about a man in Oregon who was snorkeling in a river and got shot in the head because some other guy thought he was a rodent.

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How to catch a mouse.

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A "strikingly unusual" new mammal has been discovered in the tree forests of Peru. The large rodent, which has been described by its finders as a "handsome novelty", looks similar to a squirrel and yet is most closely related to spiny rats.

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It wasn't Snakes on a Plane, but an Austrian Airlines jet made an unscheduled stop Friday after a passenger sneaked a hamster aboard and the rodent escaped. The flight from Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to the southern Austrian city of Graz made a stop in Innsbruck so officials cou …

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Mammal species do not seem to last very long in the grand scheme of things, persisting for an average of 2.5 million years, according to the fossil record.

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Hard on the heals of Snakes on a Plane comes Hamster on a Plane. Except this wasn't a movie. An Austrian Airlines flight had to make an unscheduled stop because some stupid passenger took an hamster on board which escaped.

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New animals, or even better, members of a long-since extinct family!

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So this is what's up with those frightening yet endearing smooshed rodents. WE LOVE THE SUBS!

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A man tries to kill a rodent buy setting it on fire, but it backfires cause the little mouse runs back into the house and sets fire to it.

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