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Christmas trees show up with live 'ornaments'
Posted on Monday, 21 December, 2009 | 18 comments
Colored balls and tinsel might be regular adornments for Christmas trees this festive season but residents in Anchorage are being asked to keep an eye out for live frogs that have been turning up in trees sold in the area.
Forget the plastic icicles, brightly colored balls and tinsel. Some Christmas trees for sale in the Anchorage area are adorned with something truly different this holiday season — live Pacific Chorus frogs.
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Posted 9-4-2010 | 5 comments
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Posted 8-31-2010 | 12 comments
Large numbers of enormous Humboldt squid have been devouring livestock and even attacking humans....
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Posted 8-30-2010 | 18 comments
Nine of the world's largest moths - the giant Atlas moth - have hatched at a butterfly sanctuary in the UK....
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Posted 8-29-2010 | 2 comments
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Posted 8-29-2010 | 7 comments
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Luntik: The amazing cat with four ears
Posted 8-15-2010 | 12 comments
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Posted 8-10-2010 | 14 comments
A former soldier has become the first man to walk the entire 4,000 mile length of the Amazon river....
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Posted 8-9-2010 | 41 comments
A massive island of ice four times the size of Manhatten has broken off from one of Greenland's two main glaciers....
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Posted 8-7-2010 | 26 comments
A massive crocodile measuring over 22ft in length was killed after terrorising a remote Aboriginal community....
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Ancient species of shrimp discovered
Posted 7-30-2010 | 13 comments
A rare shrimp that could be the oldest animal species on the planet has been found alive and well in Scotland....
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Posted 7-30-2010 | 34 comments
A batch of large Chilean Rose tarantulas is feared to have become loose in the UK after two were found in gardens....
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Zedonk: Zebra, donkey hybrid born
Posted 7-29-2010 | 9 comments
It looks like a donkey but has a zebra's stripes and instincts - meet the zedonk, a cross between a donkey and a zebra....
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Recent comments on this story
#14 Posted by brlesq1 on 21 December, 2009, 20:35Cute! Do they come with ribbons?
#15 Posted by Paracelse on 22 December, 2009, 7:44just my two cents... aren't those trees kept outside prior to purchase????? and isn't sub-zero temp the norm in Anchorage this time of year????
#16 Posted by conspiracybeliever on 22 December, 2009, 14:02I know it's sick and disgusting now but as a kid it was a blast. Competing to see who's would go the farthest. The memories ....
#17 Posted by ~Onyx~ on 22 December, 2009, 14:14Meh, some of things I did as a kid were, shall we say a tad bit less than "wholesome".
#18 Posted by Shadow_of_Man on 13 January, 2010, 16:38Ah Christmas trees… celebrating the season of giving by taking the life of a tree only to throw it away when the season is done – and now destroying the home of some critter for it too. Merry Christmas!
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