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Rats the Size of House Cats Invade the Florida Keys

A species of invasive African rat larger than the average house cat has made a reappearance in Grassy Key despite efforts to wipe them out for the past 10 years.

Mark Zaleski, AP

Rock Star: 340-Ton Boulder Goes on 22-City Tour

The rock, which may be the largest to be moved from start to finish since the Pyramids, recently started its 105-mile journey to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

A researcher dressed in a panda costume puts a panda cub into a box before its physical examination at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan province. Researchers performing physical examinations on the cub wear panda costumes to ensure that the cub's environment is devoid of human influence, according to local media.

Paid to Dress Like Pandas, Save the Species

How far would China’s conservationists go to safeguard the country’s giant pandas, a struggling species of a couple thousand? This far: oversized, fuzzily oppressive bear costumes.

A giant panda eats bamboo at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu

Giant Panda Accidently Gassed in China

This just might be the saddest news you will hear today—a giant panda, living in China’s Jinan Zoo, died after accidently being gassed with carbon monoxide and chlorine.