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Cloned Puppies: Sure, They're Cute, But at What Cost? (548 diggs) When skin cells from a dead pit bull named Booger gave rise to five healthy-looking puppies with a $50,000 price tag, it marked the formal beginning of a commercial dog-cloning industry. But for all the attention given to these and other clones, little was paid to the behind-the-scenes science.

Lost Humpback Whale Calf Bonds With Yacht (803 diggs) Australian media say a lost humpback whale calf has bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother. The 1- to 2-month-old calf was first sighted Sunday in waters off north Sydney, and on Monday tried to suckle from a yacht, which it would not leave.

The Panda from Apocalypse Now [PIC] (1,167 diggs) Do not mess with this bear.

Jesus these hands are small! (pic) (2,256 diggs) oh....wait a second...

Albino Python Steals The Show (677 diggs) The chick certainly likes the snake in his pants. :-)

Lobster (PIC) (2,443 diggs) Moments after this tender moment, she dropped him into a steaming cauldron.

Polar bear eaten by shark? What? Who's the top predator? (719 diggs) Already threatened by a thaw of ice around the North Pole, the polar bear's title as the top Arctic predator may under challenge from a shark. Scientists researching how far sharks hunt seals in the Arctic were stunned in June to find part of the jaw of a young polar bear in the stomach of a Greenland shark, a species that favors polar waters.

You Looking at Me... Looking at You... Looking at Me (1,097 diggs)

You're Getting Sleepy... My Delicious Friend (1,062 diggs)

Cloned Puppies May Have Exposed 31 Year Mystery (1,455 diggs) A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She may be the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave.