Enypniastes Sea Cucumber

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                                                                                 This see-through sea cucumber, dubbed Enypniastes (pictured), was spotted at depths of about 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers) during a 2009 expedition in the northern Gulf of Mexico, scientists say. (See pictures of a deep-sea fish with a transparent head.)

                                                                                 The strange invertebrate creeps forward on its many tentacles while sweeping sediments filled with tiny critters into its mouth. When it's ready to find another feeding ground, the sea cucumber "blooms into a startling curved shape and swims away," CoML team members said in a statement.

Geese Police and Other Crime-Fighting Critters

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An elite gaggle of geese “police,” is now employed to ward off troublemakers in China’s rural Xinjiang province. But they're just the latest example of unexpected security animals hard at work around the world.

The geese are “extremely vigilant” and seem to be “better than dogs” at preventing crime, says Zhang Quansheng, a police chief in Xinjiang’s Shawan county.

Lions Increase Kills After a Full Moon

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Moon phases influence the behavior of all living things, including humans. Lunar power is due to two primary forces: gravity and light changes.
Lions and other predators attack more during the week after a full moon. “The first hours of the night are darkest during the week following a full moon, and the lions are hungriest at that time because of the low predation success during full moon nights,” according to Noga Kronfeld-Schor, who led a study on moonlight’s affect on various species. The paper is published in the latest Proceedings of the Royal Society B.