Meteors? Volcanoes? Pish posh. The greatest cause of mass extinction, as a new study suggests, and The Day After Tomorrow attests, is the ocean. In case you were wondering, this doesn't count the great dino die-off. Story in the full article.

Like a scene from a bad B-horror movie, swarms of crazed ants have infiltrated the state of Texas and is now wreaking havoc throughout its electrical infrastructures. Known as the crazy rasberry ants - crazy, cos they do not follow those ant lines we usually see and are erratically wandering off, and rasberry, named after Tom Rasberry who battled it out with them previously - they have found Texan electrical wirings to be delicious for some odd, crazy reason.

Everybody can think of certain rare occasions when they were at the right place at the right time. That certainly applies to a group of tourists, their boat skipper and their tour operator. All of them managed to film some killer whales holding a dolphin hunt in Algoa Bay, off the coast of South Africa recently. More on this serendipitous find after the jump.

The predator and prey scenario has always been a natural recurring thing in nature. Scientists from the University of Bristol conducted a study which looked into the prey instincts of European starlings and how they respond to stimulus from predators. Find out more about this in our full article after the jump.

We're serving one giant heap of calamari news today. Apparently a giant squid was caught in the Antarctic waters last 2007. Now, it's being thawed at the Museum of New Zealand. According to scientists, if the giant animal was still alive, its eyes would be as big as beach balls. Read more on their findings in the full article.

Bees make honey, everyone knows that. But more often than not, everyone overlooks their other, more important function in the food chain: natural and effective pollinators of plants. If bees were not around to pollinate, the world would definitely be a hungrier place - and such is the reason why we should be scared that plants are bees are now currently being killed off. The details in the full article.

"Gone, but not forgotten" is a phrase we often attribute to those who have passed on.  The phrase once applied to Javan elephants, as they were thought extinct. We said "once" because new evidence suggests that these animals may not really have died out after all. Find out why this is the case after the jump.

If humans can bounce back from rough times, then coral reefs can, too. For example, the corals along the Bikini Atoll have been flourishing again after the atomic blast bombardment of the area many years ago. More on Mother Nature's regenerative powers after the jump.

If you thought drinking reptile blood to gain an athletic edge was icky, you may be surprised how much medical value there actually is in the practice. Alligator blood has some pretty awesome infection-fighting abilities, and drugs made from it can even help treat AIDS and organ transplant patients. More details after the jump.

Some of you might have heard the story of the horse that could count. His name was Clever Hans and he could perform basic arithmetic. However, he was proven to be a fraud. In an ironic twist, a new study has found that horses actually can count - although addition may be something else entirely. How did scientists figure out that horses can count? Read the full article to find out.