Fish and Amphibians

In October 2022, Connecticut's Niantic Bay was the scene of an out-of-the-ordinary rare catch of a slimy and long fish. Angler Steve Bender hooked what he thought was a monster, according to Hearst Connecticut Media.    At first, he thought he reeled in a mammoth blackfish, but when he finally battled it out of the water, he quickly found out he had caught a state record conger eel 4.3 feet long and weighed in at 13 pounds, 13 ounces! Monster Eel Caught in Connecticut Waters 6 'Under the Radar' Restaurants in Connecticut You Must Try 8 Restaurants in Greater Danbury With Delectable Seafood Choices

Union Minister Amit Shah arrived in Hubballi, Karnataka on January 27. Amit Shah News, Bengaluru Highlights, January 28: Union Minister Amit Shah is visiting the Hubbali and Belagavi districts of Karnataka on Saturday in his second visit to poll-bound Karnataka in a month. While he was in Mandya district and Bengaluru on December 30 and 31 last year , Shah will this time visit Hubballi-Dharwad, also called the Kittur-Karnataka region. Shah will participate in the BJP's Vijaya Sankalpa Abhiyana in Kundagol and pray at the city's Shambulingeshwara temple. He will launch the programme by doing a wall painting in ward no. 7 and at booth no. 50 of Kundagol. Meanwhile, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Friday issued a notice to meat vendors and restaurants in the vicinity of Yelahanka Air Force Station to stop the sale of meat and non-vegetarian dishes from January 30 to February 20 owing to Aero India-2023 which will be held from February 13 to 17. This measure is tak...

Copperas Cove resident Eric Stoodley is a husband, father, veteran and knowledgeable catfish angler. Stoodley recently added some high-end marine electronics to his boat, but while fishing a small tournament at Lake Brownwood, realized some adjustments would be necessary to that equipment if he was going to reap the full benefit of his sonar system. After returning home after the tournament and fine-tuning his electronics based on lessons learned at Lake Brownwood, the U.S. Army and National Guard veteran took his boat to Lake Austin on the Colorado River to once again put the new gear to the test in a real-world scenario. "Late morning of 6 February 2023, I decided to take a solo trip to Lake Austin to test out my new electronics," Stoodley re...

Over a century ago, when Abraham Lincoln first established the federal holiday now known as President's Day, he probably never dreamed of the future impact on U.S. retail. Scholars say Honest Abe was a pretty frugal guy, however. So, if he were still around today, he just might appreciate all the sales going down this weekend—heck, he might even be a Costco member! (Most likely, a Gold Star member, but that's beside the point.) Modern-day Americans can nonetheless take advantage over the next few days, as the nation's largest warehouse club is advertising big savings on household goods like mattresses and major appliances. It's also offering some significant discounts on groceries, too. Check out some of Costco's most tantalizing food and drink deals going on right now.  Keep in mind: the prices you see here are online only. You can usually save more by shopping in-person at the warehouse near you. ...

It's lunchtime and Peanut, the restaurant robot host, greets Vicki and Troy Charlton with a digital eye wink and a cheerful squeak: "Here you are! Please follow me to your table!" The four-foot-tall robot on wheels whirs around and rolls away to escort the Charltons to their dining table at Mr. Q Crab House, a Cajun seafood restaurant on State Road 7 in Hollywood. A calming, if bizarre, soundtrack plays on Peanut's built-in speakers. Once they order from a human server and their meals are plated, a second robot busser runs the food to their table, dishes of shrimp and broccoli stacked neatly on its three serving trays. "Thank you," says Vicki Charlton. "You're welcome!" the robot chirps back. "I could use one of these at home, a robot maid that cooks and feeds me," she says with a laugh. Mr. Q's owner, Joy Wang, takes the implicit nod to "The Jetsons" as a compliment. For weeks she's struggled to hire front-of-house ...

Darren says that when he moved into his new townhome in the Miami metropolitan area last year, he was welcomed by friendly neighbors until he started feeding green iguanas on his property with his hands and mouth. "I love to feed the iguanas, I'm friends with the iguanas, I take care of the iguanas, and I'm starting to [expletive] a lot of people," Darren says. Darren says some neighbors have complained, cursed at him, and reported him to the homeowner's association, but he claims they're just "jealous" because the iguanas eat their plants and not his. With three invasive species of iguana living in South Florida causing damage to homes, fences, and plants in the region that officials have sanctioned the humane extermination of the creatures. Still, Darren says he doesn't think he's doing anything wrong by feeding them. On Friday's episode, "Feuding Neighbors: 'Stop Feeding the Iguanas!'" Dr. Phil talks with one of Darre...

RALEIGH, N.C. — The big news this week is that Oscar Diaz, the two-time James Beard Award nominated chef behind Cortez Seafood + Cocktail (who also recently opened the cocktail bar Cuya just upstairs from Cortez), will be venturing into Durham with a new spot called Little Bull. The menu will include comfort staples as 'pocho cuisine,' like Diaz's take on dumplings (stuffed with birria), steak served with giardinera chimi churri and confit papas and a 'pinche ensaladota' with local greens. It will be located in the Old Five Points neighborhood in downtown Durham (formerly Jetplane Coffee) with plans to open in March. Diaz will co-own the restaurant along with Mezcalito Group. Best to follow along on Instagram here. Wake County Restaurant News The Downtown Raleigh Alliance shared the news this week that Amitie Macaron has opened their storefront in downtown Raleigh. They are located just across from Young Hearts Distilling and just behind Carroll's Kitchen ...

Abstract Whether snakes evolved their elongated, limbless bodies or their specialized skulls and teeth first is a central question in squamate evolution. Identifying features shared between extant and fossil snakes is therefore key to unraveling the early evolution of this iconic reptile group. One promising candidate is their unusual mode of tooth replacement, whereby teeth are replaced without signs of external tooth resorption. We reveal through histological analysis that the lack of resorption pits in snakes is due to the unusual action of odontoclasts, which resorb dentine from within the pulp of the tooth. Internal tooth resorption is widespread in extant snakes, differs from replacement in other reptiles, and is even detectable via non-destructive μCT scanning, providing a method for identifying fossil snakes. We then detected internal tooth resorption in the fossil snake Yurlunggur , and one of the oldest snake fossils, Portugalophis , suggesting that it is one of the earliest ...