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Sister hit crocodile in the head after it attacked in a lagoon where they had been swimming. A British woman is in a serious coma in Mexico after she was mauled by a crocodile in a lagoon where she and her twin sister was swimming in the company of a tour guide. (Photo : Getty Images) The Encounter 28-year-old Melissa and Georgia Laurie, from Berkshire, had been swimming in the lagoon, around 10 miles from Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, on the south-east coast of the country, when Melissa was mauled...

(Photo : Wikimedia Commons) (Photo : Wikimedia Commons) According to fossil evidence, the extinct horned crocodiles (Voay robustus) were native to Madagascar as far back as 9,000 years ago and survived as recently as 1,300 to 1,400 years ago. The beasts were first discovered in 1872 and are known for their prominent horns on their skulls. Theyve been included in several distinct families, misidentified as other animals, and assigned various names since their discovery, with no apparent evolutio...

Yuka Mammoth (Photo : Wikimedia Commons) Yuka is the best-preserved carcass of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). Local Siberian tusk hunters found it in 2010. They handed it over to local scientists in 2012, who conducted an initial examination of the carcass. It can be seen as a display in Moscow. The mammoth was discovered on the Oyogos Yar coast, about 30 kilometers west of the Kondratievo Rivers mouth in Siberias Laptev Sea district. Yuka is a juvenile female natural mummy that was...