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blickwinkel / Alamy Playing dead might help prey animals stay alive because the tactic leaves predators vulnerable to having their attention diverted elsewhere. Nigel R. Franks at the University of Bristol, UK, and his colleagues were running a study on how the beetle-like larvae of flying antlions ( Euroleon nostras) use grains of sand to build pitfall traps to catch food. They noticed that when they dropped the 12-millimetre-long larvae onto a microbalance to weigh them, the insects would freeze. Advertisement Fascinated, Franks and his colleagues observed the behaviour repeatedly, noting t...

'Beyond the Headlines: Faking Death' will be airing on the channel after the Lifetime television movie 'Death Saved My Life', which stars Meagan Good and Chiké Okonkwo in the lead roles. Just as the title suggests, the movie is about a woman who escapes her abusive husband by faking her own death. On the surface, it might look like she has it all. But her marriage is rotting because of a controlling man who is also physically and psychologically abusive.  An FBI agent gathers up crime scene tape while moving the news media further away from a field outside Detroit where agents are searchi...

Shooting these bodies on the ground. now, anybody who was playing dead, anybody who perhaps was hiding hoping that this horror was going to end, well he went up to each those bodies and at pointblank range executed every single one of them. it was absolutely horrendous. he then walks outside the mosque. there's a woman standing on the pavement. he shoots her from a distance. he walks up to her, she is pleading help me, help me, and he shoots her in the head. he then gets in his car. he's talking, he's laughing, and he's firing outside the wind screen of his car. he's firing outside the passeng...

Attacked her. she said then, quote, he dragged, threw me out of the room by may hair. i gave up and got in bed with the kids. he came in and dragged me out of bed, then hit me in the side of the head. court documents also showing haskell violated a restraining order from last year that his wife has filed against him by showing up at one of the children's school. she filed a divorce a few months later on valentine's day. now fast forward to wednesday this week. that's when investigators say the gunman forced his way into a home outside houston and demanded to know exactly where his ex-wife was....

Shooter. >> whether you are a 7-year-old child or a 70-year-old grandmother or grandfather, there are things that you can do that can increase your chances of surviving. >> reporter: should you hide in place or make a run for it? according to eric greiton, a former navy s.e.a.l. and trainer, flee if possible. if evacuation is not possible. hide. if you are hiding behind a cardboard box. you might be hidden. this doesn't provide cover. it will not stop a bullet. get behind something like this, this can stop a bullet. what if you are trapped in plain sight of the shooter, should you attack or pl...