A fisherman named Willy Dean caught a good sized bull shark while on the Potomac River in St. Mary's County, Md. In Florida someone spotted a 30 foot Anaconda in the Bay area. Possibly two of them. Alligators are turning up in NYC and in inland areas. As far inland as the Midwest. I read about another shark caught in the Mississippi river the other day.With cell phones and digital camera's catching actual proof of these things, I suppose we'll get a government funded study to tell us what most of us can figure out on our own. The world is changing and conditions like hurricane Earl and the Gulf oil spill are displacing critters from their natural habitat. Anyhow, I just thought I'd mention it, because I figured I'm not the only one noticing a pot load of these kind of stories..most with photos.
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i've been noticing that too....
still no better pix of the loch ness monster yet! i'd give tree fiddy for a good pix of the loch ness!
The eco-system is a mess. It tries to rebalance itself, but we always seem to take it 2 steps back with some disaster or another. Stephen Hawking seems to think maybe we might not be here for long. I am sure he's right. He also says the universe doesn't NEED god. It has done just fine on its own and other life forms are surely about to make theirselves known to us. I love reading his words. & The documentary's about him are amazing. He know's his sh**.
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Well, not all of these are completely new happenings. Years ago a bull shark was caught somewhere up in Indiana or somewhere. They do just go from salt water to fresh water, occasionally. The only freshwater attack that I know of that was actually documented, was on the upper Eastern seaboard. Kids swimming in a creek, inland a few miles. At least one of them died, but that was many years ago. A number of times when my husband and I have looked at the Willamette, I've mentioned that there could be a shark or two in there and we wouldn't know it. Lots of people swim there, locally, but we are really not that far from the ocean, so who knows?
As far as the huge snakes, I'm afraid that's all us. Florida is a perfect environment for them, and people like to buy snakes as pets, but then let them "go free" when they get too big and they can't find a home for them, or just get tired of them. I've watched enough documentaries about that sort of thing that I feel like it is a huge, human-caused problem. It would scare me to death if I lived in Florida (but the native snakes there, would do that first, probably). In some of the documentaries, the snake-catchers just cruise along the local roads watching for big snakes and pick them up along the roadsides, here and there. I would definitely be afraid to have a small animal outside for any length of time.
LOL---I, too, would give tree fiddy for a good picture of Nessie.
Stephen Hawking has not always been well-received in the scientific community, and some of his theories have been widely panned. He has an amazing mind, and has advanced scientific understanding of the universe a great deal, but not all of his theories are considered correct. (I watch way too many documentaries.)
Am I wrong...don't saltwater sharks swell up when they try to travel up fresh water rivers, and die?
Mud sharks used to hang around the mouths of creeks and small rivers that emptied into the ocean at White Rock, BC (at the US/Cdn border). But I never saw one try to go upstream.
George Carlin covered all that. Way before Stephen Hawking.
According to a show I saw during 'Shark Week,' Bull Sharks have been known to live up to five years in fresh water without any adverse effects. FIVE YEARS!
lu
My neighbor dug a lake (it's huge and for fishing) on his property which is adjacent to my backyard. Two years ago an alligator was in his front yard heading for the lake. Last week my son killed a big water mocassin in my backyard. I know we have snake lovers on here, but I'm not one of them. I will leave them alone if they stay where they belong. But I will shoot them if they come in my yard or house. Oh, I don't shoot in the house. (I've found 3 copperheads in my house and a snake skin on my ironing board---shows you how often I iron.) I have no problem doing away with a snake. It's him or me!!!
Bayou Jane, I'm with you. I tried, years ago, to get over my feelings about snakes, but to no avail. I decided this is just how it's going to be.
Finding a copperhead, or any snake for that matter, in my house would make me want to move. Instantly. I don't know how well I could rest again, having seen a snakeskin on my ironing board. Any snake I found, would certainly be a dead snake in nothing flat.
The idea of a pond so close sounds great, but I guess no matter where you are, it probably, at the very least, means water snakes. That makes me want to reconsider my dream home ideas.
Lu, you apparently have been watching some of the same shark week specials that I have.
Bull sharks have some kind of adaptation that allows them to survive in brackish or fresh water. They have a habit of swimming up river and attacking people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_shark_attacks_of_1916
As sharks go, bull sharks are very nasty.
Yikes!...Now you have me curious, so check this out...along with great whites and tiger sharks, bull sharks are considered to be in the most dangerous top three as far as human attacks go because they are aggressive.
They stay in the lower half of the US...coast to coast as long as they can swim up a river.
And they prefer shallow water too...clear and brackish fresh water as well as salt water. And they have 1 - 13 live babies at a time. They eat anything.
Who'd have guessed.
Correction, they swim up MOST of the east coast of the US.
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