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A video taken by a motorist in South Texas reveals that the gait, tail, rear hips and nose of an unknown creature that is becoming more common to the area probably isn’t a coyote. Previously, many biologists had assumed that the creature was a coyote with a disease called sarcoptic mange (scabies), but this animal does not move like a coyote and its long nose and gait are not consistent with the changes seen in coyotes with the disease.read more

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A new, potentially severe allergic reaction to red meat is being detected in people bitten by the Lone Star Tick. Delayed anaphylaxis–a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction– to meat is a new syndrome identified initially in the southeastern United States. Patients may wake up in the middle of the night with hives or anaphylaxis usually three to six hours after having eaten red meat for dinner. Until recently, the link between red meat ingestion and anaphylaxis had remained elusive. But now ,researchers Susan Wolver and Diane Sun have discovered a compound found in mammalian tissues that causes dilatation of capillaries that is released during allergic reactions.
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British psychic Sally Morgan has won a $200,000 settlement plus her legal costs from the Daily Mail after the paper accused her of using an earpiece to scam a Dublin audience into believing she received messages from the dead. The suit alleged that some audience members had heard staffers backstage saying things that she then repeated onstage by use of a concealed earpiece. It was found, however, that she was not using an earpiece and the conversation overheard backstage was not among her staffers and did not relate to what she was saying onstage. The verdict did not state that there was proof that she was talking with the dead, but that she did not use the trickery alleged.
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