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Bigfoot, investigation, news, police, Sasquatch, weird - February 05, 2016

Sheriff Department Searching for Bigfoot - But It's not What You Think

It's not every day you run across a news report about law enforcement officials conducting a search for Bigfoot or Sasquatch. However, that is exactly what Fox 35 News has reported the Sheriff's department of Marion County, Florida doing. Of a sort. The department is actually searching for a cutout of the elusive beast. The nine-foot tall silhouette was stolen from the yard of a residence in the Lake Tropicana area. For more information concerning the theft, check out the Fox 35 Orlando page.

Free, Because of the Brave

Here at Squatch Watch Gear we deeply love the United States. We firmly believe that it is the best country in the entire world. And we are acutely aware that this weekend of memorial is the sole reason we have the freedoms we have and can state the claim of "The Best in the World". This Memorial Day weekend unofficially marks the beginning of summer and is a fun time for many Americans, but for those whose loved ones have paid the ultimate sacrifice in protecting our freedoms it can be one of sorrow. Our thoughts and prayers are with those families this weekend that...

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fish, news, outdoors, science, weird - May 22, 2015

Warm-Blooded Fish Found

Forget everything you ever learned in Biology class about all fish being cold-blooded. Last week researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have discovered a fish living deep in the Pacific Ocean that is truly warm-blooded. Unlike other fish, NOAA determined that the opah (Lampris guttatus), or "moonfish", actually generates heat as it swims and then distributes the heat throughout their bodies through special blood vessels. The discovery was made after researchers found special "counter-current heat exchangers" in the fish's gills, which minimizes heat loss at the chilly depths the opah is known to swim to. This discovery...

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