A boulder-sized meteor slammed into the moon in March, causing an explosion so bright anyone looking up at the right moment would have spotted it, NASA said.

NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office is reporting the discovery of the brightest impact seen on the Moon in the eight years the monitoring program has run, the National Geographic reports

via NASA: Meteor slams into Moon, causes explosion visible to naked eye on Earth | Space, Military and Medicine | News.com.au.

Twenty-year-old Bryan Zuniga tells Tampa Bay’s Fox 13 News (http://bit.ly/11qSzGn) Friday that he was swimming and trying to hide when a 6- to 8-foot gator lunged at him.

Zuniga says he was nearly knocked unconscious when the gator’s mouth hit his head. He fought back with both legs and the arm not caught between the alligator’s jaws.

via Bryan Zuniga, Attacked By Gator While Running From Cops, Describes Fight For Life.

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Celebrating Jane Henson (1934-2013).

And while it’s not clear what that mammalian host is, the two most obvious choices are pigs or humans, said Dr. Richard Webby, head of the World Health Organization’s influenza collaborating centre at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

“I think that’s what’s concerning about this …This thing doesn’t any longer look like a poultry virus,” Webby, a swine flu expert, said in an interview.

“It really looks to me like it’s adapted in a mammalian host somewhere.”

via H7N9 Flu Virus May Have Adapted To Mammals.