According to Sheriff Gary Parsons of the Lee County Sheriff's Office, a family dog mauled an 8-day-old baby at their home Wednesday.

He told News Channel 11 the baby girl passed away at UT Medical Center.

Sheriff Parsons said the call came in around 11:40 a.m. that a family pet had attacked a child. Within a matter of hours, the child was initially taken to Lonesome Pine Hospital, then Holston Valley Medical Center and then to UT Medical Center in Knoxville.

Parson said the baby girl had extensive injuries to the upper part of her body.

A wild boar interrupted prayers when it burst into the main hall of a mosque and attacked a man on Tuesday night, local media reported.

The man suffered lacerations in the attack in Sungai Buloh near Kuala Lumpur, the New Straits Times said Wednesday.

"It took us more than 30 minutes before the animal finally ran out of the mosque," a witness was quoted as saying.

The animal had also reportedly chased children outside the mosque before it was shot dead by a resident. Police were later informed of the incident.

Muslims make up 60 percent of the population of Malaysia. Pigs are viewed as unclean by Muslims and both breeding them and consuming their meat is haram or forbidden.

A 77-year-old woman received stitches and treatments for rabies after a wild otter viciously attacked her while she was kayaking down a Florida river.

Sue Spector and her husband, Marty, were kayaking down Braden River early Sunday morning with a group of 10 people when they spotted an otter. Spector told FOX13 the animal suddenly jumped on her and began clawing at her.

"It was very pristine and very nice and I heard someone make a comment that, 'Oh, there's an otter!'" Spector told FOX13. "And then all of a sudden he jumped on the kayak and two seconds later he jumped on me."

A group of boisterous sea lions have come under investigation following a number of complaints from a group of Cologne residents. Their noisy night-time antics are the root of the problem.

California sea lions Astrid, Amelie, Oz, Lina and Mia are being probed by the district government in the German city after locals lodged a formal complaint about the animals' nocturnal activities. The Cologne newspaper Express reported that one neighbor claimed that they'd been woken multiple times throughout the night by the loud barks of the sea lions.

While on a deer hunt with an American client, South Island guide David Musgrave came across a rare silvery oarfish that had been washed ashore at the southern end of Masons Bay on Stewart Island. The specimen measured 4.3 metres (14ft) in length with a depth of 37.5cm (15 inches). The fish had faded to a drab steel grey and displayed black markings along each side of the front section of its body. David reported his find to the Department of Conservation at Stewart Island as well as the National Museum.

Here is a very good photograph of a silvery oarfish known as the King of Herrings.

The silvery oarfish (Regalecus Glesne) is a rare open ocean species belonging to the family Regalecidae. The lack of teeth indicates that the species probably feeds on plankton. Specimens are usually found washed ashore on exposed beaches in a dead or dying condition. The species is known to reach a length of 5.5 metres (17.9 feet).

Thousands of sheep have been wiped out in the snow storms which have hit Cumbria as farmers are left counting the tragic cost.

While rising temperatures have seen a thaw set in across much of the county, farmers on isolated communities are still desperately trying to feed and rescue buried livestock from deep drifts.

Cumbria was among the counties worst hit after the so-called 'Beast from the East' met Storm Emma, causing blizzards and drifting snow that paralysed road networks and shut off farms.

While many dairy farmers have been forced to throw away thousands of litres of milk after snow drifts prevented lorries from accessing farms to collect it, livestock farmers are braced for a spiralling bill for large-scale sheep losses following the recent snowstorms.

Hundreds of livestock are feared dead as the effect of Storm Emma on farms starts to become clear in north-west England.

Defra is facing calls from industry leaders and local representatives to release emergency funding to subsidise the cost of fallen stock disposal in Cumbria.

But the department told the NFU no government money is available to support collection costs.

MP Rory Stewart, who represents the Penrith and The Border constituency, described conditions as "some the worst in living memory" and said the case for Defra support was clear.

Susan Crockford: Polar bears are flourishing, making them phony icons, and false idols, for global warming alarmists
One powerful polar bear fact is slowly rising above the message of looming catastrophe repeated endlessly by the media: More than 15,000 polar bears have not disappeared since 2005. Although the extent of the summer sea ice after 2006 dropped abruptly to levels not expected until 2050, the predicted 67-per-cent decline in polar bear numbers simply didn't happen. Rather, global polar bear numbers have been stable or slightly improved. The polar bear's resilience should have meant the end of its use as a cherished icon of global warming doom, but it didn't. The alarmism is not going away without a struggle.

Part of this struggle involves a scientific clash about transparency in polar bear science. My close examination of recent research has revealed that serious inconsistencies exist within the polar bear literature and between that literature and public statements made by some researchers. For example, Canadian polar bear biologist Ian Stirling learned in the 1970s that spring sea ice in the southern Beaufort Sea periodically gets so thick that seals depart, depriving local polar bears of their prey and causing their numbers to plummet. But that fact, documented in more than a dozen scientific papers, is not discussed today as part of polar bear ecology. In these days of politicized science, neither Stirling nor his colleagues mention in public the devastating effects of thick spring ice in the Beaufort Sea; instead, they imply in recent papers that the starving bears they witnessed are victims of reduced summer sea ice, which they argued depleted the bears' prey. There are also strong indications that thick spring-ice conditions happened again in 2014-16, with the impacts on polar bears being similarly portrayed as effects of global warming.

Wolves have recently been spotted close to farms and even in villages in Lääne County. The animals are driven closer to human settlements by hunger, as the African swine fever has significantly reduced the number of wild boar. On Saturday, wolves attacked a dog in the village of Pürksi.

ERR's "Aktuaalne kaamera" newscast reported on Monday evening that the hunting licenses granted by the state to shoot four wolves in Lääne County's Padise area weren't enough according to Hugo Peterson, who is coordinating the hunt for the animals.

While only four licenses were granted for Padise, at the same time there were 16 more licensed kills in Lääne and Rapla County. There are still too many wolves in the area, and they are apparently getting bolder.

Almost one-fifth of Europe's wood beetles are at risk of extinction due to a widespread decline in ancient trees, according to a new report which suggests their demise could have devastating knock-on effects for other species.

The study says 18% of saproxylic beetles - which depend on dead and decaying wood for some of their lifecycle - now exist on a conservation plane between "vulnerable" and "critically endangered".

Another 13% of the insects are considered "near threatened" and their disappearance could have a disastrous impact on biodiversity and ecosystems, according to the new red list released by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).