A North Atlantic right whale has been found dead off the U.S. coast, the first right whale carcass to be reported this summer and the second this year.

The whale was spotted off Martha's Vineyard, a Massachusetts Island south of Cape Cod, on Monday, according to Jennie Lyons, spokesperson for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

Boaters spotted the whale again on Tuesday and the U.S. Coast Guard provided a vessel to bring a small team of NOAA scientists to the carcass.

"They applied a solar-powered satellite tag to monitor the location of the animal," she said. "They also took a tissue sample, which may help us learn more about this whale."

The cause of death isn't known. Because of the degree of decomposition, a necropsy will not be performed, and the whale will not be towed to land.

A man was killed and two others were injured after a polar bear attacked the trio of hunters, officials said Tuesday.

Solomon Malliki, the mayor of Naujaat, Nunavut, located in northern Canada, said the polar bear was shot and killed after attacking the hunters, according to Global News. The group was found in a common hunting spot on Lyon inlet.

"One of the hunters was deceased and the two others had minor injuries," the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement. "The initial investigation has revealed that the hunters were victims of a polar bear attack."

The hunters set out on Aug. 21 to hunt for narwhal and caribou before they were expected to return home on Thursday. Police were alerted on Sunday after the group did not come home. A search team and efforts by the Joint Rescue Coordination Center launched a search for the trio.

A crocodile who killed an elderly man in the Hellshire Pond area of Portmore, St Catherine, Jamaica on Sunday, is still on the loose.

The police have confirmed that 67-year-old Wilford Edmondson was the victim of a deadly crocodile attack on Sunday morning.

Reports are that about 9:15 am, Edmondson was among a group of friends fishing when the crocodile attacked.

The reptile took the senior citizen into the mangrove and inflicted wounds to his head.

"The Marine Unit of the police searched for a while and recovered a part of the body, we don't have any information on whether NEPA has captured the crocodile as yet," a representative of the Constabulary Communications Unit (CCU) told Loop Jamaica reporter Claude Mills.

Punggol Secondary School principal Benedict Keh urged students and staff today to remain vigilant and alert to their surroundings, after a school administrative employee was attacked by a wild boar outside the school yesterday.

The school staff was injured after a boar attacked her and fled into the rubbish collection point of a nearby executive condominium. The animal was left stranded at the rubbish collection point until officers from the Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES) arrived and sedated the boar before moving it elsewhere.

The incident occurred yesterday evening, along 51 Edgefield Plains, according to the Singapore Civil Defense Force.

This latest attack comes after increased sightings of wild boars near residential estates have been reported in recent months.

In a scene reminiscent of the Old Testament, residents of Amginsky District in eastern Russia's Sakha Republic were subjected to a bizarre phenomenon on Tuesday, as thousands of bugs rained from the sky.

The bugs are aquatic insects from the Corixidae family. They are up to 15mm in length and are currently in a migration season. The local Ministry of Nature Protection said in a statement that samples of the insects have been collected and sent to a lab for testing.

While examining the invasive python population in Florida, researchers stumbled across the unexpected: a kind of hybrid super snake.

A small number of the invasive pythons were found to be a crossbreed between two separate species, the Burmese and Indian pythons, and what's more is that this hybrid snake has the potential to thrive in new environments, according to a new study conducted by scientists with the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

"We found that out of 400 Burmese pythons investigated, 13 had mitochondrial genetic signatures from the Indian python, a separate species," Margaret Hunter, a research geneticist at USGS who led the study, told ABC News.

Three brothers out for a morning dive in Wellington made an unexpected find when they came across a monster 4.2m long giant squid.

Daniel, Jack and Matthew Aplin were driving along on a track near Red Rocks on the city's south coast when they came across the massive beached cephalod.

The brothers said they had come across sharks while on their diving trips but had never seen a squid of that size.

Jack Aplin said he and his brothers got a tape measure out to find out the size of the squid after they came back from diving.

Unsure who to notify of their unlikely find, the trio eventually decided to contact NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) who arranged to have the squid collected.

A young boy who is fatally wounded is in a precarious state at Dr. Hagar Hospital in Burao following a hyena attack that left him helpless.

The incident is one out of four people who were mauled or attacked by a rogue hyena in Ainabo district over a period of a couple of months leaving a victim dead and area residents gripped with fear.

The Togdeer regional governor Mr. Ahmed Mohamed Hashi made clarifications as to the exact number of victims as he spoke to us last night through the phone.

He acknowledged the fact that a toddler was completely mauled to death two months ago, at a time that an adult was seriously wounded. He further explained that the recuperating boy Khadar and an adult were injured over the week during the Eid festivities.

Looking back over the last 40 years, it's hard to understand how we could have been so gullible. We believed that fat, and more specifically saturated fat (found primarily in animal foods), was thought to increase cholesterol and cause heart disease. Instead, we should switch to 'heart healthy' vegetable oils, like cottonseed, corn, safflower and soy oils. But recent evidence suggests this was a Faustian bargain. The industrially processed seed oils were much, much worse. It was all a terrible mistake that began with Crisco.

Cotton plantations for fabric were cultivated in the United States as early as 1736. Prior to this, it was largely an ornamental plant. At first, most cotton was home-spun into garments, but the success of the crop meant that some could be exported to England. From a modest 600 pounds of cotton in 1784, it grew to over 200,000 by 1790. The invention of the cotton-gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 led to a staggering 40,000,000 pounds of cotton production.

But cotton is actually two crops - the fiber and the seed. For every 100 pounds of fiber, there was 162 pounds of cotton seeds which were largely useless. Only 5% of this seed was required for planting. Some could be used for livestock feed but there was still a mountain of garbage. What could be done with this garbage? Mostly it was left to rot or simply dumped illegally into rivers. It was toxic waste.

Meanwhile, in the 1820's and 1830's increased demand for oil used in cooking and lighting from a rising population and decreased supply of whale oil meant that prices rose steeply. Enterprising entrepreneurs tried to crush the worthless cotton seeds to extract the oil, but it was not until the 1850s that the technology matured to the point that commercial production could commence. But in 1859, something happened that would transform the modern world. Colonel Drake struck oil in Pennsylvania in 1859 introducing a massive supply of fossil fuels to the modern world. Before long, the demand for cottonseed oil for lighting had completely evaporated and cottonseeds went back to being classified as toxic waste.

With lots of cottonseed oil, but no demand, it was added illicitly to animal fats and lards. There was no evidence that this was, in any way safe for human consumption. We don't eat our cotton T-shirts after all. Similarly, cottonseed oil, being light in flavor and slightly yellow was blended with olive oil to reduce costs. This led to Italy completely banning the adulterated American olive oil in 1883. The Proctor & Gamble company used cottonseed oil for the manufacture of candles and soap, but soon discovered that they could use a chemical process to partially hydrogenate cottonseed oil into a solid fat that resembled lard. This process produced what are now called 'Trans' fats, making this product extremely versatile in the kitchen, even if nobody actually knew whether we should be shoving this former toxic waste into our mouths.

A 24-year-old woman survived what could have been a deadly encounter with an alligator that tried dragging her underwater as she swam in a Florida lake, authorities said.

Felicitie Gillette was swimming in Lake Hernando about 1 a.m. Wednesday when an alligator, estimated to be between 5 and 6 feet, grabbed her left arm, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation (FWC) Commission said.

Gillette, who authorities said is homeless, wrestled with the gator until she freed herself from its grip and made it to land, where she called 911.

"It came up out of nowhere and attacked," Gillette reportedly said in the call. "I'm freaking out."