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Australia has giant spiders and giant sharks, but nothing comes close to the giant seagulls!

Carnivorous Plants Capable of Eating Rats

Yes, you read that right. Giant, freaking, carnivorous plants, large enough that they are able to trap and consume rats. Rats. Ok, last time I checked, rats are bigger than most people's hands, so really, what the scientists who found this new breed of pitcher plant in a little jungle of horrors in the Philippines should really be saying is: "hey, maybe you shouldn't stick your hand in there." Ok, at this point, I think I would rather be on the losing side of a robot uprising than the possibility of a killer plant uprising. Thank you to reader Moxie for the lead on this particular panic inducing story!

The Alaskan Blob

Well it seems the inspiration for starting the Everybody Panic! blog has been solved before I even post my first post. It looks like that 15 mile long "biological slick" off Alaska that no scientist has ever seen before (which, doesn't that just make you feel so much better?), is some sort of ocean going algae bloom. Algae? Really? That's all? It's not Gozer the Gozarian assuming a new form of The Destructor or some massive Cthulhu spawn? Ok, unless this turns out to be something more sinister, everbody stand down, there's no need to panic.