Snow leopards get some new neighbors, China’s ancient wolf-sized otters described for the first time, a baby whale attempts to catch a piggyback ride, why is an Australian zoo asking for help catching deadly spiders and a great white shark grabs a gull <a href="/oceans/whales-and-dolphins/baby-whale-gets-tired-tries-and-fails-to-get-piggyback-ride-from-mom" target="_blank">BABY WHALE PIGGYBACK </a><a href="/oceans/sharks/great-white-shark-luca-gulps-down-a-gull" target="_blank">GREAT WHITE SHARK GRABS GULL </a><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/enormous-otters-once-roamed-southwestern-china" target="_blank">GIANT OTTER DISCOVERY </a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2017/jan/10/snow-leopards-shamshy-atambayev-kyrgyzstan-wildlife-poaching" target="_blank">NEW CRAB NAMED AFTER HARRY POTTER </a><a href="/conservation/human-impact/climate-change-brings-rival-cats-to-the-snow-leopards-neighbourhood" target="_blank">LEOPARD SPOTTED IN SNOW LEOPARD TERRITORY </a><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/23/zoo-appeals-help-catching-deadly-spiders-milking-venom/" target="_blank">HELP CATCH DEADLY SPIDERS FOR VENOM </a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/23/geese-die-montana-toxic-mine-epa" target="_blank">GEESE KILLED BY TOXIC WATER  </a><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/red-skittles-cattle-feed-agriculture-environment-wisconsin/" target="_blank">CANDY FOR COWS </a><a href="http://www.livescience.com/57606-cicada-season.html" target="_blank">CICADA COMEBACK</a>

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