An Unprecedented Event

Authorities say a dead hiker whose body was recovered this week was likely killed by a cougar, marking the first fatal attack by a wild cougar in Oregon and the second in the Pacific Northwest this year. [More]

But it does happen. And entering their habitats unprepared can be fatally presumptuous.

School-destroying fires are rare, too, but that doesn't mean they don't need sprinklers and alarms.

[Via Michael G]