Groups from around northern England and southern Scotland can bid for funding to help the creatures.

Researchers will sleep on their ship to avoid giant crabs that can lift heavy weights, split open coconuts, and may have played a role in Earhart's demise.

Large waves from the post-tropical cyclone battered homes in Southern California, and also brought flooding to parts of Las Vegas.

The plant is said to smell like "rotting meat" and is is native to swamps and other wetlands in the Pacific Northwest.