If you wanted to visit the world's largest fish tank, you'd have to go to Okinawa, Japan, home of the "Kuroshio Sea," otherwise known as the Churaumi Aquarium. picked by punthe 2 months ago

One of what may be the first-known population of vegetarian spiders. The herbivores live on acacia trees in Mexico and steal leafy snacks, such as the tree nubbin this spider holds, from their ant neighbors. picked by aFROMoshi 3 weeks ago

Scientists exploring one of the largest remaining blocks of tropical forest in Western Africa discovered significant populations of new, rare and threatened species underscoring the area’s high biological diversity and value. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

SEATTLE - A previously unknown elephant herpes virus killed the Woodland Park Zoo's youngest Asian elephant, zoo officials said Monday.

Six-year-old Hansa, who died last month, was one of 12 elephants fathered by a bull at a zoo in Missouri.

...Okay, who didn't take their Valtrex? picked by bevissimo 1 year ago

A new species of flying fox or fruit bat has been discovered on an island south of Manila. The orange-coloured bat with a distinctive white-stripped face was discovered in a protected wildlife area on Mindoro Island. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

An Indian zoologist said Monday he has found a new species of limbless lizard in a forested area in the country's east.

Looks like a snake to me. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Researchers from Kent State University and the University of Bucharest, Romania, have discovered a new primitive crab species Cycloprosopon dobrogea in eastern Romania. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

A scientist who bought a fossilised insect on the web auction site eBay for £20 has discovered that it belongs to a previously unknown species of aphid. picked by AutumnLotus 1 week ago

Iranian artist Ali Khaliqi has designed the world's largest, hand-woven carpet. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Researchers found a new species of sea anemone living in the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean and in the most unlikely location - a whale carcass. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Dave Tosh, from the School of Biological Sciences at Queens University, found the greater white-toothed shrew in Tipperary and Limerick while working with University College Cork and BirdWatch Ireland. Its natural range is in parts of Africa, France and Germany and before now the closest it has been spotted to Ireland is in the Channel Islands. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

An expedition to Brazil's Cerrado has turned up more than a dozen undiscovered species. Conservationists say the discoveries add urgency to protecting the grassland habitat which is rapidly being converted for agriculture. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

With a viewing area that measures 11 feet by 6 1/4 feet and 8.84 million pixels of resolution, the TV (which has no model number and no date for being commercialized) is regularly thronged by crowds of slack-jawed onlookers, unable to comprehend the thing. picked by punthe 8 months ago

Scientists document findings in effort to better track populations. picked by Neiako 2 years ago

Largely unexplored deep-sea coral reefs, some perhaps hundreds of thousands of years old, off the coast of the southeastern U.S. are not only larger than expected but also home to large fish populations and many newly discovered and unusual species. Results from a series of expeditions to document these habitats and their associated marine life have revealed some surprising results. picked by 2manyusernames 3 months ago

Researchers found evidence of microbreweries across Ireland, which predates the 1759 foundation of the Guinness brewery by several thousand years. picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

Because the species is considered similar to the ancient ancestors of all primates, its 55-million-year bender suggests that our own taste for alcohol might predate the known advent of brewing some 9,000 years ago. picked by AfroMosHi 1 month ago

Dutch biologist Marc van Roosmalen has discovered a new species of peccary in the basin of the Rio Aripuanã in the south-eastern Amazon region. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

The group of astronomers have now discovered a system of three super-Earths around a rather normal star, which is slightly less massive than our Sun picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

Scientists announced today the discovery of reef structures they believe doubles the size of the Southern Atlantic Ocean's largest and richest reef system, the Abrolhos Bank, off the southern coast of Brazil's Bahia state. The newly discovered area is also far more abundant in marine life than the previously known Abrolhos reef system, one of the world's most unique and important reefs. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago