<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>World's Largest Shrew Discovered : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>World's Largest Shrew Discovered : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[World's Largest Shrew Discovered]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49019/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The previously unknown, squirrel-size species is the world's largest known elephant shrew and the only new species from the group to be discovered in more than a century.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New giant clam species discovered]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/74444/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A new species of giant clam has been discovered in the Red Sea.<br/><br/>Fossils suggest that, about 125,000 years ago, the species Tridacna costata accounted for more than 80% of the area's giant clams.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[World's Largest Fish Tank Holds Four Whale Sharks]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/65883/1/</link><description><![CDATA[If you wanted to visit the world's largest fish tank, you'd have to go to Okinawa, Japan, home of the &quot;Kuroshio Sea,&quot; otherwise known as the Churaumi Aquarium.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds of new marine species discovered: Australian scientists]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/79004/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of new marine species and previously uncharted undersea mountains and canyons have been discovered in the depths of the Southern Ocean, Australian scientists said Wednesday.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only Known Species of a Vegetarian Spider Recently Discovered]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/72038/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New, rare and threatened species discovered in Ghana]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43598/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s high biological diversity and value.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoo: Unknown Herpes Virus Kills Elephant]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26006/1/</link><description><![CDATA[SEATTLE - A previously unknown elephant herpes virus killed the Woodland Park Zoo's youngest Asian elephant, zoo officials said Monday.<br/><br/>Six-year-old Hansa, who died last month, was one of 12 elephants fathered by a bull at a zoo in Missouri.<br/><br/>...Okay, who didn't take their Valtrex?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[eBay insect fossil is new species]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/73076/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A scientist who bought a fossilised insect on the web auction site eBay for &#163;20 has discovered that it belongs to a previously unknown species of aphid.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New species of sea anemone discovered]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20971/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New bat species discovered in Philippines]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35891/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New limbless lizard species discovered]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21728/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An Indian zoologist said Monday he has found a new species of limbless lizard in a forested area in the country's east.<br/><br/>Looks like a snake to me.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New 150 Million-year-old Crab Species Discovered]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/38976/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Researchers from Kent State University and the University of Bucharest, Romania, have discovered a new primitive crab species Cycloprosopon dobrogea in eastern Romania.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran weaves world's largest carpet]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29334/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Iranian artist Ali Khaliqi has designed the world's largest, hand-woven carpet.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Good Or Ill Ireland Gains Another Mammal Species]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/59881/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[World's largest prehistoric brewery unearthed in Ireland]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31584/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Researchers found evidence of microbreweries across Ireland, which predates the 1759 foundation of the Guinness brewery by several thousand years.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[World's Largest HDTV Debuts At CES 2008]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/46329/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[20 shark, ray species discovered in Indonesia]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/11825/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Scientists document findings in effort to better track populations.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient deep-sea coral reefs off southeastern US serve as underwater 'islands' in the Gulf stream]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/63113/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photos of legless lizard and other newly discovered species in Brazil's Cerrado]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/60081/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pen-tailed tree shrew is chronic boozer]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/70640/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[20 New Species from The Lost World]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38479/1/</link><description><![CDATA[New animals species are constantly discovered, even if they&#8217;re in a smaller number than those lost forever. After rounding upthe rarest animals in the world and the most endangered animals in the world, here is a list of the new species recently discovered in the world, including pictures and information on their habitat.]]></description></item></channel></rss>