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Upstaged spectacularly by a young Beluga whale that can sort of speak human, an Asian elephant named Koshik can also imitate human speech, but in Korean, using his trunk.Captive-born in 1990 and transferred to South Korea's Everland Zoo three years later, Koshik lived with two female Asian elephants for a couple of years before being kept completely alone for the following seven years...
If Hell's a glittery rainbow party of terror, you'll find this guy having post-drinks in the pub at 10am.This is Eunice aphroditois , otherwise known as a bobbit worm.
Seriously. Look at this guy. It doesn't get any better than that.Berlin Zoo has announced the birth of its first rusty-spotted cat kittens since it opened 168 years ago.
This week, researchers have announced the discovery of a handful of new species in Peru, including a night monkey, common shrew opossum and porcupine, and the extra great news is that they're all storybook levels of adorable.In September 2011, ecologist Gerardo Ceballos from the Instituto de Ecología at the National Autonomous University of Mexico was part of a team of researchers who conducted a biological inventory of the species living in the Tabaconas Namballe National Sanctuary, which is located on the Atlantic slope of the Peruvian Andes, near the Peru-Ecuador border...
"Seriously, it doesn't matter how many times you ask me. I'm never going to remember where he said he was going. I don't even know why you're still here.''"I just don’t believe you.”"Have you looked in his house yet?...
Because I'll never grow tired of seeing incredible footage of sea creatures, here are a few of the best ones I've seen lately.First up, a video by a group called Coral Morphologic, which is an art-science project led by James Cook University-educated marine biologist Colin Foord, and American musician Jared McKay...
Meet Cercopithecus lomamiensis , a newly discovered species of African monkey found in central Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Together with the 'honk barking' Highland mangabeys ( Lophocebus kipunji ) of Tanzania, C...
"Hey you guys are having a party? Where's my invite? JK, JK it's cool, I don't have a letter box anyway. Where should I stash my beers? Why isn't there any music playing?
Palaeontologists have taken a closer look at the fossilised remains of a rare, 57-million-year-old mammal to discover that this dogged digger was more closely related to the modern-day pangolin, or 'scaly anteater', than we thought.The creature is Ernanodon antelios , an extinct placental species of mammal from Asia that grew to around the size of a badger, with powerful limbs and large, specialised claws for scratch-digging its meals and shelter out of the dry earth...
This wonderful photograph, which was one of the ten highly commended entrants in the 2012 New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography, captures an extremely special event.
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