BANGKOK, Thailand - Eighty-four spoon-billed sandpipers have been discovered in a coastal stretch of Myanmar, offering hope for saving the endangered birds, a conservation group said Thursday. picked by tchengrox 2 years ago

Imagine a place awash with more hydrocarbons than a Texan oilman can dream of and where no one has staked a single claim -- all that energy is just going begging. The problem: this massive reserve is at least 1.2 billion kilometers (750 million miles) away from Earth, on a tiny inhospitable world where on a warm day it's minus 179 degrees Celsius (minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit). picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A Bensalem woman has been walking around in the snow with a bucket of bagels and goat feed trying to locate her lost pet Buckwheat. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

One of the beauties of Antarctica, and one of its problems, is that nothing goes away. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

A woman finds a pit bull in the bottom of a trash bin, bloody and hungry after being stabbed in the back. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Widely Reported New Zealand Study Bases Its Findings On Only 14 Cases. picked by dOntEAtpOOp 2 years ago

Every autumn and winter, hunters from this craggy Japanese fishing village corral thousands of dolphins into a tiny, isolated cove and kill them for meat and fertilizer, turning the water red with their blood. picked by doggylives 2 years ago

"I'm going to throw a big party," Manuel Uribe told AFP by telephone. "I'm getting out of my house and going for a walk" in Monterrey, where he lives in northern Mexico. picked by deepchill 2 years ago

A new report by French scientists in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences finds that king penguins could be wiped out over the coming decades due to global warming. picked by tchengrox 2 years ago

PETA compares dog breeders and the American Kennel Club to the KKK. picked by mahler87 2 years ago

...after surviving 4 hours of -30F windchill picked by nerdybird 2 years ago

Note to self; Do not suggest Vegas plime convention in 2021 picked by Hoosker 2 years ago

A mythical and ghostly creature has appeared in the wilds of the Scottish Highlands. A rare white stag, from the red deer species, is believed to be among just a tiny handful living in Britain, according to a conservation group. White stags are seen as a magical and powerful force in many mythologies and the John Muir Trust is now keeping the stag's location secret for fear of poachers. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A new species of duck-billed dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is helping scientists fill in gaps in the fossil record of the Age of Dinosaurs. The creature, dubbed Velafrons coahuilensis, was a massive plant-eater belonging to a larger group of duck-billed dinosaurs called hadrosaurs. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Few modern animals are as deserving of the title “living fossil” as the lowly horseshoe crab. Seemingly unchanged since before the Age of Dinosaurs, these venerable sea creatures can now claim a history that reaches back almost half-a billion years. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Two western lowland gorillas in Congo's Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park embrace before mating face-to-face, as seen in photos released today. Lowland gorillas had never before been seen mating face-to-face, and no wild gorilla had ever been photographed using this behavior. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Unbelievable what some people can think of inventing... picked by kamaloo 2 years ago

Ah, the brassiere. Giving shape and support to the lovely female form, since the 3rd century. picked by Jerry520 2 years ago

Newborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Called "Rho Oph" by astronomers, it's one of the closest star-forming regions to our own solar system. Located near the constellations Scorpius and Ophiuchus, the nebula is about 407 light years away from Earth. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

DARPA is attempting to grow a neurological network on a piece of silicon

*Not nearly as much fun as the perennial dessert "brain-on-a-stick" picked by xenity7 2 years ago

A study looks at the physiological aspects of racism in the brain. picked by xenity7 2 years ago

Astronomers have glimpsed what may be the farthest galaxy we've ever seen, providing a picture of a baby galaxy born soon after the beginning of the universe. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

I saw this documentary on NOVA a few weeks ago... it's about four family members living in remote Turkey who walk on their hands and feet, more like monkeys than humans. It's really fascinating - just please don't be mean in your comments :) picked by robyn1234 2 years ago

Come explore familiar and unexpected views of the microscopic world with these colorized images from electron microscopes at the University of Hawaii. Theme pick is of the black ant. picked by MissWinkle 2 years ago

"Darwin Day is an international celebration of science and humanity held on or around February 12, the day that Charles Darwin was born on in 1809. Specifically, it celebrates the discoveries and life of Charles Darwin -- the man who first described biological evolution via natural selection with scientific rigor. More generally, Darwin Day expresses gratitude for the enormous benefits that ... read full post picked by Rowangrey 2 years ago