Identified as a new species only in 2005, the bulbous-headed snub fin dolphin—called the world's ugliest—had never been filmed until now, according to an Australian TV production.
Skinny as spaghetti and comfortable on a quarter, the newfound Barbados thread snake species is the world's smallest—and may be the smallest possible—biologists say.
An exterminator, searching for gold in the Australian outback, became stranded for more than four days and says he survived by eating termites and other insects.
A childlike robot and six-legged machine display the latest in human-robot interaction in London. One responds to touch with its "heart." The other robot focuses on faces.
A seaside stone that had been decorating a home owner's ornamental pond for 15 years might actually be an 80-million-year-old fossilized fish head, experts say.
The pen-tailed tree shrew's 55-million-year bender suggests that humans' taste for alcohol might predate the known advent of brewing some 9,000 years ago.
A U.S. biotech company's auction fetched more than $135,000 each from four owners eager to clone their canines. Yet opponents say the technology is flawed.
The total length of the underground calcite river is still unknown, though a recent expedition surveyed several thousand more feet of the odd formation in New Mexico Cave.
