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.
The twin barn swallows don't show physical features associated with the genetic abnormality, leaving experts unsure how the young birds came to be literally attached at the hip.
Disemboweled and decorated with scarlet paint and metal eye plates, the centuries-old man was found with slingshots, a figurine of himself, and other artifacts. A National Geographic News exclusive.
An Australian veterinarian recently helped save an endangered grey nurse shark by sticking his arm down the shark's throat and dislodging a steel hook.
The ghastly predators, which suck up earthworms like spaghetti, may have traveled to the United Kingdom as stowaways in plants from the Caucasus region.
"Excuse me, you have a koala stuck in the grille of your car," an Australian driver heard recently. Sure enough, "Lucky" had been carried for miles—but emerged unscathed.
The "singing" sands of Dunhuang are no longer music to the ears of city residents, who face disappearing rivers, buried farms, dust-choked homes, and other ills.
