Scientists have made what they believe to be the first sighting of an adult white orca, or killer whale.
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This undated handout photo provided by Nature shows a female, left, and male, right, fleas from the Middle Jurassic. (AP Photo/D. Huang, Nature)
In the Jurassic era, even the flea was a beast, compared to its minuscule modern descendants. These pesky bloodsuckers were nearly an inch long.
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No creature, living or dead has ever come close to matching the power and strength of the Tyrannosaurus rex's bone breaking bite, according to new research published in the Biology Letters.
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This undated graphic illustration released by University of Otago on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 shows a giant penguin called a Kairuku. (AP Photo/University of Otago)
It was a slender bird, with long wings and a spear-like bill to catch swift ocean prey. And scientists say the first glimpse of the extinct giant penguin species was worth the 26 million-year wait.
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Dutch scientist Mark Post displays samples of lab-grown meat at the University of Maastricht.
The quest to grow meat in a lab rather than on an animal is due to reach its climax this fall, with the first-ever culture-dish hamburger served to a celebrity taster after a $330,000 development effort.
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A snow leopard (Panthera uncia) visits its 'relic' site at 4,200 m in Phudongphu, Wangchuck Centennial Park, Bhutan. This is a spot where it repeatedly marks its territory.
The elusive, endangered snow leopard is apparently thriving in a park in Bhutan, as seen in camera trap images released on Tuesday by the government of Bhutan and World Wildlife Fund.
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In this November 14, 2009 photo provided by the University of Florida, University of Florida researchers hold a 162-pound Burmese python captured in Everglades National Park, Fla. Therese Walters, left, Alex Wolf and Michael R. Rochford, right, are holding the 15-foot snake shortly after the python ate a six-foot American alligator. (AP Photo/ University of Florida, Michael R. Rochford)
A burgeoning population of huge pythons - many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big - appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats and other mammals in the Everglades, a study says.
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Sumatran elephants take a bath on a river in Tesso Nilo national park, Riau Province, Indonesia (EPA)
The Sumatran elephant could be extinct in the wild within three decades unless immediate steps are taken to slow the breakneck pace of deforestation, environmentalists warned Tuesday.
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The embryonic skeleton of Massospondylus, a prosauropod dinosaur, is seen at what is believed to be the oldest dinosaur nesting site ever discovered at an excavation site in South Africa. (D. Scott/CBC News)
A Canadian-led team of international researchers has unearthed the 190-million-year-old nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus -- predating previously known nesting grounds by 100 million years -- at an excavation site in South Africa.
Thought to be extinct, the Miller's grizzled langur has been rediscovered in eastern Borneo. (Eric Fell/AP)
Miller's grizzled langur was thought to be extinct, but scientists in Borneo capture images of creature using camera traps
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