Profile
Photos
Comments
15 Most Popular News Stories
Top 15 as of April 13, 2008
 | A new dam in Laos might spell doom for the Mekong giant catfish, the world's largest freshwater fish, experts say. |
 | The quahog clam, plucked from the waters of northern Iceland, beats the official oldest record-holder—another clam—by nearly two hundred years, experts say. |
 | Giant sea spiders, spine-crushing daggertooth fish, and pink "sea pigs" are just a sampling of exotic creatures hauled up by scientists during a recent Antarctic expedition. |
 | The tiny moon Phobos and its enormous impact crater star in several colorful new images taken by NASA's HiRISE camera. |
 | The Indonesian amphibian may have evolved to respire through its skin as an adaptation to its cold, fast-moving stream habitat, a new study says. |
 | A girl born with two faces in India is a form of conjoined twin. Villagers are revering her as a reincarnation of a Hindu goddess. Remember the eight legged girl that was born there? |
 | The canyon's Upper Granite Gorge formed 55 million years ago, a new study says, suggesting that the Grand Canyon we see today may be the result of "ancestral" canyons that slowly grew together. |
 | A stash of ancient coins from the Middle East unearthed last week near Stockholm is the largest early Viking hoard ever discovered in Sweden, archaeologists say. |
 | Colonies of short-snouted seahorses have been doing swimmingly in London's newly restored river, conservationists announced today. |
 | A new technique that looks at chemical clues in seawater suggests that the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was a mere 2.5 to 3.7 miles (4 to 6 kilometers) across. |
 | Scientists have unearthed a pristinely preserved statue of Queen Tiye—the favorite wife of pharaoh Amenhotep III—in ancient Egypt's largest funerary complex. |
 | It has a face like a plate and eyes like a human's. And it may signal a whole new family of fishes, one expert suggests. |
 | Claude, an Asiatic black bear living in a Japanese zoo, has attracted attention for twirling sticks. The habit could be an act of boredom or play, experts say. |
 | An eager public got its first glimpse of Flocke, the four-month-old polar bear that was rejected by her mother in January in Germany's Nürnberg Zoo. |
 | See a striking image of blood on ice, the Golden Gate gone dark, a "young" supernova, a robotic ship on the edge of space, and more. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/top15.html |
