The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century put most of Asia, from India to China, into darkness on Wednesday, as millions gathered to watch this once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon. The eclipse began at about midnight Greenwich Mean Time and was f...
Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Australia was once home to a theropod dinosaur that was big, fast and terrifying, not unlike the Velociraptor featured in the movie Jurassic Park. It was an 1,100 pound meat-eating predator with three...
In Argentina, the small city of San Luis is adopting the frog as its provincial hero. Frogs have been touted by some as the antidote to a dengue fever outbreak that's gripped Argentina. There have been over 20,000 cases recorded this year, including...
Some of these mountains in northern Mozambique have never been studied by scientists until now. The British government funded Darwin Initiative has sponsored a series of expeditions to five northern Mozambique(莫桑比克) mountains. Scientists have...
One of the Australian state of New South Wales favorite ocean-living icons is Bluey, the blue groper. Their friendly nature makes them a favorite of divers. It's magical, like any type of marine species. You know, if you can scuba dive or snorkel alo...
They are considered the only wild horses left in the world. The takhi, known as Przewalski horses in the west, don't look like their domastic cousins, they are noted for their large heads, stiff zebra like meats, pop bellies, and short stocky legs, a...
Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula is known for its volcanic and seismic activity, but not since the 1960s has a new geyser appeared here. A ranger in the Kronotsky Nature Reserve was the first to see the column of boiling liquid last month. Another observ...
This new mom has six helpless kids. The babies are born with black and white markings on their naked skin that are soon covered with fur of the same pattern. At the age of four weeks, they open their eyes for the first time. In another three weeks or...
Some birds are better at hunting than others and this male clearly isn't the best. He was her mate last year as well. Could his idle nature be the reason why last year's clutch failed? The chicks should be growing exponentially, yet they are getting...
This is a patas monkey, military looking with a fine mustache. It's at home in Savannas, where its too dry for jungle trees. Monkeys have been leaving the trees for millions of years, but we are the only ape to do so. Some of what makes us special co...
With the price of gold at all-time highs, a familiar fever is once again sweeping Alaska. Everybody has their own reason why they are into it. Some people, you know, you find what you got and you try at once to find a little bit of gold. This is kind...
Conserving wildlife is a struggle all governments face, but nowhere more sole than in China, where the worlds last female rafetus turtle (斑鳖)is about to be introduced to her new home. 600 miles and 17 hours into the journey, the team arrives at t...
The same technology used to make prosthetic limbs is now being used to clone some of the world's earliest manuscripts from Mesopotamia, an area near modern-day Iraq. When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, thousands of artifacts were stolen from museums in...
April 19th marks the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, when the last residents of the Jewish Ghetto rose up and ultimately fueled a revolt against Nazi power. The Ghetto was razed following the revolt, its residents killed. Today these...
On a Minnesota farm 40 miles away, another family is further along. Their two eaglets(小鹰) have already hatched(孵化). The mother feeds her four-day-old daughter. The two-day-old male, hardly able to hold his head up, doesnt seem to be getting a...
