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.
A tabby cat that recently gave birth has "adopted" a red panda cub into her litter. The panda, born at Amsterdam's Artis Zoo, was rejected by its mother.
Flatfishes' lopsided eye arrangement evolved gradually, a new fossil study suggests—perhaps solving "a major, major puzzle to evolutionary biologists."
