Lonesome George Not the Last of His Kind, After All?

Lonesome George Not the Last of His Kind, After All?

For decades before his death in June, Lonesome George spurned female attention.

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Lonesome George Not the Last of His Kind, After All?

For decades before his death in June, Lonesome George spurned female attention.

Animals

“Zombie” Worms Mate Inside Whale Bones

An adult female bone-eating worm. Photograph courtesy Norio Miyamoto/Naturwissenschaften.

Animals

Giant Sea Cucumber Eats With Its Anus

A giant sea cucumber in the Pacific Ocean. Photograph by Gerald and Buff Corsi, Visuals Unlimited

Mystery

Africa’s Mysterious “Fairy Circles” Explained

Zebras run across plains dotted with fairly circles in Namibia’s Namib Rand Nature Reserve. Photograph by George Steinmetz, National Geographic

Animals

Giant Mysterious Eyeball Found on Florida Beach

Animals

Turtles Urinate Via Their Mouths—A First

The Chinese soft-shelled turtle is the first animal known to pee via its mouth.

Photograph from FLPA/Alamy

Animals

New “Devil Worm” Is Deepest-Living Animal

The head of the new nematode Halicephalobus mephisto.

Image courtesy Gaetan Borgonie, University Ghent

Animals

World’s Leggiest Animal Found Near Silicon Valley

Illacme plenipes went undocumented for 84 years.

Photograph by Paul Marek.

Whales

White Killer Whale Spotted—Only One in the World?

The white whale behind another orca, likely his mother, in April. Males remain in matriarchal pods for life.

Photograph courtesy E. Lazareva, Far East Russia Orca Project.

Animals

Venus the Two-Faced Cat a Mystery

Venus's face is split evenly into two colors.

Photograph courtesy TODAY Show/NBC

Plant

Slime Has Memory But No Brain.

By leaving behind gooey deposits (left), Physarum polycephalum "remembers" where it's been.

Animals

World’s Smallest Frog Found

Dwarfed by a dime, Paedophryne amauensis inhabits New Guinean rain forests.

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