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Meet Iceberg, the World's First Albino Killer Whale
Offbeat  (tags: words first white killer whale, sightings, russian scientists, discovery, iceberg )

Simone
- 31 days ago - theaustralian.com.au
A TEAM of Russian scientists say they will embark on a quest next week to observe the only all-white, adult killer whale ever spotted - a majestic and elusive bull they have named Iceberg. The researchers from the universities of Moscow and St Petersb
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Video: Divers Find Large, Unexplained Object at Bottom of Baltic Sea
Offbeat  (tags: discovery, interesting, off-beat, unusual )

Jae
- 118 days ago - news.yahoo.com
"This thing turned up. My first reaction was to tell the guys that we have a UFO here on the bottom," said Peter Lindberg, the leader of the amateur treasure hunters. Sonar readings show that the mysterious object is about 60 meters across, or, about t
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Fish Disguised as Copycat Octopus
Offbeat  (tags: discovery, animals, odd, interesting )

Marty
- 139 days ago - bbc.co.uk
First there was the octopus that mimicked fish; now researchers say a fish is copying the octopus. The mimic octopus is known to impersonate lionfish and sea snakes by adapting their movement and colour.
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1,100-Year-Old Mayan Ruins Found in North Georgia
Offbeat  (tags: Mayans, news, interesting, Discovery )

Barbara
- 155 days ago - sott.net
Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the mountains of North Georgia believed to be at least 1,100 years old. The ruins are what remains of a city built by Mayans fleeing wars, volcanic eruptions, droughts & famine.
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Fossils of World's Oldest Tiger Found in China .
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, wildlife, tigers, fossils, discovery, China )

Cher
- 165 days ago - dailypioneer.com
Scientists have discovered what they believe is the oldest ever extinct species of tiger which lived in what is now northwestern China more than two million years ago.
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British Shipwreck With a Fortune in Silver on Board Discovered in Atlantic
Offbeat  (tags: discovery, shipwreck, treasure, ship, merchant steamship, underwater archaeology, SS Gairsoppa )

Pia
- 241 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The wreck of a British cargo ship containing silver worth £155 million, sunk by a German U-boat during the Second World War, has been discovered in Atlantic. The SS Gairsoppa set sail from India in December 1940 carrying 240 tonnes of silver, iron and tea
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Ancient Animal Eyes Could See in the Dark
Offbeat  (tags: discovery, interesting, fossils, ancient animals, eyes, visions, darkness )

Simone
- 331 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Ancient animals could see in the dark, according to newly-discovered 515-million-year-old "squashed eyes" that would have been more powerful than any known eye fossil of a similar age.
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Dingoes Didn't Run Tasmanian Tigers Out of Australia
Offbeat  (tags: dingoes, discovery, tasmanian tigers, survival )

Simone
- 387 days ago - livescience.com
The extinct thylacine, more commonly known as the "Tasmanian tiger" or "marsupial wolf," hunted more like a cat than a dog, meaning the tiger moniker may be the more appropriate nickname. The thylacine had the striped coat of a
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Human Studies Might Benefit Zoo Animals
Offbeat  (tags: GoodNews, humans, education, health, humans, news, goodnews, study, research, scientists, interesting, humans, health, discovery, AnimalWelfare, animals, animalwelfare, goodnews, GoodNews, humans, habitat, wildanimals, health, humans, animals, interesting )

Brittany
- 415 days ago - dispatch.com
Research on third shift workers is helping zoo's better care for their nocternal primate's.
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Research First: Birds Have Empathy âEUR" An Evolutionary Trait
Offbeat  (tags: animals, research, discovery, science, animals, interesting )

Bryan
- 442 days ago - examiner.com
"We found that adult female birds possess at least one of the essential underpinning attributes of 'empathy'; the ability to be affected by, and share, the emotional state of another."
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Walking Cactus Fossil Is An Arthropod
Offbeat  (tags: animals, GoodNews, ancient, research, science, discovery, animals, bizarre, interesting, unusual )

Bryan
- 453 days ago - examiner.com
Strangest animal you will ever see. Just click on the link to photo.
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Sunken Ship Commanded By Real-Life 'Moby-Dick' Captain Discovered
Offbeat  (tags: discovery, interesting )

Jae
- 468 days ago - news.yahoo.com
If you're familiar with Herman Melville's classic, "Moby-Dick," you know that the title character -- an enormous white whale -- destroyed a whaling ship commanded by Captain Ahab. That set the obsessive Ahab off on his fabled quest to wreak revenge on ...
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HOW MUCH DO ANIMALS REALLY KNOW?
Offbeat  (tags: research, science, interesting, society, news, education, animals, animalwelfare, environment, GoodNews, suffering, humans, society, discovery, research, study, scientists, wildlife, humans, interesting, society, news )

Brittany
- 492 days ago - animalintelligence.org
Scientists are seeing evidence of higher mental abilities in a wider range of animals.
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New Species Discovered in 2010
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, new species, discovery, protection, wildlife, photos )

Cher
- 518 days ago - guardian.co.uk
From invisible squids to bald parrots to deep-sea fish with teeth on their tongues, here is the pick of this year's newly discovered animals
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