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At an annual conference organized by the Antalya Chamber of Industrialists and Businessmen (ANS?AD), archaeologist Professor Havva ??kan I??k said stone quarries have been given permission to mine Mount Latmos and workers are trying to erase historical paintings dating back 6,000 years in order to facilitate mining.
A newly discovered 250-million-year-old fossil reptile from Brazil gives an "extraordinary" insight into life just before the dinosaurs appeared.
At the time, the world was recovering from a massive extinction that wiped out most living species.
Of the many questions that vex humanity, there is one above all others. It’s a question we’ve been asking ourselves since we realised we could ask ourselves questions. There are a lot of people who think they know the answer, even though there are almost more answers than there are people. Even so, we officially don’t know which of those many answers is the truth.
Officials were informed about the existence of a historic castle-like structure in a field in eastern Van when a local showed them photos of the structure, which may be from the Middle Ages
An ancient cemetery where dogs were buried like humans between 5,000 and 8,000 years ago is shedding light on our close relationship with man's best friend.
The remains at Lake Baikal, Siberia reveal the animals were laid to rest alongside their owners and were treated like humans in life, and death.
A heated controversy in linguistics in recent years involves a few hundred people deep in the Amazonian rainforest: the Pirahã tribe of Northern Brazil. Their idiosyncratic language has raised questions about how widely human languages share certain characteristics.
It is an impending extinction that will change the world and how people communicate: within 20 years, half of all the planet’s languages will be dead.
Experts agree that nothing can stop it happening but one academic is trying her hardest to slow it down, to help preserve what may be part of a golden ticket for our brains.
The societies we live in can have a direct influence on how dishonest people may be, according to a new study from The University of Nottingham.
The study 'Intrinsic Honesty and the Prevalence of Rule Violations across Societies' found that people from more corrupt societies were likely to be more dishonest than those from societies where rule-breaking is frowned upon.
For centuries, bearded men have contended that a furry face is nature’s insulation. In a 1854 philosophical treatise on the topic, a Mr. Thomas S. Gowing contended that a beard’s function is to protect “some of the most susceptible portions of our frame from cold.”
The bright lights of big cities may be contributing to our national sleep deficit, says new research released Tuesday.
Over eight years, Stanford neurologist Dr. Maurice Ohayon and his team interviewed 15,863 people from cities large and small about their sleep patterns. Then they used data from the Defense Department's Meteorological Satellite Program to plot the level of nighttime light the interviewees were routinely exposed to.
If your dreams of flying high above the clouds or winning the World Series have ever been interrupted by the guttural sounds of your partner's slumber, then a new anti-snore gadget could help you turn down the volume of these nasal noises and turn up the quality of your beauty sleep.
The misery of scraping ice from the car on a frozen winter morning is familiar to most motorists.
But a new invention could see an end to frost-bitten fingers and snapped credit cards forever.
Five years ago today, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggered a massive tsunami that hit the northeastern coast of Japan. It obliterated several prefectures, killing nearly 19,000 people and damaging four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
A radical new origami-inspired technology could change the fundamental elements of construction and engineering.
Called snapology, the material actuates on its own — changing shape and size over a given period of time. The dynamic nature of the material could usher in a whole new range of buildings that adapt, retract, flatten and then pop up.
Alt: Bizarre shape-shifting material invented by Harvard
Most UFO hunters report seeing brightly coloured sphere shaped orbs floating around the darkness off space, but a recent sighting may change the way we perceive alien crafts.
Related: Pensioner captures picture of a ‘Close Encounters’ style UFO hovering over his home for several minutes
Related: Creatures in the Crop Circles
The future of transportation might have two seats, over a dozen rotors and look more like a helicopter than a car. German manufacturer E-Volo's Volocopter VC200 uses a single joystick to fly and operates with an electric motor.
You do not want to go to Mars. At least, not with today’s engines powering the trip. A chemically propelled voyage would take 18 months, one way. During which time any combination of boredom, radiation poisoning, and cancer will likely kill you. Suppose you make it? Congratulations on being the first Martian to die of old age, because a return trip from the Red Planet is currently impossible without using wishful logistics like fuel harvesting.
The real-life "Death Star" that astronomers recently caught in the act of destroying a planet is continuing to disintegrate nearby orbiting objects, researchers say.
This finding could shed light on how dead stars rip apart their planetary systems — a phenomenon that could happen in Earth's solar system billions of years from now, scientists added.
People living in the Canadian province of Ontario could soon start receiving an unconditional allowance each month, with the government this week announcing that it'll begin trialling a pilot version of universal basic income in 2016.
Related: The United States Revokes Scientology’s Tax-Exempt Status
Maybe you've heard the Hyperloop mantra of "San Francisco to LA in 30 minutes?" Well, what about Bratislava to Vienna in eight? Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), one of the two LA-based startups working to realize Elon Musk's dream of 760 mph, tube-based travel, announced Thursday that it had reached a deal with the government of Slovakia to explore building a system in the central European country.
Countries—U.S., France, Netherlands—are testing ways to pave roads with solar panels. Their plans have skeptics
Solar is popping up just about everywhere, even landfills and parka pockets. So why not roads? Indeed, solar road projects are gaining interest around the world, and some promise to even charge electric cars while moving.
An ocean-going drone will be helping to spot illegal fishing in the world's largest, continuous marine reserve.
Related: 3D Robotics partners with Sony on a drone that can map the world in 3D
Related: Startup pitches anti-drone launcher as answer to rogue UAVs
A while back, we noted a report showing that the “sneak-and-peek” provision of the Patriot Act that was alleged to be used only in national security and terrorism investigations has overwhelmingly been used in narcotics cases. Now the New York Times reports that National Security Agency data will be shared with other intelligence agencies like the FBI without first applying any screens for privacy.
Google's AlphaGo artificial intelligence program has defeated a top Go player for a second time.
The five-game contest is being seen as a major test of what scientists and engineers have achieved in the sphere of AI.
Bacteria may be ancient organisms, but don't call them primitive. Despite being unicellular, they can behave collectively—sharing nutrients with neighbors, moving in concert with others and even committing suicide for the greater good of their colony. Molecules that travel from cell to cell enable such group behavior in a signaling process called quorum sensing.
Manufacturers say egg whites, meatballs made without animals could hit store shelves in 5 years
Hen-less egg whites, cow-less milk and practically pig-less meat are projected to appear in grocery stores as early as five years from now in an effort to reduce factory farming via cultured food.
A team of Japanese scientists has found a species of bacteria that eats the type of plastic found in most disposable water bottles.
The discovery, published Thursday in the journal Science, could lead to new methods to manage the more than 50 million tons of this particular type of plastic produced globally each year.
Planting trees around rivers could reduce the height of flooding in towns by up to 20%, new research suggests.
A study for the Environment Agency concludes that trees round a feeder stream can slow the rush of rainwater and save properties from flooding.
Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a pine tree.
The charred pine twigs date back 140 million years to a time when fires raged across large tracts of land.
An international team of researchers has reconstructed an ancient super eruption in southern Italy that 39,000 years ago spewed a volume of ash and debris equivalent to eight Mt Everest’s into the air near Naples.
Microscopic dust grains extracted from meteorites that landed on Earth had ancient and explosive origins, scientists have discovered.
The dust grains — also known as presolar grains, since they're older than Earth's sun — were likely spewed out by stars that blew up hundreds of millions of years before Earth's solar system formed.
Mars, don’t hold your breath … please.
That, in so many words, is the message that scientists will be projecting to the red planet next week when they launch a probe to investigate whether Mars is exhaling puffs of methane gas that could be the biological exhaust fumes of a microbial ecosystem living far beneath the surface.
Just weeks before the historic encounter of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) with Mars in October 2014, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft entered orbit around the Red Planet. To protect sensitive equipment aboard MAVEN from possible harm, some instruments were turned off during the flyby; the same was done for other Mars orbiters. But a few instruments, including MAVEN's magnetometer, remained on, conducting observations from a front-row seat during the comet's remarkably close flyby.
How a whole prehistoric subspecies came to stand in for an extremely modern type of backwardness.
Like many scientists, Evelyn Jagoda, a PhD student in Harvard’s Human Evolutionary Biology Department, has a Google alert for her chief research interest. Unlike many scientists, every time she checks it, she braces for a barrage of insults.
Scientists have pieced together an early human habitat in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and discovered that despite access to food, water, and shady shelter, the living 1.8 million years ago was far from easy.
Alt: Early human habitat, recreated for first time, shows life was no picnic
Fifty-six million years ago, just before earth's carbon dioxide levels and average temperatures soared, many species of primitive primates went extinct in North America for reasons unclear to scientists. Now, a study of fossilized molars appears to exonerate one potential culprit in the animals' demise: competition with primitive rodents for food.
New research reveals that the limbs of the earliest four-legged vertebrates, dating back more than 360 million years ago, were no more structurally diverse than the fins of their aquatic ancestors.
A change to a more challenging environment could, over time, re-ignite and grow old parts of the brain that have gone inactive, according to a study of army ants led by a Drexel biology professor.
It's well-known that lightning is an electric current—a quick, powerful burst of charge that flows within a cloud or between a cloud and the ground. But surprisingly, scientists still don't fully understand how the initial spark forms that generates such powerful lightning.
El Niño has brought some much needed rain to California in recent months, but a Los Angeles storm earlier this week may owe some credit to unnatural modifications.
For the first time since 2002, the Department of Public Works has turned to cloud seeding, using generators to shoot silver iodide into the clouds to produce more rain.
New evidence has sparked a search by the West Australian Museum for a possible shipwreck, believed to be lost off the Mid West coast of Western Australia about 300 years ago.
Records of Spanish shipwrecks combined with tree-ring records show the period 1645 to 1715 had the fewest Caribbean hurricanes since 1500, according to new University of Arizona-led research. The study is the first to use shipwrecks as a proxy for hurricane activity.
On April 2, a new series of radar scans will be performed on King Tutankhamun's tomb to search for hidden chambers that may contain an undiscovered royal burial, Egypt's antiquities ministry has announced.
Here is an interesting short video made by Alex Mott after visiting the controversial 'Bosnian Pyramid' in June 2015. In it, he addresses some of the claims made in favour of the structure being man-made.
It is one of the many mysteries of Ceres - a gigantic pyramid in among the vast craters and 'alien spots'.
Now, Nasa has revealed stunning new close up images of the three mile high mountain Ahuna Mons.
They reveal the 'pyramid' is in fact a dome with smooth, steep walls - one of which appears to glow.
One of the main predictions of the current model of the creation of structures in the universe, known at the Lambda Cold Dark Mattermodel, is that galaxies are embedded in very extended and massive halos of dark matter that are surrounded by many thousands of smaller sub-halos also made from dark matter.
University of Chicago scientists have discovered evidence in a meteorite that a rare element, curium, was present during the formation of the solar system. This finding ends a 35-year-old debate on the possible presence of curium in the early solar system, and plays a crucial role in reassessing models of stellar evolution and synthesis of elements in stars. Details of the discovery appear in the March 4 edition of Science Advances.
Scientists have discovered a novel way to make plastic from carbon dioxide and inedible plant material, such as agricultural waste and grasses. Researchers say the new technology could provide a low-carbon alternative to plastic bottles and other items currently made from petroleum.
A pair of Vietnamese fraternal twins have been confirmed to have different fathers, a local genetic association has told the BBC.
The twins had their DNA tested after their family noticed they looked different, said local reports.
By the time drug-policy lawyer Charlotte Walsh took to the stage on the final day of the recent Horizons Psychedelic Conference, we had already heard several persuasive talks on the benefits of psychedelic substances. Rick Doblin had spoken about the successful treatment of PTSD with MDMA, Draulio Barros de Araujo described his work combatting depression with ayahuasca, and Stephen Ross discussed his study administering psilocybin to cancer patients.
Legal marijuana may be doing at least one thing that a decades-long drug war couldn't: taking a bite out of Mexican drug cartels' profits.
The latest data from the U.S. Border Patrol shows that last year, marijuana seizures along the southwest border tumbled to their lowest level in at least a decade. Agents snagged roughly 1.5 million pounds of marijuana at the border, down from a peak of nearly 4 million pounds in 2009.
Legalising the sale of cannabis in specialist shops would generate £1bn a year in tax revenue and reduce the harm done to users and society, according to the most detailed plans ever drawn up for the liberalisation of UK drug laws.
One of France's earliest-known Roman taverns is still littered with drinking bowls and animal bones, even though more than 2,000 years have passed since it served patrons, a new archaeological study finds.
An excavation uncovered dozens of other artifacts, including plates and bowls, three ovens, and the base of a millstone that was likely used for grinding flour, the researchers said.
A newly discovered Anglo-Saxon settlement in England is surrounded by dry land today, but once was an island oasis amidst marshland. And at least some of its inhabitants were literate.
The long-ago island was inhabited continuously between at least A.D. 680 and A.D. 850, during the Middle Anglo-Saxon era, archaeologists from the University of Sheffield report in the April 2016 issue of Current Archaeology.
Stunning glass beads found in Danish Bronze Age burials dating to 3400 years ago turn out to have come from ancient Egypt – in fact, from the workshop that made the blue beads buried with the famous boy-king Tutankhamun. The discovery proves that there were established trade routes between the far north and Levant as early as the 13th century BCE.
A rare 2,500-year-old seal bearing the name of an "exceptional" woman has been discovered in Jerusalem, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Monday.
Found in a large ancient building in the City of David, in the Jerusalem Walls National Park, the seal dates back to the era of the First Temple, which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was constructed by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. and then destroyed 400 years later.
It is a little-known network of underground tunnels that lies hidden beneath the streets of a former mining village.
The mysterious series of hand-carved passageways and chambers hidden below the Edinburgh suburb of Gilmerton have been linked to witchcraft, smugglers, Covenanters and the Knights Templar.
Tim Whitmarsh’s brilliant new book about ancient atheism makes a compelling case that various forms of religious disbelief have been with us for the past two and a half millennia, with greater and lesser degrees of cultural prominence. Atheism has had a distinguished and varied lineage. It seems likely that doubt about religion is just as old as religion itself, although there is no way to prove what people believed or did not believe in cultures that have left us no literary evidence.
Paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman chewed raw goat meat for the sake of science, so he knows from experience that it's a challenge.
"It's a little salty, and it's very tough," the Harvard University professor said. "You put it in your mouth and you chew and you chew and you chew and you chew, and nothing happens."
Alt: The benefits of food processing: Processing food before eating likely played key role in human evolution
Researchers who have analyzed America’s eating habits say they can sum up what’s wrong with our diet in just two words: ultra-processed foods.
These foods -- a group that includes frozen pizzas, breakfast cereals and soda -- make up 58% of all calories Americans consume in a typical day. Not only that, they delivered 90% of the added sugars that Americans ate and drank, according to a study published Wednesday in the medical journal BMJ Open.
In the anguishing wait for a new kidney, tens of thousands of patients on waiting lists may never find a match because their immune systems will reject almost any transplanted organ. Now, in a large national study that experts are calling revolutionary, researchers have found a way to get them the desperately needed procedure.
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Shiley Eye Institute, with colleagues in China, have developed a new, regenerative medicine approach to remove congenital cataracts in infants, permitting remaining stem cells to regrow functional lenses.
Hybridising with dogs is unlikely to lead to dingoes changing their skull shape or losing their status as the top predator in Australian ecology, researchers say.
Their argument is based on new findings from a CT scan-based study that shows the dingo's skull is virtually unchanged when it hybridises with a dog.
Anyone who owns a dog is familiar with the "gaze"—that hypnotic, imploring stare that demands reciprocation. It can seem to hold a world of mystery and longing, or just pure bafflement at what makes humans tick.
It turns out that the look of mutual recognition between human and dog reflects thousands of years of evolution, a bond programmed into our very body chemistry.
Human communication is powered by rules for combining words to generate novel meanings. Such syntactical rules have long been assumed to be unique humans. A new study, published in Nature Communications, show that Japanese great tits combine their calls using specific rules to communicate important compound messages. These results demonstrate that syntax is not unique to humans. Instead, syntax may be a general adaptation to social and behavioural complexity in communication systems.
Individual bacterial cells have short memories. But groups of bacteria can develop a collective memory that can increase their tolerance to stress. This has been demonstrated experimentally for the first time.
Researchers from Boston College, US, have revealed the global spread of an ancient group of retroviruses that affected about 28 of 50 modern mammals' ancestors some 15 to 30 million years ago.
Retroviruses are abundant in nature and include human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV-1 and -2) and human T-cell leukemia viruses. The scientists' findings on a specific group of these viruses called ERV-Fc, to be published in the journal eLife, show that they affected a wide range of hosts, including species as diverse as carnivores, rodents, and primates.
Sixty-six million years ago, planet Earth had a shit day when a six-mile-wide asteroid smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula, triggering a series of events that killed off the dinosaurs. Later this month, a scientific expedition will drill into the heart of Chicxulub crater for the very first time, seeking to learn more about the nature of that disaster.
Climate change sealed the fate of ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles that ruled the oceans for 157 million years, suggests an analysis of fossils.
The dolphin-like animals died out some 30 million years before the mass dinosaur extinction at the end of the Cretaceous 66 million years ago.
Simmering deep below the geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone caldera is a dormant supervolcano—a powerful behemoth with the ability to blanket the western U.S. with many centimeters of ash in a matter of hours. What could spark such a powerful eruption?
Global warming will increase rainfall in some of the world's driest areas over land, with not only the wet getting wetter but the dry getting wetter as well.
New research published today in Nature Climate Change has revealed that in the Earth's dry regions, global warming will bring an overall increase in rainfall and in extreme precipitation events that could lead to flash flooding becoming a more regular event.
This image above from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean shows a collection of limestone towers known as the "Lost City," a submarine hot-spring system (like no other yet seen within the world's oceans). Alkaline hydrothermal vents of this type are suggested to be the birthplace of the first living organisms on the ancient Earth.
The iceberg that sank the Titanic is thought to be 100,000 years old, according to scientists who have been tracing the origins of the colossal lump.
The staggering discovery was uncovered after researchers crosschecked data on ocean currents and witness descriptions from 1912.
Two years after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished after taking off from Kuala Lumpur airport, investigators appear no closer to solving one of the most perplexing mysteries in aviation history.
Related: Now an alien hunter claims to have found MH370: Conspiracy theorist believes he has spotted missing plane near Cape of Good Hope ‘while looking for an old UFO’
Iowa State University engineers have developed a new flexible, stretchable and tunable "meta-skin" that uses rows of small, liquid-metal devices to cloak an object from the sharp eyes of radar.
The meta-skin takes its name from metamaterials, which are composites that have properties not found in nature and that can manipulate electromagnetic waves. By stretching and flexing the polymer meta-skin, it can be tuned to reduce the reflection of a wide range of radar frequencies.
Ask the Cambridge bioengineer, Michelle Oyen, how the cities of the future might look, and she’ll reference termite mounds, along with the swirling architecture of Antoni Gaudí, whose buildings look like they’ve grown from organic matter rather than been built by human hands. Oyen and her contemporaries are currently striving to harness nature’s smart building techniques, investigating bone, eggshell, seashells and spider silk, as alternatives to unsustainable steel and concrete.
The second experiment on how to grow crops on Mars and moon soil simulant have given a surprising outcome. As a result of what the researchers in the Netherlands learned from their first experiments, they were able to grow ten different crop species. Tomatoes, peas, rye, garden rocket, radish and garden cress were harvested.
Cosmic biology may not just be possible, but inevitable
No one has ever discovered life in space, and given the enormity of the universe and our tiny, modest place in it, it’s entirely possible no one will—either in our lifetimes or for many lifetimes to come. But never mind, because life is out there—indeed, it’s everywhere, simply because chemically and mathematically it has to be there.
If an alien megastructure indeed encircles a star known as KIC 8462852, it's 1,500 years old and no one may be home anymore.
The first and only total solar eclipse of 2016 will roll across the sky this week. Total solar eclipses — when the moon's shadow blocks the sun entirely — are spectacular events, highly anticipated by astronomers, astrophotographers and casual spectators alike.
Related: Total eclipse: Indonesia witnesses totality as Sun is blocked by the Moon
A solar eclipse will reveal itself to several million people in parts of Indonesia and on the Indian and Pacific Oceans on March 8 and 9. Astronomy buffs around the world can catch the show online.
A total solar eclipse will sweep across the vast Indonesian archipelago on Wednesday, witnessed by hordes of sky gazers and marked by parties, colourful tribal rituals and Muslim prayers.
It what could soon be called "Cloudgate," "leaked" emails appear to discuss structures in Pluto's already hazy atmosphere as clouds, based on a March 4 article in New Scientist.
The picture above shows sections of an image attached to an email sent by Southwest Research Institute scientist John Spencer, in which he noted particularly bright areas in Pluto’s atmosphere within a New Horizons image.
Scientists have long been puzzled by Mercury's very dark surface. Previously, scientists proposed that the darkness came from carbon accumulated by comet impacts. Now scientists confirm that carbon is present at Mercury's surface, but that it most likely originated deep below the surface, in the form of a now-disrupted and buried ancient graphite-rich crust, which was later brought to the surface via impacts after most of the current crust formed.
A material called Vantablack is the darkest, most blackest, most void-on-earth material ever invented. It was introduced by Surrey NanoSystems in 2014 and back then, the company said the material was capable of absorbing 99.96 percent of light.
As if that wasn’t dark enough, the company announced this week that they’ve made Vantablack even darker and by how much is unknown — because it’s so black, even spectrometers can’t measure it.
I suppose this is what you call lateral thinking.
Tire manufacturer Goodyear revealed plans this week for a spherical automobile tire design that would allow autonomous vehicles to move sideways as easily as they move forward or backward.
I’m not good at identifying types of things.
I’m in awe of people who can look at birds, any bird at all, and tell you exactly the type of bird it is. I look at dogs and all I see is a dog, and when people tell me it’s a half Charles Spaniel, half beagle, I literally nod and smile, imagining that the dog is Prince Charles, because this means nothing to me.
Researchers have developed a new way of growing realistic human tissues outside the body. Their 'person-on-a-chip' technology, called AngioChip, is a powerful platform for discovering and testing new drugs, and could eventually be used to repair or replace damaged organs.
Test-tube meat is getting closer to leaving the lab and being served on our plates.
Memphis Meats, which grows meat from animal cells, says it hopes to have its animal-free products on the market in three to four years - and has unveiled the first lab-grown meatball to the public.
Cancer cells are well-known as voracious energy consumers, but even a veteran cancer-metabolism researcher was surprised by their latest exploit: Experiments in his lab show that some cancer cells get 30-60 percent of their fuel from eating their neighbors' 'words.'
Some commercial nutrigenetics services will already test DNA and offer dietary advice. Is this the future of disease prevention?
Scientists are duking it out over whether a study on reproducibility has a reproducible conclusion. The high-profile study reported last year that many psychology findings can’t be replicated, but a separate group of researchers now claim the finding is severely flawed. Today in the journal Science, both sides of the debate are squaring off.
A series of experiments showed that sudden insight may yield more correct solutions than using gradual, methodical thinking. In other words, say the researchers, it's absolutely worth listening to your "aha!" moments.
A new study confirms the age-old conception that meditation is associated with wisdom. Surprisingly, it also concludes that somatic (physical) practices such as classical ballet might lead to increased wisdom.
In a wide-ranging and compelling new book, science journalist Jo Marchant explores whether the mind can heal the body. The question is polarizing: Conventional doctors dismiss the power of the mind as New Age hooey, while alternative medicine advocates are quick to claim miracle cures for whatever ails you. The murky middle ground between these poles is where Marchant lingers.
US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been criticized for moral flip-flopping, but new research suggests moral character doesn’t really change much, even when you want it to.
“Our studies provide new and important evidence for the stability of moral character,” says Kathryn Bollich, lead author of two recent studies exploring how evolving personality traits and competing ethical quandaries influence moral behavior.
The effects of eating peanut products as a baby to avoid the risk of allergy have been backed up by new research.
In 2015, a study claimed early exposure to peanut products could cut the risk of allergy by 80%.
A bevy of blind baby “dragons” may soon hatch in a Slovenian cave.
Biologists at Postojna Cave, a 15-mile-long (24 kilometers) cave system in southwestern Slovenia, are waiting with bated breath for the arrival of up to 55 baby olms (Proteus anguinus). These underground animals are also known as European cavesalamanders, but locals call them “human fish,” said Stanley Sessions, a biologist at Hartwick College in New York and a Fulbright scholar at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. That’s because their cave-adapted skin lacks pigment and is a fleshy pinkish-white color.
Scientists have spotted a spooky "ghostlike" octopod deep in the waters off Hawaii — but could this curious creature be an entirely new species?
The scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who spotted the "remarkable little octopod," which is a translucent white color, last weekend while collecting geological samples with a remote-operated vehicle on Necker Ridge in the Hawaiian Archipelago believe so.