Science and Nature

** using citations from: The Daily Mail article by Fiona MacRaeThe Daily Telegraph reporter It always bothered me not only the Hollywoodian view of Cleopatra and all Egyptian Civilization but mostly the popular modern western world view of both Classical and Ptolemaic Egypt. History and Science will always make justice. Egyptologist Sally Ann Ashton believes Read more

    A strange ugly sea monster was cast ashore in Guinea. The partially decomposed monster has 4 paws, a tail and long fur The scientists who examined the creature said that they had already seen such animals before, but they have no clue to their definition. Read more

By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC News The "deepest ever" living fish have been discovered, scientists believe. A UK-Japan team found the 17-strong shoal at depths of 7.7km (4.8 miles) in the Japan Trench in the Pacific – and captured the deep sea animals on film. The scientists have been using remote-operated landers designed to Read more

  I came across today with these 2006 pictures by German wildlife photographer Norbert Rosing (National Geographic) that travels regularly to Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada to photograph Polar Bears. During that specific trip, Mr. Rosing photographed and published (as The World of the Polar Bear) a collection of images that follows a family of Read more

Last week news sites and blogs were flooded with pictures from Montauk Beach in NYC showing a dead animal instantly nicknamed as the Montauk Monster. Showing the features of a pig (wild boar, wild pig, etc are not discarded) all these web places are feeding our imagination with X-Files like hypothesis, typical of the Internet Read more

29/05/2008 – 15h14 – Atualizado em 29/05/2008 – 15h57 Coordenador da Funai diz ter divulgado imagens para proteger índigenas. Da BBC Gleison Miranda/Funai Índios isolados reagiram com flechadas à presença de avião (Foto: Gleison Miranda/Funai) Fotografias de um grupo isolado de índios na Amazônia foram divulgadas pela primeira vez por um funcionário da Funai , Read more

29/04/2008 – 14h19 – Atualizado em 29/04/2008 – 14h21 Espécime encontrado tem 15 a 20 centímetros de comprimento. Pela falta de membros, o animal mais parece uma cobra. Da Reuters Cientistas afirmam ter encontrado um lagarto sem patas, uma tartaruga e um pica-pau anão, entre 14 espécies que se acredita serem novidades para a ciência Read more

  24/04/2008 – 06h00 Mudança climática está favorecendo multiplicação do inseto em matas do Canadá. Ao matar árvores, animal faz com que árvores liberem gases-estufa na atmosfera. Reinaldo José Lopes Do G1, em São Paulo Um inseto do tamanho de um grão de arroz poderá ser o responsável por transformar as florestas da América do Read more

  This gigantic Anaconda (Sucuri) – a 6m and 200 Kg animal in this case – was captured today in the Southern Brazilian state of Paraná (PR). Citizens of the marvelous city of Arroio Guaçu (literally Guaçu Creek, some 500Km from the state Capital Curitiba) were frightened by the spot of this huge animal inside Read more

Volunteers use net to save bruin who jumped railing 80 feet above ground Updated: 4:28 a.m. ET Oct 1, 2007     TRUCKEE, Calif. – A 250-pound bear stranded under a bridge near Lake Tahoe was saved by an army of rescuers, a tranquilizer dart and a nylon net bought at an Army surplus store. Read more