Salamander

About 280 million years ago, a large creature built somewhat like a salamander but with frightful fangs prowled the swamps and lakes of what is now Namibia, ambushing prey as a top predator in a chilly ecosystem l

Thanks to the World Wide Web, we have been lucky enough to view some of the strangest, rarest animals that inhabit the planet.

Researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and London's Natural History Museum have identified new species of giant salamander using DNA from museum specimens. The species that is probably the largest of the three has now been given a new name: South China giant salamander

Mexico's axolotl salamander can almost magically heal itself, holding the power to regrow its heart and brain. But there is one feat it may not pull off: survive dire threats to the last wild place it calls home.

You may have seen several stories about cops being called in when people find scary creepy-crawlies such as snakes or giant lizards in or around their houses. However, one such call by a family in Colorado, US, has many people laughing out loud. No, it wasn't the call itself but what the distress call turned out to be about that has people amused.

The ancient Greeks spoke of a mythological society composed entirely of warrior women. The medieval traveler John Mandeville wrote of a place whose female rulers "never would suffer man to dwell amongst them." "Paradise Island," home of Wonder Woman, was a feminist utopia where no one with a Y chromosome was allowed.

About 280 million years ago, a large creature built somewhat like a salamander but with frightful fangs prowled the swamps and lakes of what is now Namibia, ambushing prey as a top predator in a chilly ecosystem l

Thanks to the World Wide Web, we have been lucky enough to view some of the strangest, rarest animals that inhabit the planet.

Researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and London's Natural History Museum have identified new species of giant salamander using DNA from museum specimens. The species that is probably the largest of the three has now been given a new name: South China giant salamander

Mexico's axolotl salamander can almost magically heal itself, holding the power to regrow its heart and brain. But there is one feat it may not pull off: survive dire threats to the last wild place it calls home.

You may have seen several stories about cops being called in when people find scary creepy-crawlies such as snakes or giant lizards in or around their houses. However, one such call by a family in Colorado, US, has many people laughing out loud. No, it wasn't the call itself but what the distress call turned out to be about that has people amused.

The ancient Greeks spoke of a mythological society composed entirely of warrior women. The medieval traveler John Mandeville wrote of a place whose female rulers "never would suffer man to dwell amongst them." "Paradise Island," home of Wonder Woman, was a feminist utopia where no one with a Y chromosome was allowed.