This Anteater has a very long tongue.
Everyone's watching a movie together in the living room.
The passengers are boarding the aircraft -- up the airstairs and a small step onto the plane.
This roast beef looks delicious. May I have three slices please.
I am a fast learner. I like taking on new responsibilities and am quick to acquire new skills.
Hey! What's your sign? I am an Aquarius. Let's look at our daily horoscopes! Mine says: "Focus on your long-term goals. You may be distracted."
African hybrid bees still retain less desirable behavioral traits for domestic beekeeping such as absconding in response to stress.
His favorite toy is a plastic bucket. He has taken swimmingly to a large pool. And on Friday, he had his first taste of solid food. Mitik, the New York Aquarium's new baby walrus, is adapting well.
What tidings will the Year of the Snake bring? The New Year's season is implacably festive, but given the destructive power of the snake sign, many worry that this year will bite.
How many people are coming over for breakfast? Do we have enough eggs?
No, it doesn’t look like a giant white ape. But the battery-powered rover has all the toughness of an abominable snowman, surveying undetected hazards at research sites in Greenland and Antarctica.
The blue crab is so named because of its sapphire-tinted claws. These bottom-dwelling omnivores have a prickly disposition and are quick to use their sharp front pincers.
High sticking is against the rules in hockey. Number 10 got a penalty for this move!
Komodos are dangerous predators with sharp serrated teeth. They eat almost all of a carcass, consuming flesh, skin and even bones.
For my vacation I want to go diving in Hawaii.
The Allosaurus, one of the largest dinosaurs, was a large bipedal predator that paleontologists believe grew to over 12 meters (39 feet) long and 5 meters (16.5 feet) tall.
Following months at sea, Rockhopper penguins gather in large colonies to breed, often returning to the same nest each year. They usually seek out their previous year's mate as well.
As they endure their daily arduous grind, the much-flogged beast of burden is paid 250 Indian rupees per day in Panchkula, Haryana.
The newly discovered microbe known as strain GFAJ-1 grows when fed arsenic and deprived of phosphate, a crucial ingredient of life.
An unnamed Belarus hunter was outfoxed by his quarry when the fox he had wounded ended up shooting him by pulling the trigger on the man's gun.
Chimps agree: a bird in the hand Is worth two in the bush. When those possessing items of medium-high value, such as carrots, were offered high-value items, like grapes, they kept the lesser food.
The Proboscis Monkey is named for its large protruding nose. When the animal becomes agitated its nose swells with blood, amplifying their warning calls.
Wake up! Good morning, it's 7:00 a.m. and time for me to get ready for school.
Want to go to the movies with me? There are a few movies I want to go see.
Marie Curie is probably the most famous woman scientist who has ever lived. Born Maria Sklodowska in Poland in 1867, she is famous for her work on radioactivity, and was twice a winner of the Nobel Prize.
During World War I, Marie Curie, with help from her daughter Irene, worked to develop the use of X-radioactivity, including the mobile units which came to be known as 'Little Curies’, used to treat wounded soldiers.
Marie found her interest drawn to pitchblende, a mineral whose radioactivity, superior to that of pure uranium, could be explained only by the presence of small quantities of an unknown substance of very high activity.
Marie Curie is probably the most famous woman scientist who has ever lived. Born Maria Sklodowska in Poland in 1867, she is famous for her work on radioactivity, and was twice a winner of the Nobel Prize.
The US government has issued a travel advisory warning its citizens to be vigilant while traveling in Europe because of the threat of an al-Qaeda commando-style attack.
The health benefits of humor start as soon as you anticipate the pleasure of a good laugh. New research shows that laughter reduces stress hormones and boosts immunity, effects that kick in even as you look forward to it.
On our farm we have a large barn with stalls for animals inside, and a hayloft at the top.
I entered into a contest for a trip to South America. Whether I get chosen or not is the luck of the draw.
That movie was a laugh a minute. You should have seen all the crazy animal tricks!
Look at Andrey! He's going to jump off the diving board!
Does your loved one curse a blue streak? They may know something you don't—swearing is a response to pain and can help to relieve it, according to the U.K.'s Keele University.
While it comes with many caveats, a new study suggests that fast-paced shows like "SpongeBob SquarePants" make it harder for young children to engross themselves in later tasks.
Our office does not prescribe what we wear to work. Pants, dresses, and skirts are fine, just nothing too short.
Many chess players are lifers. They know nothing else and carry on playing forever. But Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1 player, is adamant he will not accept gentle decline or the indignity of a plummeting rating.
A Japanese police department appointed a chihuahua to its disaster squad, where it will serve alongside retrievers and German shepherds.
His favorite toy is a plastic bucket. He has taken swimmingly to a large pool. And on Friday, he had his first taste of solid food. Mitik, the New York Aquarium's new baby walrus, is adapting well.
Once in a while everyone has a bad hair day.Some of us have worse hair days than others.I'm having the worst!
Yum! These pancakes make me feel like I'm back home in my mom's kitchen!
Despite its size, the Black Bear will regularly ascend to the treetops to eat.
The orangutan and hound dog carry on like long lost friends.
Oh how these two carry on!
Army ants send out raiding parties that decimate everything in their path. At night they set up temporary bivouacs.
The "visual futurist" Syd Mead has helped design some of Hollywood's most iconic film worlds, using the amoral nature of technology to fashion neat and horrible fantasies.
I have always been fascinated by the pinwheel. Just looking at it spin in the wind makes me happy. They are really inexpensive to craft, and would spice up any room or party space.
The eyes of most animals cannot cope with ultraviolet light because it carries enough energy to damage vision. However, living on Arctic frozen wastes that reflect around 90% of the UV light, reindeer have adapted to see it.
The giant isopod is found in deep-sea benthic environments: from the gloomy sublittoral zone to the pitch darkness of the bathypelagic zone at a depth of 2,140 m (7,020 ft)!
Poisonous alkaloids in blue dart frogs' skin are absorbed from ants they eat in the wild. In captivity, the frogs eat mainly crickets and fruit flies and actually lose their toxicity.
Many parents are familiar with the trick of sneaking vegetables and other healthful stuff into their kids’ food. Turns out White House chefs were using similar tricks to whip up grub for noted junk food lover Bill Clinton.
You see here the results of 150 years of work to produce a structurally correct and sound, docile in temperament, fertile in breeding and above all the ultimate beef machine.
Black mambas are fast, lethally venomous and, when threatened, highly aggressive. Stories of their deadliness abound, and they have been aggrandized in African myth.
With the help of the wind and swinging its head, the Komodo's long yellow deeply-forked tongue can discern carrion up to 6 miles (9.5 km) away.
The eyes of most animals cannot cope with ultraviolet light because it carries enough energy to damage vision. However, living on Arctic frozen wastes that reflect around 90% of the UV light, reindeer have adapted to see it.
"First Kiss" shows 20 strangers who meet for the first time and then make out—on camera. Adorably awkward and surprisingly steamy, it's pretty charming. It's also a clothing advertisement.
Under extreme heat conditions, the body's organs begin to shut down. The brain, too, is affected by reduced blood flow. That's why people in the throes of heat illness begin to make poor, often life-threatening decisions.
Before the massive blowout of BP's Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, tests showed that the slurry Halliburton pumped down into the well could be unstable.
Billed as a cruise ship by North Korean officials, the squalid vessel Mangyongbong set sail on its inaugural voyage along the impoverished country's east coast.
The Obamas' dog, Bo, was unsuccessful in his first home. Plans for him to be a companion for an older female dog went awry because he irritated her with attempts to suckle.
The toothpick fish native to the Amazon River is famous for a rather lurid anecdote in which one is said to have 'jumped' into a man's urethra while he urinated.
The world "Her" shows us is one where technology has receded. A new generation of consumers have accepted that technology isn’t an end in itself, that it’s the real world we’re supposed to be connecting to.
The world "Her" shows us is one where technology has receded. A new generation of consumers have accepted that technology isn’t an end in itself, that it’s the real world we’re supposed to be connecting to.
The world "Her" shows us is one where technology has receded. A new generation of consumers have accepted that technology isn’t an end in itself, that it’s the real world we’re supposed to be connecting to.
Yeah. We're going to get through this. Ukraine will rise up and never back down.
Is it weird that it lifted my spirits to know he was angry and not scared? It makes me feel like we really can fight them.
How am I? I don't even know. Everything is so crazy right now and I'm just so stressed out.