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In 2013, the blobfish was voted World’s Ugliest Animalby theUgly Animal Preservation Society in an effort to get some ...
Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.
The blobfish, once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," has been named "Fish of the Year" by a New Zealand environmental group, the Mountain to Sea Conservation Trust, in an effort to raise awareness ...
One bottom-dwelling fish has been made a fool of in the name of conservation and internet humor--until now. The blobfish ...
It is an underdog victory for the blobfish, which rose to prominence as the mascot for the Ugly Animal ... world's ugliest creatures. Coming in second place was the orange roughy, a deep-sea ...
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What endears a 300-year-old well in the heart of Bombay’s business district to all citizens? A commemorative book of essays offers ranging reasons and personal ...
The United Kingdom (UK) has imposed sanctions on four Sri Lankans allegedly responsible for serious human rights abuses and ...
The way the robot moves was inspired by batfishes, an extraordinarily ugly-looking type of ... that live in the deep sea, the kind of creatures the robot might discover is both exciting and ...
It used to be a thing of beauty and wonder but these days hydroelectric schemes conjure up images of ugly ... landscape, deep potholes in the public roads, large lumps of concrete in species-rich, ...
The army top brass was divided politically. Officers who would have been apolitical “gentlemen” under normal circumstances turned into political animals. The Fonseka -Jayasuriya split was aggravated ...