A pink albino elephant is already learning to stay out of the sun, says Mike Chase, of conservation charity Elephants Without Borders (BBC).
“This mouth is kind of nasty. I always use the analogy of a pencil sharpener.”
Jean-Bernard Caron, associate curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum, discusses new research on an ancient sea beastie (Toronto Star).
“It was like a low-stakes X Prize for music…”
Wired presents the first annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition in pictures.
“It carried out all tasks … without any parts of it making any mistakes.”
Iran’s recently launched satellite has carried out its mission, says an expert known only as Ebrahimi. What that mission was is still a mystery (Boston Globe).