Whales are thinner - study

Japan, under fire overseas for whaling it justifies as research, has released its findings - whales are losing blubber because ocean resources are growing scarce.

But critics said the recent study, which involved the slaughter of thousands of whales, is little more than window-dressing for Japan's pursuit of commercial whaling.

African 'unicorn' captured on camera

The okapi; an African animal so elusive that it was once believed to be a mythical unicorn; has been photographed in the wild for the first time; the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) said on Thursday.; Camera traps set by the ZSL and the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) captured pictures of the okapi in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Lost Mozart score found in France

lrich Leisinger, head of research at the International Mozarteum Foundation in Austria, said the single sheet of music was "really important".

Computers figure out what words mean


Cognition Technologies began licensing the map on Tuesday to software creators interested in having programs "understand" words based on tenses and sentence context - in much the same way as the human brain does.

Ike helps uncover mystery vessel on Ala. coast

When the waves from Hurricane Ike receded, they left behind a mystery — a ragged shipwreck that archeologists say could be a two-masted Civil War schooner that ran aground in 1862 or another ship from some 70 years later. The wreck, about six miles from Fort Morgan, had already been partially uncovered when Hurricane Camille cleared away sand in 1969.