Found in Peru's highland forests, the tiny new species has some unusual traits: Females lay only two eggs--each a third of the size of the mother herself.
A woman walking on water, a sparkling equinox sunrise, a penguin success story, and a Canadian seal hunter are among the players in the week's best news photos.
Post-eruption pictures of Alaska's Redoubt Volcano reveal massive mudflows and a swath of ash visible from space. And Redoubt may be just getting started, experts say.
Alaska's Redoubt Volcano, the ninth most dangerous volcano in the U.S., has so far produced five eruptions that have sent ash and smoke 9 miles (15 kilometers) into the sky.
An animal behaviorist regularly romps with lions on his private animal preserve in South Africa. "If they did kill me ... if I had the opportunity to come back after dying, I would do it all the same," he says. Video.
In a phenomenon occurring just twice a century, tens of millions of rats decimate fields and forests in northeast India and parts of Burma and Bangladesh. The cause: bamboo.
Veterinarians in Miami have successfully fitted a badly injured crocodile with metal plates and 41 Frankensteinian screws on its skull. The croc had been hit by a car in the Florida Keys. Video.
Recent evidence that Druids committed cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice—perhaps on a massive scale—add weight to ancient Roman accounts of Druidic savagery, archaeologists say.
