An alien-like squid with "elbows" is caught on video, unknown "structures" are detected tugging at our universe, and more--2008's most read stories by National Geographic News.

Large air spaces inside of dinosaur skulls led to lighter body weights, which may have enabled their descendants to take to the skies.

Human trafficking protestors ride airport luggage belts, devilish creatures roam the streets of Germany, a white lion is born, and more in this week's best news photos.

Near Barcelona, Spain, a large solar power plant is in an unlikely location: a cemetery.

A fairy fly's golden glow, "brainbows," and a beetle's iridescent eye region illuminated winning images of Olympus's BioScapes contest for microscope photography of animals, plants, and other life-forms.

An inventor in Hong Kong uses his mobile phone to control his life-like robots.

A new population of rare Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys, including three infants, has been spotted in Vietnamese forests, an expedition team reported.

Venetians ride out the floods, Mumbai residents decry attacks, horse-betting returns to China, and more in this week's best news photos.

The white sturgeon, North America's largest freshwater fish, has bounced back in the Fraser River thanks to an unprecedented volunteer effort. Updated with video.

The quagga, a zebra subspecies that is only partly striped, has been crossbred back into existence after a hundred years of extinction, scientists say.

Using virtual reality goggles, a kitchen knife, and mannequins, scientists can now reportedly make subjects "feel" another "body" being cut, among other sensations.

A women-only taxi service in Iran's capital, Tehran, has become popular. The service does not allow male passengers and hires only female drivers.

See the "elbowed," "elephant eared" Magnapinna squid filmed by an oil company submersible--plus pictures from a 2001 Hawaii sighting.

Wildlife smugglers transporting more than a thousand pounds of reptiles—including king cobras and Burmese pythons—to Vietnam were intercepted by a Cambodian wildlife-rescue team.

At an extremely deep oil-drilling site, a remote control submersible's camera has captured an eerie surprise: an alien-like, long-armed, and—strangest of all—"elbowed" Magnapinna squid. With video.