Papua New Guinea
Sperm whale feasting on a giant squid (rare images)
October 28, 2009They are creatures of the deep immortalised in fictional bestsellers like Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick and Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But these ultra-rare images of a colossal sperm whale feeding on a giant squid are the real thing...
7.8 earthquake struck off the Santa Cruz Islands
October 07, 2009A magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck off the Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific Ocean today, triggering a tsunami warning for several nations in the region. The quake hit at 9:03 a.m. local time at a depth of 35 kilometers (22 miles), about 260 kilometers...