Copito de Nieve, aka Snowflake, was euthanized Monday at the Barcelona zoo. He was the world’s only known albino gorilla, father of 22, and even appeared as album art.

An expectant British couple (He’s a zookeeper, she’s an MTV VJ) plan to hand their newborn baby over to a pen full of gorillas.
Look, I love gorillas. The Congo at the Bronx Zoo is one of my favorite places on earth. I’m even a member of the Gorilla Foundation, which you should join. But even [...]

If you can manage to peel your eyes off the net and brave the cold air outside for a little while, there’s a free light show tonight in the eastern sky- the annual Leonid meteor shower.
We get this spectacular display thanks to comet Temple-Tuttle, which swings through our part of the solar system every 33 [...]

Findings published today in the journal Science suggest that baboons keep track of complex rules governing relationships, ordering their social group into particular cliques and ranks. We’ll leave it to you to come up with a joke about the cool clique in your high school being a bunch of monkeys.
Scientific American has a story about [...]

Guardian science editor Tim Radford lists his all-time top-ten favorite science scams.
A good list, but I would certainly have included Erich von Daniken’s continued assertions that ancient wonders (including the pyramids, Nazca lines, and Stonehenge) were built by alien visitors. Von Daniken’s a racist fraud, yet not only do people still buy his “ancient astronaut” [...]