Apart from the Blob at the Dawn of Time….

Fossil hunters in Canada have found an apparent transitional form between terrestrial mammals and aquatic pinnipeds, astronomers in England have found the smallest exoplanet to date, and amateur astronomers have completed the most thorough survey of young stars in the Orion Nebula (but so far, no
Green Animal Women).

Also….

The German engineering firm Festo displays its robo-penguins, Kepler sends back its first images, and National Geographic presents footage of the baby mammoth discovered in 2007.

Oh, here’s an image of the Blob.