Picture of the day - February 13, 2008
A terrestrial subadult Eastern newt or red eft ( Notophthalmus viridescens ). Salamanders of the family Salamandridae with aquatic adult stages are called newts . Some newts,... Picture of the day - February 12, 2008
A photochrom print of the front of Neuschwanstein Castle , Bavaria , Germany taken as few as ten years after the completion of the castle's construction. The palace was built by... Picture of the day - February 11, 2008
A Humpback Whale breaching in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary . The purpose of breaching is unknown. It may be a form of communication, a method of stunning fish prey,... Picture of the day - February 10, 2008
The mushroom cloud caused by the detonation of the " Fat Man " bomb during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan in 1945, rising approximately 18 kilometres (11 mi) above the... Picture of the day - February 9, 2008
Pancratium zeylanicum is a bulbous perennial herb . It grows in India and on the islands of the Indian Ocean where it is commonly known as "rain flower." Photo credit:... Picture of the day - February 8, 2008
Please note I have absolutely no political affiliation whatsoever with any picture. United States 2008 Presidential candidate John Edwards campaigning in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania... Picture of the day - February 7, 2008
An iceberg floats in Baffin Bay , off the coast of Cape York , Greenland . The hole in the iceberg was caused by erosion by waves , wind and melting. Photo credit: Mila Zinkova Picture of the day - February 6, 2008
A Two-lined Gum Treehopper ( Eurymeloides bicincta ), approx 10 mm (0.4 in) in length, on a eucalyptus branch, having its secretions consumed by a meat ant . This is one of at least... Picture of the day - February 5, 2008
A dromedary or one-humped camel ( Camelus dromedarius ) in the Australian Outback . Estimated populations of Australian feral camels are in the hundreds of thousands, and this is now... Picture of the day - February 4, 2008
Rosie the Riveter was a name applied to thousands of women who replaced men in the factories on the United States home front during World War II . Here, a metal lathe operator machines... Picture of the day - February 3, 2008
Prisoners interned by the Nazis in Ebensee concentration camp, a subcamp of Mauthausen-Gusen in Ebensee , Austria , are liberated by the United States Army . The prisoners are... Picture of the day - February 2, 2008
A scene from W. S. Gilbert 's 1870 musical farce The Princess , a parody of Tennyson 's epic poem The Princess: A Medley , which was a tale of a prince cross-dressing in order to... Picture of the day - February 1st, 2008
American abolitionist , editor , orator , author , statesman and reformer Frederick Douglass , shown here in 1879. Born a slave , Douglass was one of the most prominent figures in... Picture of the day - January 31, 2008
In mathematics , the Sieve of Eratosthenes is a simple, ancient algorithm for finding all prime numbers up to a specified integer. It is the predecessor to the modern Sieve of Atkin... Picture of the day - January 30, 2008
The Senegal Wattled Plover ( Vanellus senegallus ) is a large lapwing , a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae . It is a resident breeder in most of Sub-Saharan... Picture of the day - January 29, 2008
A portrait of Lillian Gish from 1921. Gish was one of the first female movie stars , called "The First Lady of the Silent Screen", starting in 1912 and continuing to appear in films... Picture of the day - January 28, 2008
A Gold dust day gecko ( Phelsuma laticauda laticauda ) licking nectar from a bird of paradise flower in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii . Native to Madagascar and the Comoro Islands , this... Picture of the day - January 27, 2008
A motocross competitor riding a Yamaha four-stroke engine bike, doing a "mono" at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit . Motocross is a form of motorcycle sport or all-terrain... Picture of the day - January 26, 2008
Off the coast of Juneau, Alaska , a group of 15 Humpback Whales works in tandem to catch herring using the bubble net fishing technique, in which they exhale through their blowholes... Picture of the day January 25, 2008
Dr. Javier Solana , the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Secretary-General of both the Council of the European Union (EU) and the Western European...