Life's Great Expectations!

The smallest, lightest animal with a backbone has been described for the first time, by scientists in the US. The minuscule fish, called a stout infantfish, is only about 7mm (just over a quarter of an inch) long. It lives around Australia's Great Barrier Reef and has snatched the "world's smallest vertebrate" title from the 1cm-long dwarf goby fish. The infantfish, which is no longer than the width of a pencil, is described in the Records of the Australian Museum. The stout infantfish lives exclusively in Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the nearby Coral Sea Big females The first specimen of the tiny creature ( Schindleria brevipinguis ) was collected way back in 1979, by the Australian Museum's Jeff Leis, during fieldwork in the Lizard Island region of the Great Barrier Reef. Anytime a scientist ident...

Staging a Khoo Eight years after scaling Mount Everest, Khoo Swee Chiow still faces controversy over his adventures By Lee Sze Yong monday interview KHOO Swee Chiow knows about obsessions. After all, he is obsessed with embarking on adventures. He is obsessed with breaking records. He is obsessed with attaching superlatives to his name - and namecard. But he is no mere daydreamer. In 1998, he scaled the peak of Mount Everest. In 2002, he became the first Asian to complete Adventure Grand Slam by climbing the highest peaks on the seven continents and trekking to the North and South Poles. In 2003, he cycled from Singapore to China. In 2004, he swam across the 40km Malacca Strait in 22 hours. And on Dec 25 last year, he spent 220 hours inside a tank filled with mineral water on a field in Tampines Central, breaking a Guinness World Record. Ask him if he suffers from some obsessive compulsive need for an adrenaline rush and the 41-year-old admits that, yes, he does. 'If I go to a psyc...

THIS IS A PICTURE NASA TOOK WITH THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE.. CALLED "THE EYE OF GOD". TOO AWESOME TO DELETE. It is WORTH SHARING. This kind of event occurs once in 3000 years.