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A surprising discovery has come into light wherein volunteers surveying turtle nests in Australia have spotted a baby green sea turtle that wasn't actually green.

Coolum and North Shore Coast Care volunteers were counting the empty turtle shells on Castaways Beach for making an estimation of how many green sea turtles, also called Pacific sea turtles, had hatched, making it to the ocean.

The workers were hopeful that the nest will hatch on Friday, but on their arrival, they discovered a tiny albino hatchling on its back.

While speaking to ABC News Australia, volunteer group president Linda Warneminde said that none of them have ever faced or seen anything like that earlier, due to which, all of them were a bit taken aback.

The biggest study ever performed on canid howling found that wolf species have unique howling repertoires, functioning like dialects.

A team of researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, India and Spain ran over 2,000 distinct recorded howls from 13 canid species and subspecies via a software algorithm, boiling them down to 21 howl types on the basis of pitch and other characteristics. The canid family consists of wolves, jackals, and domestic dogs.

They discovered that distinct wolf species use the howl types in ways, specific to them. For example, timber wolves use a preponderance of low and flat howls in contrast of red wolves that uses higher vocals.

A day will come when the world would probably come to know about what some astrophysicists have been nervously foreseeing for months. There are speculations that the existence of gravitational wave has been confirmed by a pair of extremely sensitive laser detectors. The waves were first predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein in the general theory of relativity.

UN Chief Ban Ki-moon has urged the substitution of female genital mutilation (FGM) with new and safer rites of passage, following the disclosure that of the number of females who have to go through this brutality is much more than earlier estimated by the organization. The appeal was made by the U.N. Secretary-General at the U.N. headquarters in New York on the occasion of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation on February 6, 2016.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared on Monday that its researchers have discovered new bacteria, called Borrelia mayonii, which cause Lyme disease in humans. CDC worked with the Mayo Clinic and health officials from Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota to come to the findings. The findings expand the understanding of Lyme disease.

Once again, Hugh Jackman has got treated for skin cancer on his nose. On Monday, the Wolverine star used Instagram for sharing a bandaged post-op photo of him.

The 47-year-old star wrote in the caption, “An example of what happens when you don't wear sunscreen. Basal Cell. The mildest form of cancer but serious, nonetheless. PLEASE USE SUNSCREEN and get regular check-ups”. PEOPLE came to know from Jackman's rep that the procedure was a success.

Jackman's rep said that the star had a basal cell removed on Monday morning, and that the margins were clear and he is alright.

This isn’t the first time that the actor has used social media to caution against skin cancer. The most recent post has marked his third post-op picture in three years, and fourth procedure on the star’s nose.