Aug 5th, 2008 · Gorilla experts with the Wildlife Conservation Society say they've made a spectacular find in the forests of the Republic of Congo: 125,000 previously undiscovered western lowland gorillas. The animals are critically endangered.
Jun 16th, 2008 · Twenty years ago, author and literature professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina was looking for an undiscovered classic for her African-American-fiction class. What she found was Ann Petry's The Street, and she's been teaching it ever since.
Jun 22nd, 2007 · RC2, a suburban Chicago-based toy company, voluntarily began recalling some of the Thomas the Tank Engine wooden railway toys because the Chinese factory that makes them used lead paints. Parents are outraged that the problem went undiscovered for so long. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says it is one of several problems tied to the booming increase of manufactured products coming into the U.S. from China.
May 2nd, 2007 · James Morrison's Undiscovered made him a star in his native U.K. last summer, and the disc's release here portends similarly big things: Mixing the smoky soul of Terence Trent D'Arby with the catchy crooning of James Blunt, the 22-year-old is nothing if not commercially viable.
Apr 12th, 2006 · A previously undiscovered African catfish has a rare but important ability: When it can't find food in the water, it slithers onto land to eat crickets. By some accounts, the out-of-water hunting method used by the fish helps explain why fish first crawled out of the sea millions of years ago.
Jan 29th, 2006 · Montreal's newly famous music scene is abuzz with rock 'n' roll energy in two languages: French and English. There are hot, undiscovered bands aplenty. But is there really a "Montreal sound?"
Oct 5th, 2005 · Larry Appelbaum of the Library of Congress recordings division talks about previously undiscovered tapes of a 1957 Carnegie Hall performance of the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane.
Aug 26th, 2005 · Fairy tales, struggling actors and stranded scientists want your movie dollars this weekend -- but are any of them worth the cash? Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan looks at what the critics are saying about this week's new movie releases, including The Brothers Grimm, Undiscovered and The Cave.