Researcher Niel Bruce of the Museum of Tropical Queensland studies Marine specimens in a lighted aquarium off Australia's Lizard Island (see map) in an undated picture.

Whether or not the pursuit of these designs is blunted by the Fukushima Daiichi event remains to be seen.

A young albino Bennett kangaroo inspects the surroundings on an ostrich farm in Swine on the island of Ruegen, Germany.