See undersea worlds that stand to be lost—and that six Southeast Asian governments are trying to save with their new Coral Triangle initiative to protect coastal reefs. Video.
Like the X-men's Wolverine extending his claws, the Spanish ribbed newt slashes through itself with its sharp rib bones to create defensive spines, a new study says.
Like jazz musicians, Brazilian free-tailed bats string together complex riffs of chirps, buzzes, and trills as they hang around dripping pungent fluids, says a new study of male mating calls.
A long-legged mammal, a sharp-toothed rodent, and an iridescent beetle are among the more than 6,500 fossils recently unearthed in Germany's Messel Pit, where creatures trapped in 47-million-year-old shale have been helping scientists better understand life during the Eocene epoch.
Amid chaos stemming from a March coup d'etat, hunting gangs are killing Madagascar's rare primates as bush meat for upscale restaurants, conservationists say.
Even flies engage in the battle of the sexes: Female fruit flies that kick themselves free during sex and mate with more males have a better chance of reproducing, a new study says.
See a torch-bedecked bull, a rocket go out in a blaze of glory, a green roof get mowed, and more in our editor's picks of the week's best news pictures.
Like police officers and nurses, cleaner fish on coral reefs wear certain colors and patterns to let "clients" know where to find them—and not to eat them—a new study says.
Caught in the act in the dinosaur age, pterosaur feet left behind footprints that show a hopping, birdlike landing, say discoverers of the first known pterosaur landing tracks.
The world's seafood appetite is growing but its oceans are increasingly empty. See what science has dreamed up to fill the void--from untethered "Oceanspheres" to sharp-edged "SeaStations."
A WWF spokesperson says that, unless development around giant panda habitat in China is controlled, the panda could become extinct within two or three generations. Video.
