With shooting out of the question now, park managers in Australia are debating how to control damage caused by herds of wild horses.

Students at South Africa's Southern Cross School spend as much time in the bush or sitting under shade trees as they do sitting in traditional classrooms.

Debate around the use of shark nets to protect swimmers in Australia has reignited after two great white sharks killed a surfer last month.

With nearly 60 percent of its fossil record still missing, the evolutionary history of the bat has been largely unknown. A new study is changing that.

Scientists are working to develop a handheld scanner that can instantly identify plant and animal species by their DNA "bar codes."

Scientists have recreated part of the genetic code of a shrewlike species that is thought to have been the most recent common ancestor of most placental mammals, including humans.

Mice with human brain cells and humans with pig tissue are only two real-life examples of chimeras—creatures that are part human, part animal. But is it safe—and ethical?

Cougars are increasingly common in the U.S. Midwest and the suburbs of the West—areas where the cats have been all but invisible for a hundred years.

Unearthed with rhino, giraffe, monkey, hippo, and antelope remains, fossil fragments are adding detail to the earliest chapters of human evolution.

Scientists who just returned from a deep-ocean expedition say they are closer to understanding how life thrives at seafloor cracks spewing scalding water.

The destructive force of the recent tsunami is evident along coastlines throughout the Indian Ocean. But what was the impact on life beneath the waves?

Sydney's Taronga Zoo has twin female platypuses with a problem: They can't find good males with which to settle down and have babies.

As mass-produced artificial spider silk looks more and more feasible, scientists speculate on possible applications: body armor, sutures, and more.

Using special tags, scientists have learned where gray-headed albatrosses fly between mating seasons. The finding may aid 19 threatened species.

Two fossil finds in China suggest that prehistoric mammals were bigger and badder than previously thought. At least one even ate dinosaurs for dinner.