Scores of invasive rats on islands are hunting many seabird species into oblivion, a new study says.

Wolves in the region are "thriving" and are ready for states and local tribes to manage their populations, federal officials announced.

Introduced rats are attacking seabird nesting colonies, eating eggs, and in some cases killing adult birds on hundreds of ocean islands, a new study says.

Grasshoppers, crickets, and water bugs are snack foods in Northern Thailand, where international nutrition experts are meeting this week to discuss and promote insect eating.

A type of hormone signals the Asian swallowtail caterpillar to mimic black-and-white bird droppings and later a green leaf, scientists have found.

Deep in Antarctica's murky waters, scientists have found new, bizarre creatures that grow to abnormally large sizes.

Guards tranquilized a pregnant tiger in India and rescued it from the date palm tree it climbed to avoid local villagers.

Scientists taking a census of Southern Ocean marine life found an abundance of odd-looking critters, including "sea spiders the size of dinner plates."

Six new denizens of the deep—from crustacean-crushers to pale and fleshy-lipped eelpouts—were found recently in oceans off Antarctica.

Enigmatic corals that can live for at least 5,000 years may fill in large gaps in the evolutionary and climatic records, scientists say.

Swallowing handfuls of soil before or after eating certain leaves helps chimps in Uganda "self medicate" against the parasite that causes malaria, a new study suggests.

Giant sea spiders and other species are among thousands of creatures—a quarter of them previously unknown—found in the icy depths of the Southern Ocean.

Sharks follow well-used migration routes to popular feeding spots—areas that could be set aside for conservation, experts announced at a recent meeting.

Scientists working in Madagascar have found what may be the largest frog that ever lived—and it had an attitude to match, experts say.

After 450 million years swimming the ocean, some shark species are on the verge of extinction—mainly due to over-fishing.