Marooned amid rising waters, many residents refused to leave their livestock, one of the most valuable assets in a country heavily dependent on agriculture.
Go beneath the surface with a pair of Antarctic divers and witness some of the world's oddest creatures: fish with "antifreeze," thousand-year-old sponges—perhaps even a new species.
Rat sperm grown in mouse testicles can produce healthy babies, scientists show. The new research has implications for genetic engineering and species conservation.
Watch video and animated stills of an elephant massacre near Chad's Zakouma National Park—evidence of a major poaching problem along the park's borders. Warning: graphic content
See stills and animated images from an aerial survey that has revealed evidence of a major poaching problem on the borders of one of the elephants' last central African strongholds. Warning: graphic images
An airborne biologist and his team have found the remains of large-scale elephant slaughters, evidence of a major poaching problem on the borders of a central African wildlife park.
Reports of masked marauders killing pet cats in the capital city of Olympia may greatly exaggerate the threat from wild raccoons, a wildlife expert contends.
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita inundated Louisiana marshes with salt water, and a subsequent drought means that the waters have stayed too salty for gators to comfortably reproduce.
This week: Pluto not a planet, "Atlantis" eruption update, jellyfish invasion, ant speed record, interview with Kilimanjaro's quickest conqueror, more.
A celebrity orca barked just like a sea lion, scientists say, proving that killer whales have the rare ability to learn and produce new sounds. With audio
The recent discovery of a fox carcass has prompted fears that invasive foxes have established a foothold in the Australian state of Tasmania, an island renowned for its large areas of pristine wilderness.
It's a record in the animal kingdom: The trap-jaw ant catapults to safety by snapping its jaws at an astonishing 145 miles (233 kilometers) an hour, scientists say.
A year after Hurricane Katrina, new laws and big shelters are cropping up nationwide to better accommodate pets during a disaster. But so are lawsuits over the storm's pet refugees.
Huge hordes of jellyfish are plaguing Mediterranean beaches, stinging tens of thousands of vacationers. Experts blame the invasion on warming seas and overfishing of the jellies' competitors.
