Armed with needle-sharp fangs and powerful limbs sprouting from its head, the creature was found in the world's longest underwater lava tube in the Canary Islands.
As the Dead Sea—really a giant freshwater lake—dramatically shrinks, Palestinian, Israeli, and Jordanian environmentalists have begun to devise ways to slow the decline.
More than a decade after the predators were reintroduced to the Northern Rockies, up to 300 wolves may be killed this fall. But environmental groups claim the population has not recovered enough to endure such a loss.
After a century of pollution in the Seine, salmon are once again swimming by the Eiffel Tower in numbers that exceed "anything we could imagine," a French official says.
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.
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.
A new study finds that people naturally walk in circles when their sense of direction is lost. Researchers had people walk in the desert and through a forest. Video.
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.
Despite unfriendly conditions for Atlantic hurricane formation, Hurricane Bill is now at Category 4, and is expected to stay that way. Said one meteorologist: "Bill is lucky."
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."
Among fertile farms once rich with wetlands, conservationists are recruiting Washington State farmers to temporarily inundate their fields in an effort to bring back habitat for migratory shorebirds.
