New generations of cane toads in northern Australia have evolved longer legs, allowing the toxic invaders to spread across the continent at a much faster rate.
A discovery could spur the development of a tool that would allow doctors to detect diseases like cancer by listening to the sounds of their patient's bodies.
The bears could be the first mammals officially deemed endangered due to global warming, possibly indicating a shift in Bush Administration thinking on climate change.
Olympic organizers promise that the Turin Games will be "the greenest ever." But conservationists warn of a larger environmental crisis looming at the games' Alpine site.
Explore one of Earth's biggest biodiversity hotspots—the islands stretching from Indonesia to the Philippines—and experience the sizeable wildlife that thrives there.
Deep in a South Pacific island jungle, explorers have uncovered an Eden thriving with unknown kangaroos, birds, bugs, and more, the scientists announced today.
Score one for the Swiss-Army-knife theory. A new study hints that brains are made up of distinct parts dedicated to distinct tasks, including recognizing faces.
It may be a threat to humans' long-term future on the planet, but climate change may have helped bring us into being in the first place, some scientists say.
In times of economic crisis, natural disaster, and other stresses, mothers tend to produce fewer male children. New research suggests a reason for the decline.
