Millions of farmed and wild freshwater turtles end up in China every year, where they are eaten or used in medicine. A new Florida law aims to protect the reptiles in the wild.

As suburbs consume baboon habitat, the cheeky monkeys have been raiding homes and garbage bins for food, prompting residents to fight back—some with guns, others with community education. Video.

Rattled on a giant "shake table," a seven-story building wobbled but didn't fall down—evidence that mid-rise wood-frame buildings can be built to withstand earthquakes, experts say. Video.

Attacking from nests as big as pickup-truck beds, invasive western yellowjackets are munching their way through an "astonishing diversity" of Hawaiian creatures, a new study says.

From the limestone caves to the world's tallest waterfall—"the eyes of the planet" are on the finalists from which the seven natural wonders of the world will be chosen.

For the first time, Florida is allowing select hunters to kill pythons in the wild. The non-native snakes are believed to number in the tens of thousands and are killing endangered species, experts say. Video.

Vampire bats in Peru are increasingly biting people, and a National Geographic researcher is trying to find ways to stem the resulting spread of deadly rabies. Video.

Jumbo squid were found flapping on a California beach Saturday after an earthquake, but experts think the timing is coincidental. So what did strand the ocean giants? With video.

Bloody and incomplete, their horns hacked away by poachers, rhinoceros carcasses are appearing in greater numbers, due to growing Asian demand and international trade, groups say.

A favorite of divers in Australia, the blue groper grows to about three feet (one meter) long and can change its own sex. But its numbers are diving, and researchers are trying to throw the groper a lifeline. Video.

Special fog-catching nets that can pull hundreds of gallons a day out of the air are helping conservationists in Peru bring water to rain-starved communities.

A rain-starved community in Peru collects hundreds of gallons of water a day using special fog-catching nets.

Two years after most of Russia's geysers were lost in a landslide, a peculiar geyser has emerged on the Kamchatka Peninsula that spouts water every 6 to 20 minutes.Video.

Two years after most of Russia's geysers were lost in a landslide, a "miracle" geyser has emerged that recycles its own water.

An Argentine official is suggesting people adopt mosquito-munching frogs—not chemicals—as a solution to an outbreak of the disease dengue fever, which is spread by the insects.Video.