The World Day Against Child Labour raised awareness of the plight of child laborers around the world -- most of whom are impoverished and have no chance for a formal education.

Dead and injured animals continue to wash ashore a week after a cargo ship collision caused a massive fuel-oil spill off the Uruguayan coast.

A young deer with a single horn in the center of its head is drawing hundreds of visitors to the nature reserve in Tuscany where it was born, officials report.

Undercover agents with a wildlife-trade investigation group report that they recently found illegal tiger bone wine for sale in two Chinese safari parks.

More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty is outfitted with a new one—which could extend her life considerably.

A wildlife preserve in Africa has too many elephants, and they've got a surprising solution for controlling their population.

Just by thinking, monkeys were able to control a robot arm to feed themselves. Watch this groundbreaking feat of mind over matter.

The famed chimpanzee researcher was in Brussels on Wednesday to urge the European Union to ban animal testing for medical and scientific research.

Across the globe, skyrocketing food prices are inciting riots, hoarding, and starvation. What has caused the worst food crisis in a generation?

The feisty marsupial's new status comes in response to its decline from a mysterious cancer, the Tasmanian state government announced recently.

As the death toll soared past 40,000, state media reported that radioactive materials from hospitals, factories, or research labs buried by debris have been recovered or cordoned off.

Mantis shrimp see 11 or 12 primary colors, as opposed to our humble 3. Now a new study says they can see rare forms of polarization too.

Amid stormy debate, British lawmakers have voted to allow the use of human-animal hybrid embryos for stem cell research.

More than 400 racehorses—many of them in perfect health—are "destroyed" each year in the U.S. territory, where keeping losing or injured horses can be costly. Warning: graphic imagery.

See "Fusion Man" fly via a jet-powered wing on his back, a giant beetle escape a smuggler, volcanic ash falling eerily, and more.