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.
Using a rope treadmill, researchers have revealed that tiny species use no more energy climbing vertically than they do walking on the ground, a find that bolsters theories about the earliest primates.
Dangerous skull surgery was commonly and successfully performed among the Inca, likely as a treatment for head injuries suffered during combat, a new study finds.
Tens of thousands of pets and farm animals were trapped as their owners evacuated. Cattle are dying, and pets have no food, but a limited animal evacuation is in the works.
Buddhist monks and Myanmar (Burma) government workers began cleaning the cyclone-struck city of Yangon (Rangoon). But the situation remains grim in the country's delta region. Warning: graphic imagery.
Lost families and lack of aid figure prominently in emotional eyewitness testimony from Myanmar (Burma), where Cyclone Nargis may have killed a hundred thousand people.
Several hippos and at least four lions in the Masai Mara National Reserve have died after accidentally ingesting a powerful insecticide, conservationists say.
