Something like Spider-Man disguised as a vacuum cleaner, the T-34 security robot shoots nets at intruders and can be controlled via mobile phone.

Australia's Tolga Bat Hospital is saving spectacled flying foxes orphaned by an insect-spread disease that is killing bat mothers.

About 50 sperm whales beached for unknown reasons in Australia Thursday. Wildlife rangers spent Friday trying to save the few survivors.

With pollution and climate change threatening beluga whales, aquarium biologists are studying the whales' communication in hopes of helping the species in the wild.

Found off Australia, two Myanmarese (Burmese) fishers claim they survived at sea in a large cooler for 25 days on only rainwater and fish regurgitated by seabirds after the men's ship had sunk.

Conservationists say herders are poisoning lions in Kenya with the pesticide Furadan, also known as Carbofuran, to keep them from killing livestock.

Japanese researchers have shown a humanoid robot with fingers that can pick up small delicate objects, such as straws, nearly as well as people.

A Chinese farmer, long ridiculed for building robots from spare parts, is making money and winning awards from his hobby. His latest: a mustachioed, rickshaw puller.

Residents of the Caribbean island of Montserrat call one of their edible frog species mountain chicken, but this edible amphibian is now endangered, conservationists say.

Pouring grape juice and other liquids on 3,000-year-old Olmec sculptures in Mexico, people performing a ritual badly damaged the treasures.

Within the last decade, the Chubut province in Argentina has become a paradise for paleontologists seeking fossilized clues about the flora and fauna from millions of years hence.

Confiscated from a smuggler in Egypt, an ancient bronze statuette—perhaps of a goddess—has been returned to Iraq.

Some 93 million years ago, dinosaur-era "sea monsters" swam the seas above what is now Utah. Thanks to paleontologists, more evidence of the ancient beasts is now surfacing.

Two Australian tourists were killed when giant chunks of ice slid off New Zealand's Fox Glacier. The brothers had ventured into an off-limits zone.

Up and down California's coast, brown pelicans are dying in alarming numbers, and sick and disoriented pelicans have been found wandering on roads and in other unusual places—and scientists are stumped.