After causing early stages of lightning in clouds, scientists say they're much closer to being able to control actual lightning bolts with lasers.

Researchers in Indonesia have discovered a rare frog species that has no lungs and instead gets all its oxygen through its skin.

See wind-swept Martian dunes, planes upturned by a tornado, Haitian food riots, Martin Luther King, Jr., remembered, and more.

Aggressive horses, scared pigs, and hyperactive dogs are some of the "patients" treated by Ida Brajkovic at Croatia's first center for animal psychiatry.

A girl born with two faces in India is a form of conjoined twin. Villagers are revering her as a reincarnation of a Hindu goddess.

A new dam in Laos might spell doom for the Mekong giant catfish, the world's largest freshwater fish, experts say.

Claude, an Asiatic black bear living in a Japanese zoo, has attracted attention for twirling sticks. The habit could be an act of boredom or play, experts say.

The largest freshwater fish ever caught, the Mekong giant catfish, could face extinction if a large dam is completed in Laos, experts say. Part six of an ongoing series on megafishes.

The Indonesian amphibian may have evolved to respire through its skin as an adaptation to its cold, fast-moving stream habitat, a new study says.

Proteins in the reptiles' blood have been shown to kill drug resistant bacteria and even to partially destroy the virus that causes AIDS, researchers announced.

See a striking image of blood on ice, the Golden Gate gone dark, a "young" supernova, a robotic ship on the edge of space, and more.

Nanotechnology scientists are working to generate electricity from raindrops. Could it be the ultimate form of clean energy?

Wild octopuses engage in "jealous murders," gender bending, and once-in-a-lifetime sex, unlike their seemingly shy, unromantic captive brethren, a new study says.

It has a face like a plate and eyes like a human's. And it may signal a whole new family of fishes, one expert suggests.

Coprolites from Oregon date to 14,300 years ago—another blow to the Clovis-first theory that humans came to the New World via an ice-free corridor.