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.

Don't let the foot-long claws fool you. Unlike the X-men's most popular pugilist, this newfound dinosaur species was no predator, scientists say.

Men of the ancient civilization in Mexico carried ancestral thighbones as status symbols, new grave excavations suggest.

Basking sharks, the world's second biggest fish, usually die at sea. So why did a 20-foot giant beach itself on New York's Long Island on Tuesday?

Warning: disturbing images. Asian demand for whole-pangolin-fetus soup, pangolin-scale "medicines," and other concoctions is driving these scaly anteaters to the edge of extinction, a new report says.

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.

Many of the 33 mummies uncovered near Chiclayo, Peru, were those of girls—a rarity, experts say. Their throats slit, the girls were probably killed in a bid for agricultural fertility. Video.

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 bull gets chased into the sea in Spain, India's homosexuals celebrate, and a Washington, D.C., panda gets a "veggie-sicle" birthday cake in this week's best news photos.

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.

False turtle flippers, a lifelike eagle beak, and a powerful latex dolphin tail are among the more unusual prosthetics that are giving injured creatures new leases on life.

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

A new brain-computer interface turns thought into action with lightning speed, allowing precise piloting of a wheelchair, experts say. Their advice: "Imagine playing the piano or jogging."

Filipino inmates dance to "Thriller," a girl rests 1,400 feet in the air, and an elderly ape has a baby in this week's best news photos.