Now notorious for causing the death of TV's "Crocodile Hunter," the normally docile stingray uses its potentially lethal tail barb only when it feels threatened.
Looks like someone's been makin' Wookiee. Resembling nothing so much as Chewbacca's children, two of the world's smallest monkeys recently debuted at a Swedish zoo.
Despite ongoing turmoil between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, ecologists are finding time to give endangered sea turtles a boost in the Mediterranean Sea.
Marooned amid rising waters, many residents refused to leave their livestock, one of the most valuable assets in a country heavily dependent on agriculture.
Go beneath the surface with a pair of Antarctic divers and witness some of the world's oddest creatures: fish with "antifreeze," thousand-year-old sponges—perhaps even a new species.
Rat sperm grown in mouse testicles can produce healthy babies, scientists show. The new research has implications for genetic engineering and species conservation.
Watch video and animated stills of an elephant massacre near Chad's Zakouma National Park—evidence of a major poaching problem along the park's borders. Warning: graphic content
See stills and animated images from an aerial survey that has revealed evidence of a major poaching problem on the borders of one of the elephants' last central African strongholds. Warning: graphic images
An airborne biologist and his team have found the remains of large-scale elephant slaughters, evidence of a major poaching problem on the borders of a central African wildlife park.
