See the huge sea farms where juvenile tuna are fattened up and sold before they can breed. Bluefin tuna in the Atlantic are nearing extinction because of overfishing, warns conservation group WWF.
The discovery of fossilized bone marrow in frog and salamander remains from Spain could reveal crucial secrets about the ancient animals, scientists say.
A cache of bizarre animal fossils unearthed in Australia includes killer kangaroos and the larger relative of a giant bird called the "demon duck of doom."
Abandoned swimming pools in New Orleans harbor a new threat: disease-carrying mosquitoes. So scientists have recruited the help of little fish that put a big bite on the bugs.
Deet got you down? Secretions from frog skin may be the next big thing in mosquito repellent—an all-natural, though smelly, alternative to the chemical.
Watch Belize's fishing bats as they snatch fish from a river, and see what happens when one bat gets trapped in the water, and the hunter becomes prey.
WWF calls for immediate end to fishing of bluefin tuna, says widespread illegal overfishing has nearly destroyed the species in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Not all Hollywood gigs are glamorous. Just ask the snake wrangler who handled the slithering—and often poisonous—stars of the upcoming thriller Snakes on a Plane.
This week: ape meat for sale in U.S., the new parting of the Red Sea, killer kangeroos, having a meaningful day job, and the story behind a photo of an amazing "rainbow."
Bees are declining at many sites in Britain and the Netherlands, scientists find, raising concerns about food crops and plant communities that rely on animal pollinators to reproduce.
Creating an authoritative panel on species loss, similar to the main UN panel on climate change, would help the biodiversity community become more organized and integrated, experts say.
The world's wild tigers have 40 percent less habitat than they did just a decade ago and occupy only 7 percent of their historic range, according to a new report on the big cats.
