Lightning crackles, a storm makes its power felt, and more in our new weekly roundup of weather shots, natural disaster images, and other nature news photos.
The loss of Mexico's coastal mangrove forests to development is threatening the country's multimillion-dollar fishing industry, according to a new study.
A new population of the highly endangered greater bamboo lemur has been found in east-central Madagascar wetlands, hundreds of miles from its forest-dwelling relatives.
Animals that were injured or left homeless by the May 12 earthquake are getting second chances -- and sometimes homemade walkers -- at a shelter near Chengdu.
A tailless plane and a craft that sports engines on top of its wings were among the ultra-efficient designs that took top honors in the 2008 NASA Fundamental Aeronautics Student Competition.
Metal plates covered the eyes and mouth of the mummy, which was found with mysterious balls and other "strange things we never expected," as one researcher said.
The end of the "running of the bulls" festival, a peek at the opening ceremony of the Olympics, and the pope's visit to Australia are among this week's highlights.
Toadfish grunts, bird songs, and human speech are all controlled by a common brain circuit that first appeared in animals hundreds of millions of years ago, a new paper says.
The ghastly predators, which suck up earthworms like spaghetti, may have traveled to the United Kingdom as stowaways in plants from the Caucasus region.
A violent volcanic eruption in Alaska's Aleutian Islands that continues to spew ash and sulfur dioxide gas and is expected to stay active for weeks, observers say.
Even with 28 million insect specimens in their collection, experts at London's Natural History Museum haven't found a match for a bug in their own backyard.
