Before-and-after pictures from a new atlas show how Africa is altering from the shrinking of Kilimanjaro's snows to the expansion of an "instant" lake.
More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty is outfitted with a new one—which could extend her life considerably.
Newly released satellite images show that Papua New Guinea's rain forests are disappearing so fast that half of them may be gone by 2021, a new study says.
A headless skeleton and disembodied pairs of legs are among possible evidence of ritualized killing at the 4,000-year-old settlement—despite their period's peaceful reputation.
New photos of reportedly uncontacted, painted Indians firing arrows at a plane could help protect the rain forest and its peoples, native-rights activists hope.
See a star flaming out in spectacular style, candy-colored fireworks exploding over New York, dairy kings risking injury for a speeding cheese wheel, and more.
Yes, they had wings, but the largest flying creatures ever to have lived preferred to hunt baby dinosaurs and similar-size snacks on foot, scientists say.
New images will help scientists assess the lander's health and surrounding landscape before starting the search for clues that the red planet was once habitable.
See Amazon Indians protest with machetes, French fishers send up flares over fuel prices, Chinese workers erecting "instant" houses for quake victims, and more.
The tiny grooming tool discovered on the seafloor off Key West, Florida, is just the latest treasure revealed during the hunt for the shipwrecked Spanish galleon Santa Margarita.
An 11th-century ruin in a dusty reservoir has become one of the most striking images of Spain's record drought, which already has forced Barcelona to ship in drinking water for the summer.
