Typhoon Fengshen battered the island nation over the weekend, capsizing a packed ferry boat and putting three provinces in a state of calamity, officials say.
Hot-pink millipedes, "Michelin Man" plants, and lethal jellyfish are among the new surprising new species in a ranking by the International Institute for Species Exploration.
A fiery cave festival in Spain, an Indian butterfly dance, and a Times Square yoga fest -- if previous years are any hint, the 2008 summer solstice should be a day of worldwide rejoicing and revelry.
Sixty-two square miles of ice broke off the Wilkins Ice Shelf, satellite images show—the first documented instance of a breakup during the Southern Hemisphere winter.
A weedy sea dragon at a Georgia aquarium might celebrate this Father's Day as a new "mom." While it's normal for males to carry eggs, reproduction in captivity is rare.
A young deer with a single horn in the center of its head is drawing hundreds of visitors to the nature reserve in Tuscany where it was born, officials report.
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.
