Authorities are receiving several reports of pigeons found alive with metal darts through their skulls. An animal rights group is offering a reward for information about the assailant.

See a noxious volcano blazing, a steaming sacrifice, uncanny underwater robots, Europe's biggest waterfall turned blue, and more.

Pierre the African penguin's condition has greatly improved since scientists commissioned protective gear after he began losing his insulating, waterproof feathers.

Officials are training seven duplicate puppies to see if they can reduce the expense and difficulty of finding qualified canines to sniff out drugs and explosives.

A newly released atlas of Hubble images could be an interstellar Rorschach test, with galaxy collisions resembling everything from sea life to dental tools.

See the "popemobile" putter past the White House, a psychedelic star nursery spin through space, and more.

A passenger jet carrying 85 people crashed into a crowded market district in the city of Goma yesterday. A correspondent on assignment for National Geographic was there and provides these exclusive photos.

Half a century after the biggest bomb in U.S. history destroyed the Bikini Atoll, corals and other marine life are bouncing back, a new survey found.

A statue of Lucius Verus, who ruled ancient Rome alongside his more famous adopted brother Marcus Aurelius, was recently recovered among a cache of looted artifacts.

The world's best preserved woolly mammoth—a 37,000-year-old female—gets CT-scanned in an unprecedented look at prehistoric biology.

Global warming caused melting ice to swell and empty a glacier lake, sending a "tsunami" rolling through a river, a scientist said today.

See wind-swept Martian dunes, planes upturned by a tornado, Haitian food riots, Martin Luther King, Jr., remembered, and more.

See how the torch has changed—from an ancient oil burner to a dangerous magnesium model to Beijing's Chinese-scroll-turned-blowtorch.

The tiny moon Phobos and its enormous impact crater star in several colorful new images taken by NASA's HiRISE camera.

A new dam in Laos might spell doom for the Mekong giant catfish, the world's largest freshwater fish, experts say.