The futuristic entrance to the seed bank leads deep into a frozen mountain, where millions of seeds should be safe from war, warming, and other disasters.

As flames consumed a third of Lake Nakaru National Park, critically endangered rhinos, buffalo, impalas, and other animals "panicked."

A pregnant tiger leaped from a boat, flames seared a U.S. embassy and shot from a missile-launching cruiser, the moon turned red, and more.

Scores of invasive rats on islands are hunting many seabird species into oblivion, a new study says.

A type of hormone signals the Asian swallowtail caterpillar to mimic black-and-white bird droppings and later a green leaf, scientists have found.

Deep in Antarctica's murky waters, scientists have found new, bizarre creatures that grow to abnormally large sizes.

Six new denizens of the deep—from crustacean-crushers to pale and fleshy-lipped eelpouts—were found recently in oceans off Antarctica.

A new monkey debuted in a London "rain forest," a beagle bounded to glory in New York, Japanese children huddled in igloos, and more.

Two new species of two-legged carnivores were recently unveiled: one that hunted like a shark and another that may have eaten like a hyena, researchers say.

The distant galaxy, called A1689-zD1, is photographed forming about 13 billion years ago, not long after the formation of the first galaxies.

In a first, lowland gorillas have been seen mating face-to-face. And it's not the first time the female, nicknamed Princess Leah, has made history.

See the dig and the artifacts that are rewriting the story of Stone Age Egypt.

The sparrow-size reptile that glided through forests 120 million years ago may have been an ancestor of larger pterosaurs, experts say.

South Korean Police arrested a man suspected of setting fire to the 610-year-old Namdaemun gate, the country's top cultural treasure.

Check out a selection of 2007's most compelling news pictures, recently announced by World Press Photo.