A new, likely endangered species of peccary—a member of the pig family—has been discovered in the southeastern rain forest of Brazil.

With nearly 80 percent of Belgium-size Tabasco state flooded, about half of its two million residents are suffering, according to reports.

King Tut's mummy was moved to a high-tech glass case on November 4, 2007, the first time the famous pharaoh has ever been publicly displayed.

Archaeologists in the South Pacific country of Vanuatu have found a skull in a jar and 60 headless skeletons—one of them with three skulls arrayed across its rib cage.

Roman tombstone found in Scotland, space station solar wing tears, Indonesian volcano erupts, and more.

Villages were washed away, a giant head "waded" in an overflowing river, and dozens died as tropical storm Noel and other tempests spurred floods.

A newly found stellar black hole is significantly larger than the previous champion, which was announced just two weeks ago, scientists say.

From AIDS to cancer to suicide, see which causes of death hit hardest in which parts of the world using a unique new series of maps.

At half a billion years old, the fossils represent the oldest jellyfish ever found and push back the known existence of jellies 205 million years, scientists say.

Which island destinations are succumbing to tourism overkill, and which are wearing well? Experts weighed in on 111 hot spots for a new survey.

A new 3-D reconstruction of an ancient spider has revealed the tiny animal's inner workings in all their gory detail.

Sorry, Da Vinci Code buffs—still no whiskers to be found on the Apostle John (Mary Magalene?), even in the hair-raisingly precise 16-billion-pixel image.

Extremely rare full-body impressions of salamander-like creatures that lived 330 million years ago were presented today.

Hurricanes, rising sea levels, and mismanagement wear away at these ten endangered East Coast beaches, scientists said yesterday.

Sumatran orangutans, Miss Waldron's red colobuses, and Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkeys are among the world's most endangered primates, according to a new report.