A wildlife preserve in Africa has too many elephants, and they've got a surprising solution for controlling their population.

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.

The mixture of moondust and carbon nanotubes could be used to make giant telescopes to more easily detect signs of life from distant Earthlike planets.

Possibly mutilated skeletons from a 4,000-year-old site could overturn an ancient period's reputation, an archaeologist says.

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.

Two primates have learned to operate a prosthetic arm using only visualization exercises, scientists report in the latest advance in brain-machine interfaces.

The Vatican has reopened the Valeri Mausoleum, the largest and most luxurious of 22 pagan tombs buried under St. Peter's Basilica, the Associated Press reports.

The remarkably well-preserved fossil, discovered in the Australian outback, is the earliest known record of vertebrate sex, a new study finds.

Fearing landslides or a dam collapse, Chinese soldiers opened a drainage path for one of many new lakes formed by the May 12 earthquake.

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has begun sending back images from the red planet after a smooth landing on Sunday.

The 54-million-year-old "Danish blue"—nicknamed in honor of a Monty Python sketch—skimmed the skies when Europe was tropical, a new study says.

See Amazon Indians protest with machetes, French fishers send up flares over fuel prices, Chinese workers erecting "instant" houses for quake victims, and more.

A TV crew in Japan has captured a 45-second glide believed to be the longest recorded flight of a flying fish.