Samples taken from a ridge beneath the North Pole appear to back up Russian officials' claim on the potentially oil-rich Arctic seabed....

Wildfire ravages California, divers try out the life aquatic, Typhoon Nari lashes South Korea, more....

It's all in the wrist, according to a new study suggesting that the "hobbit" human found in Indonesia is a discrete species and not a diseased modern human....

The sleek reptilian predator of the big screen actually looked more like a feathered bird that was not much bigger than a turkey....

New high-resolution images of the red planet are throwing a wet blanket over previous geologic signs of liquid water near the Martian surface....

Yale University has agreed to return thousands of Machu Picchu relics to the government of Peru in what many officials are hailing as a landmark deal....

Bogs that "burped" methane contributed to climate 55 million years ago, a new study says. Will wetlands play a similar role today?...

Stone structures lying off a tiny Pacific island continue to draw controversy over whether they are natural formations or the ruins of a 5,000-year-old city.Photos: See the Mysterious Formations...

Fossils of human ancestors found in the republic of Georgia suggest we evolved from a patchwork species that had both apelike and more advanced features, scientists report....

Natural formations or 5,000-year-old city ruins? Scientists are still divided over the origin of mysterious stone structures off the coast of Japan's Yonaguni Jima....

Experts are warning of a "global extinction crisis" of the world's languages and have identified five hotspots where tongues are vanishing most rapidly.Video: Last Speaker of "Dead" Language...

A bear, a beheaded caribou, a cigarette-smoking deity, and other wild wonders stalk our selection of winning pictures from the latest Banff Mountain Photography Competition....

See what towns made the list of the world's dirtiest cities, and witness the grim toll that pollution is taking on people and the environment from Peru to China....

An unusual species of flying fox was recently discovered in the Philippines not long after it was deemed not to exist....

Satellite images show that rapid Arctic ice loss has completely cleared a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans....

Honeybees on the island of Cyprus form tight balls around attacking hornets to suffocate them, new research suggests....

A controversial new study claims that interstellar dust and plasma can organize into DNA-shaped structures that have the ability to reproduce and evolve....

Watch as language hunters in Australia's outback discover the only known speaker of a language long thought to be dead....

By rewarding the makers of the first privately operated lunar rovers, Google and X-Prize officials hope their "Moon 2.0" contest will jumpstart a new Web-savvy space race....

An odd planetary mass detected by a NASA satellite in June emits plumes of gas that create vibrant outbursts visible from Earth....

Salmon surrogates have created young that are 100 percent trout, researchers say. The technique could be used to produce species that are endangered or even extinct....

Deadly cobra guards $125,000 sandal, Russia detonates "father of all bombs," Ethiopia rings in year 2000, more....

A type of gorilla and dolphin are among a thousand new animals added to the World Conservation Union's 2007 Red List of Threatened Species....

The mummified remains of teenage girl who died more than 500 years ago went on public display for the first time last week in Argentina....