It's liable to be a long, slow investigation as seismic activity parts the Red Sea and changes the map of Africa forever.

The Democratic chairman of a House panel examining the government's response to climate change said Tuesday there is evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought repeatedly "to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming.''

Another round is fired in the heated debate over where this diminutive creature goes on our family tree.

The Asian snake Rhabdophis tigrinus is one tough customer. Not only can it swallow toxic toads and live to tell. It also uses the toadís poison for its own defense.

Archaeologists have uncovered what may have been a village for workers or festival-goers near the mysterious stone circle Stonehenge in England.

A new sanctuary in the Dominican Republic will help protect migratory whales who head there in the late fall after spending their spring and summers off the coast of Massachusetts.