Thanks for the lousy temper, Mom and Dad.

Global warming would be substantially worse right now if not for an international agreement in the 1980s that banned the use of ozone-destroying chemicals, a new study finds.

Tundra Takeover: Trees are encroaching into Arctic tundra faster than scientists previously thought and endangering species that live only there.

A robot that slinks along the ground and winds through water like a salamander reveals how animals climbed out of the water millions of years ago.

If the French had teeth like the Iwasaki snail-eating snake, they wouldn?t need tongs and tiny pitchforks to eat escargot.

Scientists have discovered a biodiversity bounty in the Eastern Pacific where approximately 50 percent of the organisms found in some groups are new to science. The pictured marine snail, Tylodina fungina, was collected in a dredge sample with its host sponge.