Lava rubble at the bottom of the sea is acting like a giant "sponge" for carbon dioxide, ancient cores reveal. Ancient lava ...

Life has a way of bouncing back, even after catastrophic events like forest fires or volcanic eruptions. While nature's ...

Deep beneath the hillsides and suburbs of Brazil, there are tunnels so vast and regular that they look like abandoned subway ...

A newly identified amoeba can survive at the temperature of a medium-well steak. Plus, a distant lava planet shows signs of ...

Over the last four months, the L.A. Zoo has welcomed the birth of five great apes, including a gorilla, orangutan and three ...

A surprising fossil find shows that some mosasaurs lived in ancient rivers as oceans changed near the end of the Cretaceous.

Sharks were filmed swimming inside Kavachi, one of the world’s most violent underwater volcanoes, leaving scientists ...

A surprising expedition reveals sharks thriving in the hostile environment of Kavachi, a highly active underwater volcano.

The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, ...

This time of year, we sometimes see what seems unnatural, a flock of chicken sized birds perched in an aspen or high in a ...

More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — including five beheaded — in Malaysia in the past 18 months, the ...

A volcanologist answers your questions about glass-shard hairballs, cooking breakfast over lava, Gollum's end on Mount Doom, ...