The orangutan clings to the top of a mostly leafless tree in Indonesia's portion of Borneo as waves of thick smoke from the ...

Malaysia closed schools in Kuala Lumpur and other parts of the country Friday as haze from fires in neighboring Indonesia ...

Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, collectively known as coleoid cephalopods, have evolved exceptionally large and elaborately ...

Four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday after hurrying there eight months ago to ...

Scientists in Australia trained sea lions and seals to respond to a hearing test for research into how the marine mammals are ...

Just two weeks after it was launched, the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite returned its first images and measurements from ...

Isaias strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane on Thursday as it headed toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, prompting mandatory evacuations and disrupting oil and gas ...

Blue damselfish, with their striking blue hue, are easy to spot, even along Okinawa's heavily urbanized coastlines. But while ...

A prehistoric cold case near Drumheller reveals either a small-time raptor scavenged on an apex predator, or a baby ...

A new paper published in the journal Phytotaxa describes a new species in the genus Victoria, the Colombian giant water lily ...

A breakdown of normal polar winds in winter raises the chance of extreme cold—and a resulting spike in energy demand—in ...

A remarkably preserved elephant tooth previously recovered from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY-NBA)—a prehistoric site in northern ...