The safe answer to how a lantern shark turns its luminescence on and off is: "Any way it wants." Now researchers have looked into the belly of the beast and found that three hormones act as on-off switches for these glow-in-the-dark sharks.

WWF, the global conservation organization, is urging countries meeting in Brazil this week to agree urgently on a temporary fishing ban for the beleaguered Atlantic bluefin tuna, as an essential measure to avoid imminent stock collapse.

Rachel Maddow Al Gore on U S climate change deniers image abroad

A recent study detailed that nearly 50 percent of dogs and almost 60 percent of cats are overweight or obese due to high-calorie diets and insufficient exercise, sparking questions in this author's mind about the eating habits of animals in the wild.

The seizure of two frozen tigers last week only scratches the surface of widespread wildlife trafficking in Vietnam, an international expert has said.

The US and European space agencies have signed the "letter of intent" that ties together their Mars programmes.

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A Brazilian man who was thought to have been killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family when he turned up alive at his funeral. Relatives of bricklayer Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified him as the victim of a car crash on Sunday night, pol

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