According to theory, water is not stable on the moon's surface above -167 °C. As a result, ice should be concentrated in "cold traps" near the lunar poles, in craters that never get any sunlight. NASA's LCROSS spacecraft found water..............

First came see-through frogs. Now Japanese researchers have succeeded in producing goldfish whose beating hearts can be seen through translucent scales and skin.

South Africa is under fire from breeders to ban its controversial canned hunting of captive lions. The barbaric "sport" of canned hunting means an animal is hunted in a small space, with no chance of escape. Lions are bred for the sole purpose of being

After the debacle at Copenhagen, the world will be hoping that global leaders can make up for lost time this year. Already Gordon Brown is pushing for another meeting of world leaders to sort out the mess as soon as possible

Tourists feed tigers at the Xiongsen Bear and Tiger Park, a private zoo in Guillin, China, in an undated photograph. Many such tourist attractions secretly operate as fronts for illegal tiger farming, butchering captive tigers for their parts.......

SAN JUAN -- A 16-year-old Mexican girl was forced into household labor, deprived of food and shelter and raped six times by the man who smuggled her into this country, according to authorities

Police investigating the deaths of two young siblings who drove their toy four-wheeler into a Van Zandt County creek while unattended will refer the case to prosecutors

In April, Lisa Richter was making a left turn on green in Oswego when she was struck by a vehicle traveling the opposite direction, killing her instantly. Authorities say Richter, 34, might still be alive if not for an unintended consequence of

Anan, a southern white rhinoceros, was born in late October at The Wilds, becoming the first known fourth-generation white rhino born in captivity in North America. Her name means "fourth born" in the west African language Akan,

Ruth Thompson Wilson, the last surviving daughter of one of the Tuolumne Me-Wuk Rancheria's founding families and a champion of Native American culture, died Saturday of cancer at age 88. Wilson was born Sept. 21, 1921, on the Tuolumne rancheria,