Strange beasts--including a giant rat, a lungless worm, and a vegetarian spider--dominated National Geographic News's most popular new-species coverage of 2009.

Many of the hammerhead sharks that are butchered to feed Asian demand for shark-fin soup start their lives in American waters, a new forensic study shows.

Already dangerously rare, Hawaii's akikiki is one of ten already endangered U.S. species that are under added threat from global warming, according to a December 2009 report by the Endangered Species Coalition, an advocacy network based in Washington, D.C

Cells are not static. They can transform themselves over time -- but change can have dangerous implications. Benign cells, for example, can suddenly change into cancerous ones.

It was in 1902 that physician George F. Still first documented what is now known as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) , and despite more than a century of research, its exact cause is still not fully understood.

Summer is coming to a close and September is the biggest month for going back to school, acquiring new projects at work, and no doubt a new set of things to be anxious about.

So much anger and frustration. The volatile cocktail of emotions that was mixing in Melvin Martin had reached a boiling point. He felt like he was about to go crazy. Far from his home on the Navajo reservation and far from his people;s ancient ...

At the Thomas Indian School in Irving, 30 miles south of Buffalo, children from Native American families were systematically stripped of their native culture and heritage, and sometimes abused, for nearly a century. The school closed in 1957....

Convicted in 1993, White recently asked the court to vacate his conviction after the two men who accused him of molesting them as children recanted their testimony. The men were his grandsons. In October, White was reportedly gravely ill with lung ...

Students are now graduating with a new degree in this type of sustainable lifestyle, focusing more on the MBA subject of environmentally-friendly businesses, rather on the Wall-Street oriented future.