Shocking statistics on the mass murder of other beings to "feed" the "average American." If we truly "are what we eat," what does this say about human societies who keep billions of creatures for execution, like prisoners, merely for "consumption?"

Billionaire Warren Buffett said unemployment will likely climb a lot higher depending upon how effective the nation's policies are, but he remains optimistic over the long term.

Reseachers have seen the best evidence yet for a pair of black holes orbiting each other within the same galaxy.

The unusually intact fossilized skull of a giant, bony-toothed seabird that lived up to 10 million years ago was found on Peru's arid southern coast, researchers said Friday.

Never mind Mars, alien life may be thriving right here on Earth, a major science conference has heard. Our planet may harbour forms of "weird life" unrelated to life as we know it, according to Professor Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona State Unive

EBay announced a ban on all ivory sales as a conservation group released a report on Tuesday accusing the Internet auction house of contributing to the trade in endangered wildlife products. Just hours before the release of the report by the International

Spectacular fossil forests have been found in the coal mines of Illinois by a US-UK team of researchers.

The complex coloured plumage of extinct birds which once soared over the heads of dinosaurs could soon be revealed

Martian soil appears to contain sufficient nutrients to support life - or, at least, asparagus - Nasa scientists believe.

Scientists say a fossil of a four-legged fish sheds new light on the process of evolution. The creature had a fish-like body but the head of an animal more suited to land than water.