Scientists exposed 4-day-old sand dollar larvae to fish mucus, a sign that danger is close. They found that the larvae created clones of themselves within 24 hours.

An 18-foot minke whale ran aground on a sandbar in the Amazon jungle some 1,000 miles from the ocean. People gathered along the Tapajos River splashing water on the animal, whose back and dorsal fin were exposed to the hot Amazon sun.

An Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body has been given hope of recovery by an American doctor - and Vitamin A. Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty "roots" began growing out of his arms

A noisy parrot that likes to imitate sounds helped save a man and his son from a house fire by mocking a smoke alarm, the bird's owner says.

It was sensational stuff that riveted a nation in 1910: A mild-mannered American doctor poisons then dismembers his unfaithful wife, flees England in disguise with his mistress, is caught, tried & hanged. But new DNA research shows that he was not guilty.

About 4 million dogs are put to death each year in the United States, by injection or gas. Dogsindanger.com is a website that aims to save their lives by offering them for adoption. Each is tagged with a death date set by a shelter -- and a countdown clock

It sounds like science fiction but it's true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die. Even though encounters with the microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare, it's killed six

US retailing giant Target Corp. announced a voluntary recall of 350,000 Chinese-made toy gardening tools and children's lawn furniture that contain excessive levels of lead: "Happy Giddy Gardening Tools" and "Sunny Patch Children's Chairs"

Despite the graying of the nation, the percentage of elderly living in nursing homes has declined, according to Census data released today. The downturn reflects the improved health of seniors and more choices of care for the elderly. About 7.4 percent of

A 2003 byelaw bans people from feeding the pigeons because authorities want the birds to go away, but protestors say the authorities don't understand that these birds will not go anywhere else because they are a tame flock with homing instincts.