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Fishing lines can unintentionally kill sea turtles, so researchers want to predict where these deadly encounters might happen.

Examinations of airborne scans of three New England towns revealed networks of old stone walls, building foundations, old roads, dams and other features, many of which long were forgotten.

The clymene dolphin may be a rarity in the mammal world: the product of a mating between two species.

Snow-white predators are showing up in unusual numbers in the northeast and around the Great Lakes.

Based on tests of microbes under Marslike conditions, an expert thinks airborne microbes could grow 30 miles above Earth's surface, in the stratopause.

Pesky parasites can tell their own version of our history, including the idea that modern humans intermingled with Neanderthals and that humans may have first put on clothing before leaving Africa.

The strain of cholera bacteria that became epidemic in Haiti in 2010 is now infecting and killing people in other countries as well.

Sea level projections for 2100 have gone up, thanks to a better understanding of ice sheets.

Projections for rising sea levels are expected to increase in the new IPCC report on the state of climate change science.

Researchers have relied on cells called HeLa cells for years, but the cells were collected without the consent of the woman they came from, Henrietta Lacks, which has made their use controversial.

Madagascar, one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, has seen a decline in the rate of formation of new species over time, a new study of DNA of its unique lizards shows.

Remains of conservation icon Lonesome George are prepared for display.

For a team of paleontologists heading off to the Arctic, packing is a science.

The U.N. has backed this strange-sounding source of nutrition.