As elephants browse through trees on the African savanna, they create nooks and crannies for geckos to hide from predators and the hot sun, according a new study.

Earlier springs and warmer winters are causing hibernating animals to wake too early or not sleep at all?putting many animals on the path to extinction, researchers say.

A previously unknown species of uakari found in a mountainous region is already rare and "quite vulnerable," a primatologist announced.

A U.S. academic sent Incan artifacts from Peru's "lost" city of Machu Picchu to Yale University in 1911. Was that a loan or a gift?

A magnitude 6.3 quake shook northern Chile Monday but did not appear to cause injury or damage, according to early reports.

Ape researchers are exposing their wild subjects to fatal respiratory diseases, a new study says. But researchers also offer the animals protection from poaching.

A long tradition of rat eating?here in Vietnam?is especially relevant at this lunar New Year ringing in the Chinese calendar's Year of the Rat.

Iran says it opened a new space center Monday and launched the country's first rocket to reach space, according to state-run media.

More than 50 sea lions have been found bludgeoned to death on an uninhabited island in the Galápagos, sparking calls for stricter controls on the islands.