First a python eats an alligator (and explodes), then another swallows a pregnant sheep (but not for long), and yet another ingests an electric blanket. Now this.

One northern state plans to train unemployed youths to sterilize the hordes of monkeys that have migrated to farms and cities after losing their forest habitat.

Conservationists condemn U.S. government plans to sell Chukchi Sea petroleum leases. The groups say polar bear and walrus populations weren't considered and Arctic warming wasn't factored.

Quebec City celebrates 400th anniversary, Chile volcano erupts, Kenya reels under violence, Brazilians honor sea goddess, and more.

Previously unknown amphibians have been discovered during expeditions to a remote region of Costa Rica, scientists have announced.

A newly discovered structure believed to be an 800-year-old pyramid could solve "one of the underexplored mysteries of the Aztec," experts say.

People living thousands of years ago in what is now Finland invented ice-skating not for fun but for survival, computer simulations suggest.

After decades of persecution that began under Stalinist rule in the 1930s, Buddhism and monasteries are now on the rebound in Mongolia.

Australia has seen some extreme weather-related events this week?from unusually foamy ocean water on a New South Wales beach to bushfires in the country's west.

Three-dimensional scans of the nearly intact calf and tiny air bubbles inside its lungs may reveal clues about climate change and the demise of mammoths.

A climber rescued earlier this week returned to an Australian mountain Thursday to save his dog, a 143-pound (65-kilogram) bullmastiff.

The mummified, tattooed head of a Maori man should be returned to New Zealand for proper burial, Rouen maintains, despite opposition from national officials.