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The horse's ancient ancestor, the Sifrhippus (right), wasn't always the size of a cat but shrank over a period of time because of warming temperatures.

Will global warming make us shorter?

February 24, 2012, at 3:30 PM

To forecast the future of our overheated planet, scientists looked way back — to an ancient horse the size of a house cat

Buzzards fly around two dead dolphins on a beach in Peru: This year's unusual number of beached dolphins is being blamed on everything from warm weather to something they ate.

Why are dolphins beaching themselves? 4 theories

February 17, 2012, at 5:35 PM

Scientists aren't sure why the beloved marine mammals are getting stranded in unprecedented numbers this winter. But they have a few ideas

Sure, goats don't have their own language, but they're still prone to picking up the bleating patterns of the animals in their immediate social circle.

Do goats have accents?

February 17, 2012, at 3:18 PM

Humans from Texas and Canada sound quite different. Is the same true for our bleating, four-legged pals?

A snow covered road in coastal Maine: Some families in the Pine Tree State simply don't have enough money to keep the heat on all winter.

When the winter cold kills

February 17, 2012, at 11:54 AM

A frigid Maine winter, says Dan Barry, can turn lethal when the fuel oil runs out

A climate change protester: Leaked documents from Chicago's Heartland Institute reveal the libertarian group is financing climate-change skeptics.

The 'secret, corporate-funded' plan to make Americans doubt climate change

February 16, 2012, at 11:02 AM

In a sort of reverse "Climategate," the libertarian Heartland Institute is embarrassed by a major leak. Here, 6 of the highlights

The most unlikely Valentine's couples... in the animal world

February 14, 2012, at 4:35 PM

From predators cuddling their would-be prey to a ram and deer "wedding," these animal pairs prove that love really is blind

Scientists predict that in 100 million years, continents will have shifted so much that people would theoretically be able to walk from the U.S. to China.

'Amasia': The supercontinent of the future?

February 10, 2012, at 7:45 AM

Hundreds of millions of years in the future, humans will be able to walk from North America to China by foot — at least according to a new theory from Yale

A 2006 image of a man at the Vostock research camp in Antarctica: Researchers have finally drilled through two miles of polar ice to reach the ancient sub-glacier lake.

Lake Vostok: The Antarctic's 15-million-year-old time capsule

February 9, 2012, at 6:24 PM

After 20 years of drilling, Russian scientists finally reach an ancient lake buried underneath 2 miles of ice. Was it worth the wait?

A tourist interacts with a whale at Sea World Orlando: PETA claims the marine park is committing something akin to slavery by keeping orcas captive.

Do whales have civil rights?

February 8, 2012, at 3:01 PM

When it comes to the constitutional amendment banning slavery, PETA argues that orcas are people, too

Burmese pythons, some of them escaped pets, have become common in the Florida Everglades, and they're eating the local wildlife.

Are 12-foot pythons devouring the wildlife in the Florida Everglades?

February 1, 2012, at 7:45 AM

Scores of animals native to the Sunshine State's swampy climate are disappearing in "dramatic" numbers — are alien snakes to blame?

A California sea lion: The bodies of eight sea lions with gunshot wounds have been found in Washington state, confounding and worrying many experts.

Washington's sea lion murder mystery

January 31, 2012, at 6:00 AM

Eight protected marine mammals with gunshot wounds are found dead in the Puget Sound area. Who would do such a thing?

On a farm in the Republic of Georgia, a newborn lamb with six limbs drinks milk from its mother.

Europe's freakishly cute six-legged lamb

January 27, 2012, at 12:39 PM

An Eastern European village rejoices over a strange new addition to its livestock pool

A magnet pulls metallic soap out of water. Is this the key to quicker cleanup after oil spills?

The magnetic soap that could clean up oil spills

January 26, 2012, at 7:30 AM

British scientists devise a way to use magnetically charged cleaning solutions to make sticky clean-ups even easier

Scientists have made a new breakthrough in harvesting seaweed that potentially makes it a viable alternative biofuel.

The mutant bacteria that turns seaweed into fuel

January 23, 2012, at 1:01 PM

Kelp is a desirable alternative to land-farmed biofuels, but scientists have had trouble harvesting it. Now, with specially outfitted E. coli, they may be able to

A salvage team prepares to begin recovering thousands of tons of fuel from the capsized Costa Concordia.

Is the wrecked Costa Concordia an 'ecological timebomb'?

January 18, 2012, at 6:32 PM

The resort town of Giglio watches nervously as cleanup crews prepare to pump thousands of tons of oil from the capsized cruise ship

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