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After more than six years touring the red planet, the Mars rover Spirit is no longer on a roll, NASA mission managers announced. But if the rover survives the oncoming winter, there's plenty of science that can be done.

Pigments have been found in fossil dinosaurs for the first time—taking "dinosaur color out of the realm of art and into the realm of science."

Fast-spreading parasites force sex changes on victims, induce virgin births, and turn animals into "gross monsters"—all via genetic sabotage, a new study finds.

Fast-spreading parasites force sex changes on victims, induce virgin births, and turn animals into "gross monsters"—all via genetic sabotage, a new study finds.

After more than six years touring the red planet, the Mars rover Spirit is no longer on a roll, NASA mission managers announced. But if the rover survives the oncoming winter, there's plenty of science that can be done.

Only 350 wild tigers remain in Asia's Mekong River region, according to a new report from the conservation nonprofit WWF, which says the loss is being driven by trade in tiger parts. Video.

Only 350 wild tigers remain in Asia's Mekong River region, according to a new report from the conservation nonprofit WWF, which says the loss is being driven by trade in tiger parts. Video.

Grouper "landlords" that carve out their rocky homes in the seafloor inadvertently give other marine animals free housing, a new study says.

A voodoo scholar explains how Haiti's many believers may view the earthquake, why he thinks Pat Robertson's post-quake remarks were "cruel, ignorant, unforgivable"—and more.

A research center slated to be built in 2010 as part of the Sahara Forest Project is meant to serve as a proving ground for new technologies designed to bring green living to the desert, project managers say.

The U.S. Southeast and the Bahamas will be pounded by more very intense hurricanes in the coming decades due to global warming, a new computer model suggests.

A newfound "comet" traveling in an unusual orbit may actually be fallout from the explosive collision of two asteroids, say astronomers who recently spotted the fuzzy, tailed object.

Male great tits with brighter breasts have stronger sperm, according to the first study to find a link between flashiness and sperm strength in animals.

The ancestors of lemurs, fossa, and other Madagascar mammals got to the island aboard natural rafts, according to a new model of the ocean currents and prevailing winds that existed 50 million years ago.

Chinese pits filled with an astounding array of small dinosaur fossils may have been created by a 20-ton behemoth wandering a volcanic landscape, a new study suggests.