Into The =PiT=

Young martial artists take flight, China's "quake lake" drains with epic force, thousands of protestors light up the night, and more.

A "holy grail" of Great Lakes wrecks, the remarkably intact H.M.S. Ontario is the oldest wreck yet found in the Great Lakes.

A fiery cave festival in Spain, an Indian butterfly dance, and a Times Square yogafest -- if previous years are any hint, the 2008 summer solstice should be a day of worldwide rejoicing and revelry.

Typhoon Fengshen battered the island nation over the weekend, capsizing a packed ferry boat and putting three provinces in a state of calamity, officials say.

When attacked, eleven species of African frogs pierce their own skin with toe bones to sprout makeshift claws, a new study reveals.

"I'll fkn stab ya!!!" - Frog

Freaky Frogs

The ancestors of the first four-legged land animals already showed signs of the group's trademark diversity, suggests a new fossil reconstruction of a transition species.

Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico.

Whalers and conservationists consider backing off a 22-year-old international hunting moratorium to curb unregulated whaling in defiance of the ban.

Flames licked at leaping Spaniards, twin galaxies came to light, riot police slept in the streets, a typhoon whipped up a stunning tableau, and more.

Living fast and dying really young, these reptiles without a cause all hatch in the same month, then go out in a four-month, mating-happy blaze of glory, a new study says.

Young penguins are freezing to death as rainfall increases in Antarctica?one of many factors endangering two-thirds of penguin species, a new paper says.

A beach full of red balloons, a new Argo setting sail, and a U.S. flag lit up by lightning are among this week's most colorful events.

About 9,500 years ago, nomadic hunter-gatherers camped out on the banks of the Seine to hunt and collect flint pebbles, archaeologists say.