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This photo provided by Aquarium of the Pacific shows Ghost, a giant Pacific octopus, in its habitat at Aquarium of the Pacific on June 6, 2025. (Aquarium of the Pacific via AP)

Fans bid farewell to beloved California octopus Ghost as she cares for eggs in final stage of life

12:10 AM on Friday, September 12

A dying octopus in a Southern California aquarium is receiving an outflowing of love and well wishes as she spends her final days pouring her last energy into caring for her eggs

A Koala is seen being treated for chlamydia by senior Veterinarian Dr Julian Grosmaire at the Endeavour Veterinary Ecology at Toorbul, north of Brisbane, Australia, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (Darren England/AAP Image via AP)

Australia approves world-first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia

10:12 PM on Thursday, September 11

Australia has approved a world-first vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia

FILE - A fisherman walks to his boat in Santa Rosa, Peru, an island on the Amazon River on Aug. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Well-preserved Amazon rainforest on Indigenous lands can protect people from diseases, study finds

11:07 AM on Thursday, September 11

A new study finds well-preserved areas of Amazon rainforest occupied and managed by Indigenous peoples show lower incidences of multiple diseases in the regions around them

This photo provided by researchers in September 2024 shows a mating pair of wild Octopus americanus, one displaying the arm action "raise." (Chelsea Bennice via AP)

How to use 8 arms? Octopuses tend to explore with their front limbs

11:01 AM on Thursday, September 11

Scientists have discovered that octopuses don't have a dominant arm, but they more often use their front arms for tasks

Petitioner Yang Guoliang, whose family has been trapped in an increasingly tight noose of surveillance for the past 16 years, rests in his bedroom at his home in Changzhou, in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Takeaways from AP's investigation into how US tech companies enabled China's digital police state

12:31 AM on Tuesday, September 9

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

Petitioner Yang Guoliang looks through documents at his home in Changzhou in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Detailed findings from AP investigation into how US tech firms enabled China's digital police state

12:30 AM on Tuesday, September 9

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

Petitioner Yang Guoliang pulls back the blackout curtain used to provide privacy from nearby police security cameras and lights during an interview at his home in Changzhou in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

12:04 AM on Tuesday, September 9

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

This handout photo provided by the University of Maine and taken in July, 2025 shows an Asian longhorned tick. (Griffin Dill/University of Maine via AP)

Invasive, disease-carrying tick found in Maine, the farthest northeast it has been spotted

1:25 PM on Monday, September 8

Researchers say they have confirmed the presence of an invasive species of tick in Maine for the first time, marking the farthest northeast in the U.S. where the pest has been discovered

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