Trevor Stokes

In an unexpected pitch, a trio of whale conservationists proposed Thursday the previously unthinkable to protect the world's largest creatures: Put a price tag on whales to save them.

Researchers announced Thursday the discovery of the smallest known vertebrate - a frog from New Guinea that not only fits on a U.S. dime, but has enough space to invite four or five fellow species.

Lindsay Lohan owes the IRS $93,701.57 in back taxes from 2009, but the real take home may be: That's it? Celebrities are famous for making tons of cash and also for mismanaging the hoard. When hipster darling Zooey Deschanel released her expenses in January, the shock was how responsible the actress managed her money.

Chelsea Handler's new sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? premieres Wednesday on NBC and is based on her three best-selling memoirs. The comedian plays the role of her older sister in the sitcom based on the 36-year-old's life. However, Handler isn't the first celebrity to turn fact into sitcom fiction

For a price, nearly anybody can have a species named after them.

Hostess Brands, maker of the Americana Twinkie cake, filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday, begging the question: Who's going to keep making Twinkies?

2012 will likely prove to become another banner year of Hollywood destructo-flicks as doomsday predictors countdown to Dec. 21 - when conspiracy theorists claim the end of the Mayan calendar will coincide with end of days.

The hands of a symbolic doomsday clock fell back one minute Tuesday to five minutes to midnight, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group that monitors global threats such as climate change, nuclear proliferation and human-caused disasters.

Welcome View-Master 2.0 - the toy has now entered the digital age.

Parents may be able to control ADHD in their children through diet, a new study review concluded Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

The next ice age, due in the next 1,500 years, won't arrive because of high levels of carbon dioxide greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, scientists reported Monday.

The search for extraterrestrial life just got a little closer to its goal. Scientists released preliminary results Friday of signals from NASA's Kepler satellite as part of the Search of Extraterrestrial Intelligence based out of the University of California Berkeley.

Blue Ivy Carter joined a very auspicious and rarefied club when she entered the world Saturday: Babies with strange names and celebrity parents.

Stephen Hawking, the world renowned theoretical physicist, was too ill Sunday to celebrate his 70th birthday, but that didn't stop people around the world from sending well wishes.

Scientists may have developed a time cloak that makes the tiniest of events disappear, but in some cases, famous people already beat the researchers to the punch.

The biggest mystery in the universe perplexing one of the world's best known scientists is -- women.

Popcorn Sutton, a famous Appalachian moonshiner, was a surge in popularity after the Discovery TV network aired Moonshiners Wednesday, a show that explored his life that ended in suicide in 2009.

Zombie bees may the reason why the flower pollinators worldwide are dying off, scientists said Thursday.

Ken Ward, TV reporter, was set to drive Wednesday from Charlotte, N. C. to Tampa Bay, Fla. to start his new job at an ABC affiliate.

The DASH diet ran to the top of the list of 2012 diets according to the U.S. News & World Report that released its annual list Wednesday.

What do yeti crabs and David Hasselhoff have in common? Hairy chests, according to researchers.

The Quadrantids meteor shower won't be the only chance sky gazers get to view meteor showers in 2012. Below is a schedule of dates of expected peak meteor showers from NASA.

Wesley Durden isn't the first reality star who died by suicide. Many others have fallen under the bright light of reality television only to commit suicide after the television cameras leave.

As NASA's latest Mars Curiosity rover ventures to explore the red planet's ability to sustain life starting in August - back on Earth, scientists already found life in a near-Martian place: an icy rocky surface of a lava-tube cave.

Hyperactivity in children is linked to poverty and maternal diabetes, according to a first-of-its kind study published in the January issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

Researchers said Tuesday that the planet, named Kepler-20f, with a radius only 3 percent larger than the Earth and was found in a five-planet solar system that challenges models of how planets form.

Planets orbiting red dwarf stars may have a habitable zone 10-30 percent further away from the star than previously calculated, according to scientists.

On the heels of the announcement of the first-confirmed Earth-like planet, NASA officials plan Tuesday to announce new discoveries from the founding Kepler mission.

Facebook users lead happier, more fulfilled lives the more they post, giving proof that life seems greener on the other side of the digital realm, too, according to a new survey.