Puffins are enchanting little seabirds. Here are 9 fascinating facts about puffins and their marvellous, yet sometimes challenging, lives in the wild.

Videos show narwhals using their tusks in several ways, including prodding and flipping a fish. It’s the first reported evidence of the whales playing.

Campaigners at Crustacean Compassion have slammed three of the UK's biggest supermarkets over animal welfare issues and claim ...

PARIS: More than a quarter of our planet's natural "geomorphs" -- animals such as beavers and hippos that, collectively, can ...

The budding scientists collected the tiny water bears in a massive citizen science project that involved almost 30,000 ...

Expedition cruises travel to some of the world's most extraordinary destinations in remote corners of the planet, many of which are only reachable by ship — and some that were once only visited ...

I spent four days learning about biomimicry and how studying polar bear pelts led to solar energy-capturing coats.

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

The sequence contained a promising new genetic tool for modifying DNA, a CRISPR. Editas Medicine, a Massachusetts-based ...

Where some saw an imperfect compromise, other attendees apparently left the talks in disgust. In published reports, for ...

In June 1844, farmers Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson, along with 12 others, made the perilous journey by boat from ...

The state Department of Environmental Protection’s Fish and Wildlife Division removed and found new homes for 25 reptiles, birds and other animals from SeaQuest Woodbridge on Thursday ...