A new method of tracking the dietary habits and contaminant exposure of animals in Arctic marine ecosystems is providing critical insights as climate change reshapes the region's food web.

Puffins are enchanting little seabirds. Here are 9 fascinating facts about puffins and their marvellous, yet sometimes ...

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 ...

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

If you’re ready to follow in the footsteps of explorers who braved frozen waters, untamed wilderness and islands home to wildlife found nowhere else in the ... Norway’s Svalbard archipelago and ...

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 Iceland to the island of Eldey. They were searching for great auks: black and ...

The RSPCA receives on average 13 phone calls a day about animals found injured, trapped or dead from discarded litter. And over 25 per cent of “animal interactions” with litter result in death, a ...