By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

As the pink dolphins glided above gentle waves, their pale pink bodies were clearly visible against the grey-blue surface of the water.

At the centre of a long-running legal battle is the sloth bear, a Schedule I species, endemic to the Indian subcontinent, now ...

In 2025, federal legislation was finally introduced by Labor to stop live sheep exports (to take effect in 2028), but the ...

Tucked between towering mountains and the sparkling Pacific Ocean, Sitka, Alaska offers a rare combination of breathtaking beauty and small-town tranquility that makes the modern rat race seem like a ...

The most alarming discovery from the new data is the presence of cetacean morbillivirus in the high Arctic. The virus was ...

In many parts of the U.S., it’s legal to own animals that most people only ever see in the wild or at the zoo. These include everything from large predators to rainforest species with very specific ...

A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously thought to be a member of a genus called Australopithecus – but ...

Indeed, volunteers and scientists have noted that one of the places where walruses most often stop for long periods is Svalbard. This is a thin strip of land between Norway and the North Pole. So, for ...

The volcanic eruption started a chain of events that led to the Black Death plague spreading across Europe, researchers say.

A quick explainer on what the union government says in comparison to what peer-reviewed research says about the Aravallis ...

Death Valley’s wildlife beats the odds in a place defined by extremes. The hottest, driest, and lowest landscape in the ...