A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.

The Chernobyl exclusion zone has become a magnet for lurid images that seem to show nature warped by radiation, from ...

While dogs are famous for reading human emotions and earning their title as man's best friend, recent studies show they may ...

After humans left Chernobyl, animals stayed behind. Radiation seeped into every cell, damaging DNA and altering how bodies developed. Some animals were born with deformities, tumors, or shortened ...

Wild boars roaming the forests of Bavaria have become the focus of a scientific mystery: in some cases, they carry higher ...

A new study shows that some dogs can learn the names of objects by listening to human conversations without direct training ...

From bomb craters to spoil heaps, whaling stations to war zones, abandoned human landscapes are becoming unexpected ...

From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world. While monitoring the burrow of a rare giant armadillo in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, ...

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

A Russian strike could collapse the internal radiation shelter at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, the plant's director has told AFP. Kyiv has accused Russia of repeatedly ...

A midland painted turtle. Unlike its land cousin the box turtle, painted turtles do not have a hinged bottom shell that closes when the head is pulled in. © Jim ...

During the winter, as the cold nights draw in, many people like to curl up by the fire with a soft blanket and a hot drink to warm their cockles. But wild animals don’t have the luxury of warm houses ...