Without arctic sea ice to hunt on, 60 polar bears have gathered at a Russian village in search of food—and this isn't an anomaly.

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The puppy was discovered in an Australian backyard with talon marks in its back. Recently, DNA tests revealed that Wandi is really a purebred alpine dingo—an endangered subspecies.
Vincent Van Goat, Selena Goatmez, and more very hungry goats cleared flammable brush in the area earlier this year.
The thief—or thieves—stole the one-ton boulder from the side of the road in Prescott National Forest roughly two weeks ago.
More than 40 pets moved from shelters in Sonoma County, California are in need of new homes as wildfires rage across the state.
Even though there are no people living on Mullion Island off Cornwall in England, rubber bands turn up there by the thousands. Now researchers think they know why.
Unless you want to start a boxing match with kangaroos, don’t steal pebbles from Australia's Uluru formation.
At Full Grown farm in Derbyshire, England, trees are gently manipulated over years to create one-of-a-kind furniture pieces that are both beautiful and sustainable.
Your smartphone is the window to all the knowledge in the world—and these apps will help you unlock it.
The Venus flytrap is a favorite houseplant, but its ubiquity hides a world of threats. Now, some scientists think they have a solution for saving it.
Doll's Head Trail in Atlanta's Constitution Lakes Park doubles as a found art exhibit—but the pieces on display are much creepier than what you'd find in a normal museum.
Tira the polka-dotted zebra foal likely has pseudomelanism, a rare genetic condition that makes stripes appear as white spots.
A genetic analysis of the waters of Loch Ness found an unusually high amount of eel DNA, indicating that Nessie may not be an elusive plesiosaur after all.
When Hurricane Dorian approached the Outer Banks in North Carolina, the wild horses there knew exactly what to do to survive.
Bob Ross made a living painting “happy little trees,” but in Michigan, his legacy has been transferred from the canvas to real-life happy trees in nature.
Feeling frustrated and powerless while the Amazon fires rage on in Brazil? Here’s what you can do from afar.
During autumn, the leaves of many of our deciduous trees change color before falling off and dying. Sad, right? Actually, it's quite beautiful.
Joy Ryan had never seen mountains or the ocean before her grandson invited her on a camping trip. It would be the first of many.
After Vittles the raccoon suffered a brain injury, she couldn't support herself. Now she's walking again with the help of a custom wheelchair.
The furry, mostly harmless creatures are looking for love—and hoping their mates don’t eat them after they find it.
Henry David Thoreau’s account of his time in the woods is much more than just fodder for motivational posters—it’s a work of transcendentalist philosophy that shaped how people see the natural world today.
With their amazing sense of smell and boundless energy, some shelter dogs are the perfect candidates for tracking and protecting endangered species.