The Chernobyl disaster happened on April 26, 1986. The city of Pripyat was evacuated, but animals remained in the area.

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

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

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

The beloved wildlife presenter, who shot to fame on Castaway on the BBC in 2000, suffered a bout of depression in 2023.

Nearly 250 years ago, on July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. The representatives of ...

A Bill Gates-backed nuclear reactor dubbed “Cowboy Chernobyl” by critics is nearing approval in Wyoming as regulators ...

Kemmerer, Wyoming, could be home to a new kind of nuclear power plant by 2030. While government officials are ...

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

Analysis of woolly rhinoceros DNA recovered from the permafrost-preserved wolf further hints that the Ice Age beasts went ...

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...