An ongoing outbreak of salmonella infections in eight provinces is linked to snakes and rodents used to feed them, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. As of March 19, …
Amir Nizar Zuabi remembers looking up as a child and seeing so many birds that the sky would literally darken. The London-based Palestinian artist and playwright grew up in East …
China plans to send a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its longstanding gesture of friendship toward the United States after a recalling nearly all …
Wildlife officials in Alaska have confirmed the first known case of a polar bear that died from avian flu — highlighting growing concerns about the H5N1 strain’s potential spread among northern …
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The Current11:34A hand-drawn map with no people, but 1,642 free-roaming animals Read Transcribed Audio Artist Anton Thomas wanted to draw a “world map of nature” that would showcase the many …
As It Happens6:28Why do these mosquitos keep perching on the nostrils of frogs who want to eat them? John Gould had been snapping pictures of mosquitoes on frogs for years …
Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are killed annually by malaria and other diseases spread through the bite of mosquitoes, insects that date back to the age of dinosaurs. All …
Scientists have rediscovered a long-lost species of mammal described as having the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an anteater and the feet of a mole, in Indonesia’s Cyclops …
For decades, they were cuddly emblems of global co-operation. Now, they’re a bamboo-munching testament to a more turbulent world. Beloved giant pandas that came to define the zoo in the …