Documentary Empire of Bats nails the coffin shut on vampire bat myths

Residents of a street in Toronto's Leaside neighbourhood say they're fighting a rat infestation brought on by a neighbour who refuses to stop feeding wildlife in her backyard.

Hurricane Melissa’s Category 5 winds tore into western Jamaica Tuesday morning, marking one of the most powerful Atlantic landfalls ever recorded. CBC’s Johanna Wagstaffe looks at how Melissa may be part of a new hurricane era: storms fuelled by record-warm seas and slowed by a shifting jet stream.

Millions of years ago, a pony-sized, hornless rhino wandered through the woods and munched on leaves in what is now northern Nunavut. A new study identities it as a new species, and offers an intriguing explanation for how it got there.

It’s been more than 60 million years since duck-billed dinosaurs roamed around what is now known as western North America. Or, more accurately, since they clomped around. On their hoofs. 

The Alberta government says one grizzly bear has been killed by a member of the Wildlife Management Responder Network, marking the first bear "lethally removed" since that program was implemented last summer.

Landowners in Wine Harbour are speaking up for the first time against the cabinet decision on whale sanctuary project.

Joe Pendry used his experience as a boxer to fight for his life when a mother grizzly attacked and severely injured him in B.C.'s East Kootenay region earlier this month.

For Mountain View County beekeepers Simone and Steven Dold, bears trying to steal from their hives is just "one of the realities" of living in the rural Alberta community of Bearberry.

A Nova Scotia man who fishes in the Minas Basin says he routinely sees the harm that faulty culverts cause fish.

University of Toronto has created an emergency fund to support its researchers who are facing unexpected losses in funding due to cuts and policy changes at U.S. federal research agencies.

Three wolves were spotted in Fort McPherson in October. One was shot and killed this week. The N.W.T. Department of Environment and Climate Change is encouraging residents to leash their pets, vaccinate their dogs, and not to store food outside.

Local resident Kevin Geist and his 11-year-old son Andreas discovered the skull two summers ago, spotting a strange black rock along the river's shoreline in the fossil-rich Peace region.

Earthquakes Canada has confirmed that a magnitude 3.5 earthquake felt widely across Greater Sudbury Friday morning was mining induced.

Acadia University will soon be home to the first tick-breeding research centre in Canada. The team will test repellents and research tick-borne diseases, but it will also breed thousands of the pests to send to researchers around the world.

There’s been a new comet in the sky over the past few weeks, but now is the prime time to see it for yourself.

With over 200 different certifications to her name, Phoebe the pug could — in theory — safely drive a truck, steer a boat and operate a forklift, to name a few.

An Islander discovered a large fossil footprint along the shores of P.E.I.'s Hillsborough Bay. It's believed to date back to the Permian Period, before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and experts say it may belong to a Pareiasaur.

CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks asked some of Canada’s leading scientists to imagine what the next half-century might bring. The science show reached a milestone this month: 50 years on the air.

The Nova Scotia government has given its approval to granting a lease for more than 80 hectares of land and water on the province’s Eastern Shore to a group that wants to create North America’s first whale sanctuary.