Scientists were recently greeted with a most unexpected surprise when a polar bear mother and her cub were walking near Churchill in mid-November when scientists witnessed the mother adopt a second cub, marking just the 13th such case of cub adoption within the western Hudson Bay study population of northeastern Manitoba.

After nearly 50 years living on a kitchen floor in New Jersey and eating a diet of mainly cat food, Rockalina the turtle was in rough shape. But after 11 months of rehabilitation, she's thriving — and she even has an itty-bitty new friend.

It may still be an uncomfortable subject for some, but periods are a real thing that people need to manage. But what do astronauts do in space? Well, they have some options, but now they may have one more.

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen talks to Bob McDonald about the final preparations for his 10-day mission around the moon, where Hansen and his crewmates may become the first humans to see entirety of the Earth and moon, in one view

Researchers from Dalhousie University were trying to study how northern resident orcas find salmon to eat, but they ended up finding an unexpected symbiosis with another species — dolphins.

Baby, it’s cold outside — but it’s worth putting on that heavy winter coat, scarf and boots and heading out for one of the best meteor showers of the year: the Geminids.

The Spruce City Wildlife Association has reconnected a side channel at Cottonwood Island Park to the Nechako River, restoring a critical fish habitat and preventing fish from being trapped and left to die during periods of low water.

Thirteen years after an attempted escape from an IKEA parking lot, Darwin the monkey has been living out his life at Storybook Primate Sanctuary, the only one of its kind in Canada. He may be shy, but volunteers say he is thriving.

Another mass die-off of Canada geese has been found near Winnipeg, this time north of the city.

Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens staff initially dismissed a suggestion by a visitor that their 40-year-old ginkgo tree had suddenly started producing stinky seeds.

A remote camera on Hawaii's erupting Kīlauea volcano captured the moment a lava fountain engulfed it and knocked it offline on Saturday. Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, has been erupting intermittently since Dec. 23, 2024.

The latest earthquake in Japan on Dec. 8, which triggered widespread shaking and tsunami alerts, served as another clear example of the nation’s world-leading earthquake response efforts. CBC’s Johanna Wagstaffe explores the factors that make Japan stand out and the lessons other earthquake-prone countries can learn from their approach.

Long before modern billionaires threw lavish parties at sea on their superyachts, the wealthy elite of ancient Egypt traversed the river Nile in luxury on their pleasure barges. Now, for the first time, archeologists believe they have unearthed one of those opulent vessels of yore from beneath the sediment off the coast of Alexandria.

Conservation groups are raising concerns as the City of Winnipeg considers changing a development bylaw designed to help save birds from fatal window strikes.

This could be an unusually good year to spot snowy owls in southern Canada. Here's why, and how to see these Arctic visitors without disturbing them.

Wild boars have been declared "a pest in all circumstances" by the Alberta government effective Dec. 1, meaning new restrictions have been placed on keeping them in captivity and hunting them in the wild.

After Canada announced Tuesday it wouldn’t list the American eel under the Species at Risk Act, some First Nations people with cultural and spiritual ties to the species are questioning the decision. 

Bob's Blog: A project designed to track thousands of animals from space, which was halted due to the Russia-Ukraine war, has just returned to space better than ever.

Dozens of Canada geese are dead in Niverville as a result of a confirmed avian flu outbreak.