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"Zoonotic spillovers" are expected to rise, with at least 15,000 instances of viruses leaping between species over the next 50 years.

The “living soap opera” of breeding season offers an evolutionary window into group power hierarchies in the wild.

These test-tube cells need food to flourish, and researchers found that fetal bovine serum provided the special sauce.

Taking the lessons I learned in Wiikwemkoong as a child and applying them to my everyday life as an adult has changed my perspective and has allowed me to view the world in a different light, writes Ashley Stefureak.

The proposed law will prevent big game hunters from bringing home body parts of 7,000 species including lions, rhinos, elephants and polar bears.

For the first time, the COVID-19 virus has been detected in Canadian wildlife.

After millions of Quebecers rolled up their sleeves for COVID-19 vaccines, it could soon be zoo animals' turn to get the shot.

Similar scenes have played out across southern B.C. in recent days as the province grapples with an unprecedented storm that flooded Merritt, Princeton, and much of the Fraser Valley under metres of frigid, dirty water.

The day the swamp was drained, Charlotte Dawe grieved for the dead crickets and frogs. "I knew whose side I was on even then."

A Canadian geologist may have found the earliest fossil record of animal life on Earth, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Falling oxygen levels harming already struggling wildlife and drinking water supplies, say scientists.

The focus of world leaders on responding to future outbreaks overlooks the far cheaper and more effective strategy of stopping the spillover of disease from animals to humans in the first place, scientists warn.

Jeanette Heffernan and her partner Katie Sherratt run Tipsy Willow, a sustainable farm in Indian River, Ont.

More than 80 per cent of global farmland, which chews up natural habitat, is used to raise animals for meat.

Weaker sharks are less effective hunters, which can upset the balance of the ecosystem, say the authors of a study into the impacts of hotter oceans.