NATURE

Protected nesting site Mullion Island is littered with elastic bands as sea-gulls mistake them for worms.

He is also being investigated for the killing of a tigress that went missing in the Pench Reserve in 2012.

Steve Irwin's family has fulfilled his wish of opening an elephant hospital in Indonesia to help conserve endangered Sumatran elephants.

The Amazon Reef in the Atlantic Ocean is one of the world's largest reefs, but its existence became known only in 2016.

Hurricane Dorian continues the north bound journey along the US east coast, death toll rises in the Bahamas.

Hurricane Dorian has weakened to become a category 3 storm and has stalled in the north of the Bahamas.

There are reports of casualties and damage caused by Hurricane Dorian as storm heads away from the Bahamas.

African elephants can no longer be taken from the wild to be sold to zoos and circuses due to a new CITES law.

18th CITES Conference, Geneva: A two-thirds majority vote was able to to regulate the trade of 18 species of sharks and rays, including Mako sharks.

More than 170 countries are at risk of facing floods, according to the study.

A volcano in Kuchinoerabu Island in the Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan has erupted.

Experts say Hurricane Michael could be a "life-altering event" as 375,000 urged to flee.

Video on social media shows people screaming and fleeing in panic and a mosque among the buildings damaged.

The airport closure began early Friday, causing nearly 450 flights to be cancelled and affecting thousands of travelers.

Researchers spotted tell-tale poop stains in Nasa's existing satellite imagery of the Danger Islands, which led the incredible discovery.

Giant 'mega-colonies' of penguins have been discovered among the remote islands of Antarctica, easing fears their numbers had been in decline for decades due to climate change.

A team of researchers from Harvard University is close to reviving an extinct bird after recreating a near-complete genome of the little bush moa.

Tardigrades are highly resilient creatures are believed to be capable of surviving intense radiation and the vacuum of space.

"There's not much hope in the future", for these penguins, say researchers.

Cross breeding led to ancient elephants adapting and surviving in different regions across the world over time.

The Earth has seen a large number of asteroid visitors lately.

The adage "evolve or die" still holds true for living organisms and scientists have found direct evidence of it working.

This study is the first to suggest that male-to-male competition and female mating choices may have influenced the evolution of proboscis monkeys' nose.

Scientists recently collected over 100 deep sea species off the coast of Australia.

The deep-sea predators were so elusive that it took scientists decades to identify that a new species exists in the Atlantic Ocean.

Evidence that we have entered the Anthropocene epoch has been presented by scientists.

Scientists raced as many as 12 bird species on an enclosed track to understand and relate their locomotive traits to those of long-extinct dinosaurs.

A grey seal found with a yellow frisbee embedded in her neck was released back into the wild after undergoing five months of rehabilitation at an RSPCA centre.

Frankie, short from Frankenkitten, was found with a deformed eye that needed to be removed and an extra set of ears. Now he's found a loving home.