Bird flu is decimating wildlife around the world and is now spreading in cows. In the handful of human cases seen so far it has been extremely deadly.

Wildfires are becoming more common in Southern California – where horse riding is a popular pastime. So what happens to horses when disaster hits?

Humpback whales have been making a conservation comeback – but warming seas are putting their recovery at risk.

Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this native species return for good?

The photo of two men standing on a mountain of bison skulls is well known as a symbol of hunting during colonisation of the US. But there's a more sinister story that lies behind it.

Teaching rats to drive a tiny car around a laboratory taught scientists a lot about the benefits of anticipating the joy brought by the things we love.

In 1969, a bold plan to restore Vermont's wild turkeys began with a handful of net-trapped birds from New York. What did Vermont get right?

Blind spiders and whip scorpions, the future of climate change, photosynthesis in the dark – here's what the deepest places on Earth can reveal about life and the universe.