NATURE

The first cub to be born in France startled the first lady by growling at her during the panda's naming ceremony.

Carbon-dioxide can be trapped away by these new plants that Breakthrough Prize winning biologist Joanne Chory has created in her lab.

The video, dubbed "Transient", was recorded with the help of a Phantom Flex 4K camera.

WWF has tagged Amazon river dolphins in order to understand how they live, move, and how human-made threats like gold mining affect their health.

The raging debate of whether sea sponges or comb jellies kicked off animal life has been settled using statistics.

Apart from differences caused by geography and origin, most languages follow a common pattern because they need to be simple, yet effective.

The countries involved have agreed that before fishing takes place, they will establish appropriate measures for conservation and management.

Signals of changes in Earth's gravitational field reach seismic monitoring stations minutes earlier and could make a big difference in saving lives.

The Amur Leopard is listed as a critically endangered species. There are fewer than 100 individuals left in the wild.

Although we think of man as having negative impacts on wildlife, several cats species use paths to rapidly move around the rainforest.

Grey cells in dogs outnumber not just small cats, they also have more brain capacity than lions, hyenas and bears.

Internet becomes haven for climate-denial blogs and websites which downplay or deny existence of man-made global warming despite scientific consensus.

The male cheetahs most probably wanted to see if the female had gone into estrus and was ready to reproduce.

The Mariana snailfish lives can be found in the Mariana Trench – the deepest part of the world's oceans.

Sand and gravel account for the largest volume of any solid material extracted globally, according to research.

Millions of tonnes of ash spewed into atmosphere can severely reduce Earth's temperatures.

Scientists have identified 112 "robust source reefs" that could repopulate and even repair the damage that the Great Barrier Reef has suffered.

Science can be a useful tool when exploring the legends of mythical creatures, according to researchers.

New insights have allowed researchers to create the most accurate depiction of any dinosaur to date.

Clay Tall Stories used a drone to capture footage of an orca feeding on stingray in New Zealand's Ruby Bay. He went back the next day to find dead stingrays littering the beach.

Environmental champion, who was first person to walk to both poles, uses Antarctic trek as green wake-up call.

Researchers do not know why US beaches are being invaded by millions of pink sea blobs, known as pyrosomes.

Earthworms, often referred to as farmer's friends, are vital to a garden ecosystem if humans ever plan to grow food on Mars.

The footage was made available by Sea Shepherd following a five-year legal battle against the Australian government which was trying to block its release.

In the last 500 years, volcanoes have caused an estimated 274,000 deaths, according to scientific research.

Exterminator and beekeeper Jules Verret used a GoPro to capture his removal of a massive hornets' nest on camera. The dismantled nest was more than double his body length.

Dating puts the microfossils to around the time the Earth's atmosphere started to get increasingly oxygen-rich, kick-starting life.

Geologist Naresh Ghose found the prokaryote, a tiny, single celled organism, in shale underlying volcanic rock in the Gwalior basin of the Bundelkhand region near Jhansi.

The pachyderm was crossing a highway in India's Bengal state when the 40-year-old got out of his car to take pictures of it.