3+ hour, 1+ min ago  (112+ words) CBC 'It's extremely rare': tropical dolphins spotted near Vancouver Island The long-beaked common dolphin, which is quite uncommon in B.C. waters, was spotted multiple times off Vancouver Island in the past week. Experts say it's a tropical mammal that rarely travels…...

16+ hour, 20+ min ago  (507+ words) It's hard to miss a five-foot-tall bird with bright white plumage. When Calgary birder Jonah O'Brien heard a whooping crane had been seen along a rural road about an hour northeast of the city Tuesday morning, he was quick to…...

20+ hour, 20+ min ago  (639+ words) At the top of a 6,739-metre Andean volcano, where the air is thin, temperatures are almost always below freezing and humans struggle to survive, a tiny leaf-eared mouse has made itself at home — dining on toxic plants. The species, Phyllotis…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (109+ words) CBC UBC researchers equip pigeons with camera backpacks to study bird flight vision Co-researcher Anthony Laspansky, a senior researcher at the Salish Sea Research Centre out of the Northwest Indian College in Bellingham, explains how their findings about pigeons' eye…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (767+ words) Europe’s biggest bat is capable of an impressively athletic feat: snatching birds out of the air and eating them, mid-flight — something a painter seems to have noticed hundreds of years before scientists. Researchers first proved this snacking-while-flying behaviour exists last…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (554+ words) Blanding's turtles, yellow-breasted turtles native to Ontario, have been listed as endangered since 2016 and as a species at risk since 2004. But thankfully, a recent sighting could mean good news for the dwindling reptiles. When reintroduction efforts began in 2012, there were…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (103+ words) CBC Why there are dozens of bird houses around the SMU campus Biology professor Colleen Barber has spent 20 years studying how the European starling—not native to Nova Scotia—has adapted to the province. - Canada-wide nocturnal bird sound migration tracker…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (76+ words) Researchers spent 3 years investigating a spate of attacks that led to the culling of 11 animals Image | A Coyote at Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park, Vancouver Caption: There were an unprecedented 45 coyote attacks on humans between December 2020 and August 2021. (Nathan Lewis)…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (212+ words) Vancouverites are habituated to wildlife in the city. But is that same wildlife habituated to us? That's a question the COVID-19 pandemic answered, as we saw coyotes move more freely into quieter urban parks. A study out of UBC seeks…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (126+ words) CBC Expedition unveils 1st images from Ernest Shackleton’s last ship CBC News has the first images of Quest — a ship once belonging to polar explorer Ernest Shackleton — which has sat at the bottom of the Labrador Sea for…...