Sheena Goodyear

Scientists have finally proven what Charles Darwin suspected more than a century ago — that a small, innocent-looking flowering plant growing in the rocky mountain crevices of southwestern China is, in fact, a killer.

Mollie the hamster has become something of a star in the running world after his owner, a Dutch physicist, rigged a system to track the critter's movements on the running app Strava.

Jobs Minister Patty Hadju says the $7.5 billion allocated to help workers and employers will give Canadian businesses the time they need to adjust to the new reality and become less reliant on the U.S. as a trade partner.

Conservationists have long been working to keep a rare species of bird from disappearing entirely from the United Kingdom. But any recent success they've had in protecting the Montagu's harrier's British population can largely be attributed to the mating prowess of one male "at the top of his game."

Canadian company Jackpine also behind the viral 'Canada's Not For Sale' hats Before the ink had even dried on U.S.

A U.K. woman is on a mission to convince her government to scrap its tax on sunscreen. Canadian cancer organizations say this country should consider doing the same.

Dawn, fuzzy fat father who likes the taste of rocks, is officially the most popular yellow-bellied marmot in Gothic, Colo. The Fat Marmot Week contest is the brainchild of the Marmot Project, a long-term research initiative whose future hangs in the balance amid U.S. funding cuts.

At the age of 91, Dale Sanders — known on the trails as "Grey Beard" — is once again the oldest hiker to complete the Appalachian Trail.

A team of University of Waterloo scientists won this year's Ig Nobel Physics Prize for their "theoretical and experimental attempts to design a splash-free urinal."

On March 21, 1960, South African police opened fire on unarmed anti-apartheid protesters, killing dozens of men, women and children. More than six decades later, survivors and descendants of victims of the Sharpeville massacre are seeking to overturn an apartheid-era law that has barred them from seeking reparations.