Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories.

Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists ...

Take a journey to Earth's polar regions, where majestic bears and penguins roam wild in their untamed frozen kingdoms.

Every spring, more than 200,000 northern gannets — stocky seabirds with dazzling white feathers — journey to the coast of ...

When you go surfing, you might expect to encounter seagulls, fish or maybe even a shark. So when surfers on an Australian ...

Citizen science programs aboard cruise ships are documenting outbreaks in areas where researchers seldom tread.