Calsbeek had yet to kill a deer that season, but in previous years, he told me, a single animal kept his family of four well ...

In a recent study of the contiguous United States, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers found that the risk of disease ...

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Shocking footage captured the moment 40 dogs were rescued from a tiny apartment living in under a foot of feces. The dogs and ...

Outbreaks of H5N1, or highly pathogenic avian influenza — commonly known as bird flu — have been confirmed at a commercial ...

Scientists discovered that river otter droppings contain large numbers of parasites that infect the animals’ prey, indicating that otters may play a significant role in shaping local food webs.

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The owner of a rescued lab dog considers if insights gleaned through animal research are enough to justify the practice.

Thousands of snacks and dietary supplements have been recalled after they were potentially contaminated with animal feces, ...

The claim sounds precise enough to pass as true. Eight spiders a year, eaten while asleep. It’s the kind of fact people insist they picked up in school or heard repeated often enough to trust. The ...

Prof Matyas Liptovszky is a director of Wilder International, and in a voluntary capacity affiliated with the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Great apes are humans’ closest relatives in ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...