Bird flu has already sent egg prices soaring, and now, it might be driving up flu case numbers in Iowa — not by making people sicker, but by prompting more testing. According to data from the Iowa ...

Though sightings in Colorado are rare, these animals are crucial to the ecosystem as they help control populations of small ...

What happens when the biodiversity witnessed by one generation fades into memory the next? These questions are crossroads at which modern societies, including the U.S., now find themselves. And for ...

Until last week, all bird flu in dairy herds had been identified as the B3.13 variant, which was believed to have come from wild birds in late 2023 or early 2024. The USDA confirmed the virus's ...

Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...

Maryland’s natural resources department is incentivizing commercial watermen and charter boat captains to capture blue catfish in order to reduce the abundance of the invasive species in the ...

FDA approves the first clinical trials for pig kidney transplants in humans, testing genetically modified pig organs.

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.

Georgia wildlife officials are urging anglers, boaters, and lake visitors to help prevent the spread of invasive snail ...

The Australian redclaw crayfish, an aggressive crustacean native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea, has been spotted ...

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...