When it comes to owning an exotic animal as a household pet, few states are as lenient as Texas. In fact, the Lone Star State ...

There were only 10 reported cases of Guinea worm infections confined to three countries in 2025, a historic low announced ...

It’s a phenomenon that was called the Homogenocene even before a similar term growing in popularity, the Anthropocene, was ...

Changes to land use can directly heighten the risk of diseases spreading from animals to humans, new University of ...

All the more reason to do everything we can to care for the world around us today.

When Houssein Rayaleh received a WhatsApp message from a local ecotourism guide showing footage of a lioness in Djibouti, he ...

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Donkeys entered Namibia’s central north relatively late, and only became common in the 1920s and 1930s. Their presence across ...

Nipah is a highly lethal virus that causes severe illness with a high fatality rate, and there are currently no approved vaccines or specific treatments. Scientists are increasingly seeing it as a ...

Well, not now – but a paper published in Genome Biology in 2006 concluded that after humans and chimpanzees cleaved from each other around 6 million years ago, they continued to interbreed for at ...

From powerful birds of prey to tiny songbirds, and blind snakes to miniscule flies, an impressive range of species have ...

Play is important for animals in captivity, both as an indicator of their emotional states and as a contributor to their long ...