New Mexico’s high desert plateaus have also yielded many dinosaur fossils, including various species of tyrannosaurus that roamed the land millions of years ago when it was a tropical rain forest.
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With wavy horns and a sturdy build, the Istrian goat stands proudly on Croatia’s national flag. But in the pastures where the white-furred animal hails from, the breed is almost nowhere to be seen.
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At a Mexico City university campus, researchers are stringing mesh nets between trees, hoping to capture evidence that a rare bat has begun visiting its favorite plants in this metropolis of 9 million.
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Russia announced Wednesday it had registered what it said was the world’s first coronavirus vaccine for animals, describing the step as important to disrupting mutations.
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Finding little support for claims that a citywide ban on fur sales hinders international trade, a federal judge on Tuesday scrapped a lawsuit challenging San Francisco’s prohibition on selling fur coats and clothing.
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A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely,” according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press.
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Federal investigators are stepping in to help figure out why an average of seven Florida manatees are dying each day.
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New research finds that species with certain characteristics are at higher risk for extinction and perform unique functions within their environments.
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A mysterious disease has been killing bald eagles across the southern United States for over 25 years, and scientists believe they’ve finally tracked down the culprit.
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In octopuses two sleep states, color changes pulse across their skin, signaling the possibility that the most intelligent of the cephalopods may even dream.
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Forget dog or cat cafes, Shanghai’s animal cafe scene has expanded to include a wider — and more exotic — kingdom.
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A federal court in Louisiana dismissed Holy Fight Ministries’ suit challenging the state’s cockfighting ban. The group claimed cockfighting is an “essential part of their religious faith,” but the court ruled a “religious belief — no matter how sincerely held — does not act as an absolute shield against generally applicable laws.”
Read moreThe Fish and Wildlife Service must determine whether the northern long-eared bat should be listed as an endangered species within 18 months of completing its Special Status Assessment of it and two other bat species, a federal court in Washington ruled, finding the agency’s proposed timeline to complete the listing was “unreasonable.”
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Researchers studied the link between the koala retrovirus and higher cancer rates among populations in northern Australia.
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Instagram selfies posted under #gorillatrekking reveal an alarming number of tourists shirking important disease prevention guidance for gorillas in the wild.
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Inmates filed troubling reports of pest infestation in the kitchen of an Alameda County jail, but the county says it has passed its health inspections with flying colors.
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World Health Organization investigators on Wednesday visited a research center in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus, with one member saying they’d intended to meet key staff and press them on critical issues.
Read moreA federal court in Alaska refused to block ConocoPhillips from constructing roads and a gravel mine in the National Petroleum Reserve. Environmental groups claimed the construction would harm a critical polar bear habitat, but the Fish and Wildlife Service determined there was only a “minimal possibility” polar bears would be harmed over the 30-year project.
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Kosher slaughterhouses have found new export markets since the European Union’s highest court last month upheld a law in Belgium’s Flanders region that prohibited slaughtering animals without first stunning them into unconsciousness.
Read moreA federal court in North Carolina ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must develop, by March 1, a plan to release captive red wolves into the Red Wolf Recovery Area in the state.
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