New research now shows that mice also do this - at least to fellow mice that they know, sometimes even offering an effective form of first aid. For some time now, there have been reports that some ...

The virus, unearthed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission, though the ...

A new book offers an unsettling account of human exceptionalism and shows that the unique ways we gamble with risks and move ...

Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading "fairly quickly" across the wild and domestic bird populations and, now, among ...

Mosquitoes cause around a million deaths per year. So, scientists are coming up with genetic engineering techniques that ...

Meet Snowflake, the only albino gorilla on earth. He lived an amazing life with his many children at the Barcelona Zoo.

An infectious disease specialist at Tower Health talks about how many cases of bird flu doctors are seeing in people in ...

More than five years on, studies suggest the animal is the most likely culprit, but other candidates haven't been ruled out.

Among those most bewildered and frightened by a coast-to-coast convulsion of violence linked to a cultlike group of hardcore ...

The show, narrated by Tom Hanks, offers glimpses of critters large and small. And capturing that footage is no small feat.

Researchers measured the levels of cortisol, the hormone associated with stress levels, in a group of dogs scheduled for ...

Even after mastering a task, humans and animals continue experimenting with alternative approaches, a new study finds.