The US recently approved clinical trials for pig kidney transplants, opening the door to the potential use of other organs ...

With more than 100,000 Americans waiting on a new organ, xenotransplantation is a leading example of how editing animals ...

A month ago, avian influenza, or bird flu, was found in a commercial duck farm on Long Island, leading to the deaths of over 100,000 birds. The discovery, coming shortly after the disease was found in ...

Porton Down, Britain's top secret military research centre, is just a few miles away from where Sergei Skripal and his ...

A mutation of bird flu virus, which is able to enhance the ability of the infection to infect mammals, has been identified in Sakhalin region of the Russian Federation, reports Rospotrebnadzor.

In January, the German state of Brandenburg, which surrounds Berlin, halted all animal transport following an outbreak of ...

The city of Kyle, Texas, had an "increased presence" of feral hogs in Dec. 2024, and they are still dealing with the invasive ...

In Greek mythology, a chimera is a grotesque hybrid. But chimeras are not just tales. Here's how some scientists have been ...

What if dogs were more than just “man’s best friend?”That’s an over-simplified version of the question being asked by animal ...

In Jamestown, Tennessee, Odd Man Inn Animal Refuge is a sanctuary that’s part rescue, part education center, and entirely devoted to pigs.

Selective breeding over the past century has shortened and flattened the snouts of German domestic pigs. Though not an ...