The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled.

Analyses of zebrafish meioc mutants revealed that spermatogonial stem cells with low rRNA transcription caused by nucleolar Piwil1 require Meioc to keep Piwil1 in cytoplasm for the upregulation of ...

Half a billion years ago, a strange sea-dwelling creature called Mollisonia symmetrica may have paved the way for modern ...

A newly discovered trove of fossilized footprints provides what may be the first evidence of prehistoric diversity in ...

Most forms of life cannot survive extreme environmental conditions, like excessive temperatures. Likewise, the significant ...

Neanderthals in two nearby caves used different techniques when butchering animal carcasses in what is now Israel, according ...

Scotrail staff were left asking 'what the flock' after a man was captured on CCTV walking his sheep down the platform at busy ...

A die-off last year at St. Paul Island, the first compelling case of fatal saxitoxin poisoning in marine mammals, comes as ...

A former Wallingford animal control officer resigned after she was placed on paid administrative leave for alleged misconduct, according to the town’s animal shelter. A document detailing the ...

According to Mrs Leather, the cost to her business is a loss of 2.6 kg for every infected animal slaughtered which, she said, ...

Rising toxins found in bowhead whales, harvested for subsistence purposes by Alaska Native communities, reveal that ocean warming is causing higher concentrations of algal toxins in Arctic food webs, ...

A beluga whale at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium had a groundbreaking surgery that is poised to change the future of beluga whale care worldwide.