Tag: Zoology/Veterinary Science

Credit: Photo courtesy UW Urban Canid Project CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- As foxes and coyotes adapt to urban landscapes, the potential ...

Identifying vulnerabilities to outbreaks of Ebola and Lassa fever is possible following new research from the University of Surrey and ...

Scientists have used gene-editing techniques to stop the bird flu virus from spreading in chicken cells grown in the lab. ...

An international team of researchers has a plan to keep New Guinea's frogs safe from the species-destroying chytrid fungusCredit: Stephen ...

Credit: Judith Burkart The bigger the brain in relation to body size, the more intelligent a living organism is. This ...

Credit: Rob Wallace/WCS In an effort to better protect the world's last ecologically intact ecosystems, researchers developed a new metric ...

Credit: A. Vila/WCS The use of satellite telemetry in conservation is entering a "golden age," and is now being used ...

A nonlethal dose of insecticide clothianidin can reduce honeybees' life span by half; once combined with the fungicide pyraclostrobin, it ...

Researchers have combined two separate computer models to identify areas at highest risk for outbreaks of lumpy skin disease virus ...

Birds have a notion of 'green' versus 'blue,' but the line between them is fuzzy compared to the red-orange range. ...

A new study has revealed a range of factors that cause a variation in predation by magpies on farmland songbirds. ...

Credit: Kathelijne Koops Chimpanzees have a mainly vegetarian diet, but do occasionally eat meat. Researchers at the University of Zurich ...

Mammals have adapted to live in the darkest of caves and the deepest oceans, and from the highest mountains to ...

Could some chimpanzees' crustacean crave yield clues about human evolution?Credit: Kyoto University/Kathelijne Koops Kyoto, Japan -- Why do we fish? ...