Animal-rights campaigners PETA have a cracking new wheeze for us all to fret about: we have to cease utilizing ‘human supremacist’ expressions equivalent to ‘grasping pig’ or ‘sneaky rat’ to keep away from offending our furry mates. ...

When civil warfare broke out in Mozambique greater than 40 years in the past, it largely spelled doom for animals in Gorongosa Nationwide Park, a 1,500-square-mile reserve on the ground of the southern finish of the Nice African Rift Valley, within the coronary heart of the nation. Because the decades-long ...

Mass extinctions of land-dwelling animals--including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds -- comply with a cycle of about 27 million years, coinciding with beforehand reported mass extinctions of ocean life, in response to a brand new evaluation.

A brand new statistical mannequin might assist scientists perceive how animals make inferences about whether or not their environment are novel or have not modified sufficient to be regarded a brand new context.

Constantly observing animals with movement sensors may enhance earthquake prediction.

5 years earlier than the novel coronavirus ran rampant all over the world, saiga antelopes from the steppes of Eurasia skilled their very own epidemic.

After weeks of rioting and with legislators of each stripe promising police reform or abolition, New York’s police union boss, Mike O’Meara, took a stand to excoriate lawmakers and the media for treating cops like “thugs.” ...

A workforce of scientists finding out the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has triggered the COVID-19 pandemic, discovered that it was particularly well-suited to leap from animals to people by shapeshifting because it gained the flexibility to contaminate human cells.

Researchers have found a brand new migration sample (or lack of) at Pinnacle Level, a now-submerged area in South Africa. Whereas it was first believed giant omnivores would journey to observe the expansion of vegetation to outlive, our researcher got here to a totally new conclusion by means of finding ...

Geologists have found the primary ancestor on the household tree that accommodates most animals right now, together with people. The wormlike creature, Ikaria wariootia, is the earliest bilaterian, or organism with a back and front, two symmetrical sides, and openings at both finish linked by a intestine. It was present ...