Scientists found that a single gene controls striking corn snake patterns like stripes and blotches. While essential for ...

People with diseases caused by rare mutations have fewer options and poorer prospects than other patients despite rapid ...

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

Stanford University researchers report that ciprofloxacin use drives persistent antibiotic resistance in human gut bacteria, ...

In many animals, skin coloration and its patterns play a crucial role in camouflage, communication, or thermoregulation. In ...

Sugar coatings aren't only for candies; they also help viruses, like the ones that cause COVID-19, hide from their hosts' immune system.

Colossal Biosciences Inc., a genetic engineering company aiming to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth, the dodo and other animals, recently unveiled its so-called “woolly mice.” These mice harbor a ...

RIKEN researchers have demonstrated the protective effects of a specific genetic mutation against Alzheimer's disease in ...

An Indian forest worker, who was suspended after he was seen offering water to a cheetah and her cubs in a viral video, has been restored in his job at the sanctuary. Satyanarayan Gurjar ...

Instability, enforcement gaps and poverty combine to enable the rampant trafficking of cheetah cubs to the Middle East. Cheetah trafficking in the Horn of Africa has reached crisis levels.

The snake, believed to be a red-tailed boa constrictor, is an exotic animal not native to Australia, and despite not being venomous, they pose a significant risk to the native wildlife.