Companies are launching vaccine trials at an unprecedented pace, but some are worried about the trade-offs between speed and safety.
Birds bred in captivity have been freed. Biologists are waiting to see whether they will mate with the wild species.
Two studios — MacGillivray Freeman and Giant Screen films — now offer educational documentaries for rent or for free.
The animal's name, Adalatherium, roughly translates as "crazy beast" in honor of its odd traits.
A "canine surveillance" corps could offer a noninvasive, four-legged method to screen people in airports, businesses or hospitals, researchers say.
As climate warms, tropical ailment plagues wild herd with debilitating lesions. Vets began using an experimental vaccine last year that seems to be protecting the animals.
“Historical environmental injustices have really weakened people’s ability to use knowledge they’ve accumulated over generations,” a co-author says.
Isolate the cat? Clorox the dog? We asked experts about the connections between pets, wildlife and the coronavirus.
The Wild Animal Sanctuary, which relocated the 39 tigers to sprawling enclosures on the Colorado prairie, has lost both food and financial donations during the coronavirus pandemic.
PBS documentary explores Norman Borlaug’s Green Revolution, which helped feed the starving developing world but also caused ecological problems.
Primate sanctuaries in Africa are struggling to keep their operations afloat -- and keep the virus away from their animals, which could be susceptible to it.
A CT scan performed just a few hours after Keith Redding showed up at the emergency room showed dead cells and viral particles scattered across his lungs like bits of broken glass.
Biologists are working to come up with ways to grow office complexes and homes from a type of cyanobacteria that flourishes in oceans.
Hundreds of dogs being groomed to guide people with disabilities are living in foster homes — safe and happy, but unable to do in-public training critical to their work.
If humans pass the virus to bats, it could threaten fragile populations or create a new reservoir for the pathogen.
The directors of the Netflix hit have been criticized for glossing over animal abuse. They say the rivalry-revenge story is meant to reveal "horrible suffering and exploitation of these cats."
California museum’s site brings together on-demand videos, activities and interactive live shows for viewers of all ages.
The global wildlife trade, agricultural intensification, deforestation and urbanization are bringing people closer to animals, giving their viruses more of what they need to infect us: opportunity.
One of the many cruelties of the covid-19 outbreak: In a time when we most need the comfort of closeness, it forces us apart. But decades of research suggests that kinship, even from a distance, can be a powerful balm.
For April, the ultrabright Venus dazzles you in the western heavens after dusk
