Scientists express concern over the possibility of the deadly and incurable 'zombie deer' disease affecting humans. The ...

UK ministers may lift a ban introduced during the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis on the use of animal remains ...

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For decades, common scientific knowledge has held that homo sapiens—human beings as we know them today—evolved in Africa some 200,000 years ago. But a new fossil discovery in another part of ...

Glacier FarmMedia—The Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association is emphasizing the importance of biosecurity and record keeping after a positive case of bovine tuberculosis was traced to a cattle herd in ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals interbred over a sustained period of around 7000 years, probably in the eastern Mediterranean. That is according to two studies that trace how these two hominins ...

The Scottish government have confirmed a single case of atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE ... health and the animal has not entered the human food chain, according to the Scottish ...