The effort by the Emerging & Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC), one of several U of T institutional strategic initiatives , supports five projects that aim to understand the fundamental biology of ...

In 2019, scientists rediscovered a species of miniature deer long lost to science within the dry coastal forests of southern ...

New research reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of-paradise. The study, based on specimens collected since the 1800s, finds biofluorescence in 37 of the ...

Bird keepers in Darlington have been warned about following new restrictions to tackle bird flu. In response to the recent reports of bird flu cases across the UK, the Animal and Plant Health Agency ...

Bird Mimicry Bird that mimic other birds are the cover artists of the bird world, borrowing sounds and tunes from other birds to use as their own. Some mimicry bird species—mockingbirds, thrashers and ...

A small but growing number of house cats have gotten sick from H5N1, the bird flu strain driving the U.S. outbreak, after eating raw food or drinking unpasteurized milk. Some of those cats died.

Wisconsin Public Radio Although avian flu continues to spread among birds around the country, it has not yet established a ...

Valdivia, Chile, has become the first Latin American city to be designated as a Wetland City by the Ramsar Convention.

Watch your backyard come to life as amazing owl species swoop through the night skies. Get to know the types of owls you ...

Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, commissioner of public health for the city of Boston, wrote in a statement to The Daily Free Press that although bird flu rarely affects humans, those who handle birds are at ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Earth’s magnetic field is detected by species across the animal kingdom, but new research suggests that sea turtles may be ...