It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

It is not a real surprise that the smallest birds in the world belong to the family Trochilidae, commonly known as hummingbirds. However, even within the hummingbird family, there are large ...

Often dismissed as pests, rats have long been misunderstood. But the African giant pouched rat (Cricetomys ansorgei), the world’s longest, is challenging that perception. With its intelligence and ...

Smithfield hasn't been hurt by the bird flu outbreak that has disrupted the egg and poultry businesses over the past three years, but now that the virus has started infecting dairy cattle the ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

The recent resignation of Nombasa Tsengwa as CEO of Exxaro is not a good look for the company. Tsengwa resigned with immediate effect from her position on Thursday, 6 February, after failing to ...

Wild birds are hard to control on farms, where a feed trough filled with grain can look like a giant birdfeeder. Gene sequencing of these D1.1 viruses has found a mutation that helps the virus ...

There are over 10,000 species of birds in the world. Some, like the bumblebee hummingbird, are very small. Others, like the ...

Its peatlands serve as a vital stopover for the birds as they fly from the Balkans to Africa. Bird lure hidden in grass. Photo: Ajdin Kamber Tens of thousands of quails are illegally killed in the ...

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US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial law that allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic minorities ...

The current outbreak stretches back to 2020 when the virus spread widely across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Antarctica. By 2021 and 2022 sea birds along the UK coastline were dying ...