Domestication

Cats sometimes catch and leave a "gift" for their humans. But why do cats give us dead mice, birds or other prey?

Dyeing Easter eggs this year might be more difficult because of high prices. We asked an economist why the cost soared.

Great bustards may have been eaten when humans buried their dead about 15,000 years ago.

Think you know cats and dogs? Take this fun cat and dog trivia quiz to test your knowledge about two of America's...

This ancient people lived in the Sahara when it was a much more welcoming environment.

How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? H5N1 influenza's origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way for the outbreak we're seeing today.

One leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full

Primates eat bitter bark to kill parasites, while sparrows use cigarette butts to keep ticks off their chicks. Could the wisdom of wildlife be the next frontier in medicine?

This annotated bibliography samples scholarship on the rich—and difficult—history of natural history.

Ancient peoples of Latin America saved the fleshy fruits from extinction and gradually made them tastier.

With egg prices soaring, the US is considering vaccinating laying chickens, which have been hit particularly hard by the avian influenza outbreak.

This is a MedPage Today story. More than 80 domestic cats, among many other types of mammals, have been confirmed to have had bird flu since 2022 -- generally barn cats that lived on dairy farms, as well as feral cats and pets that spend time outdoors and likely caught it by hunting diseased rodents or wild birds. Now, a small but growing number of house cats have gotten sick from H5N1, the bird flu strain…

Key Takeaways: There were 1.5 billion cattle on Earth in 2022 – that's more cattle than there are people in any single country right now; Cattle production emits greenhouse gases both through enteric fermentation (i.e.,

An ongoing bird flu epidemic has forced farmers to kill millions of egg-laying hens, leading to a serious shortage.

Europe consumes a lot of milk, which requires many calves to be born. But nobody wants them. They are badly treated, or simply killed. The organic sector, meanwhile, is resisting an easy technological fix.

Clinicians should also ask about animal exposure

'In the last 50 years, we have lost 73 percent of the world's wildlife.'

Novel hunting behavior may have emerged alongside a marked increase in the local vole population this summer.

Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists hope things will be different