1+ week, 6+ day ago   (866+ words) A 9-Foot Python, 754 Ticks, and Hidden Blood Parasites: Nigerian Veterinarians Rescue a Giant Snake on the Brink When a private zoo in Abeokuta, Nigeria, called for veterinary help on 14 February 2020, the patient in question was one of the most imposing…...

10+ hour, 56+ min ago   (652+ words) Cities are among the most demanding environments that animals have ever encountered. Concrete, traffic, artificial light, chemical runoff and constant human disturbance create conditions that differ radically from the habitats in which most species evolved....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (594+ words) For centuries, the narwhal’s long, ivory-colored tusk was treated as evidence of magic. In medieval Europe, these extraordinary teeth were sold as unicorn horns and were believed to neutralize poison, cure disease, and possess supernatural powers. Modern science has removed…...

9+ hour, 39+ min ago   (55+ words) A small piece of paper that changes color as fish and shrimp decay, read by an artificial intelligence that is right more than 98 percent of the time, could soon change how consumers and retailers know when seafood is safe to…...

10+ hour, 16+ min ago   (671+ words) When the tide recedes from a rocky Mediterranean shore, the mussels clinging to the stones simply close their shells and wait. Inside those shells, oxygen levels plummet, carbon dioxide accumulates, and the entire body shifts into a biochemical holding pattern…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (733+ words) Koalas may carry more genetic variation in a crucial first line of immune defence than previously recognised, according to a new study of 413 wild animals sampled across eastern Australia....

22+ min ago   (91+ words) Global agriculture is locked in a widening battle against pests, pathogens, and invasive species, and a sweeping new review argues that artificial intelligence has moved from a promising experiment to the central organizing technology of modern plant health management. Writing…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (540+ words) Bioengineer.org...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (618+ words) Coyotes are becoming an increasingly important signal of how urban growth, fragmented habitats and a warming climate are reshaping wildlife disease....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (808+ words) The giant panda, one of the world’s most intensively protected and closely monitored species, has long been studied through the lens of bamboo diets, habitat corridors, and reproductive biology....