Studying the early development of human embryos is challenging due to ethical constraints and technical difficulties.

Pigs are helping to reintroduce native trees to a forest. Volunteers have been taking part in a restoration project at Hardknott Forest, in the Lake District, to replace non-native trees with a ...

Biosecurity policies may seem onerous and expensive – but they are working to prevent new species from pushing native species ...

The five species are nutria, northern snakehead, green iguana, invasive carp, and wild boar, also known as feral hogs or wild ...

Against this backdrop, The Mirror is reporting Britain's first known instance of 'reverse zoonosis' in which human flu has ...

Minecraft’s Spring to Life update brought new textures for passive farm mobs, but left out sheep, despite them being the most ...

At the moment, this particular outbreak doesn’t seem to have spread into any other pigs. And “spillover” infections on farms, where a virus from one species turns up in another, are nothing new. Back ...

analyses showed that key genes for the development of the embryo's first cell layers are expressed similarly in both species. Unlike other common laboratory animals, such as mice, guinea pigs have ...

Revivicor focuses on producing genetically modified pig organs for transplantation into humans. Revivicor has developed genetically modified pigs to produce organs compatible with the human body, ...

The nominator believes the title 'Feral pigs' is adequate. To date the list of key threatening processes has included the whole process attributable to a feral species, rather than just the species ...

President Trump’s zest for rapidly shrinking the government is triggering anxiety about conservation priorities that have ...

Residents discovered a group of feral pigs in the Cairngorms, Scotland, believed to have been dumped illegally and recklessly ...