The National Zoological Garden in Pretoria has welcomed three blacktip reef sharks and 220 marine fish, enhancing its ...

For the first time since India's independence, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has received approval from the Maharashtra Urban Development (UD) Department to turn a restricted leisure ...

As the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through American cattle herds — a first for the U.S. — doctors and veterinarians are fearful that if the virus is left unchecked ...

Aaron Terr writes that “the government can’t punish the press for refusing to parrot its preferred language” (“First Amendment Prevails in Trump vs. the AP,” Letters, April 14).

“Woodpeckers and Flickers are protected under the North American Migratory Bird Act. So in Canada this is managed at a federal level by Environment Canada,” explained Nicholas ...

The Trump administration will allow unintentional bird killings under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and will cancel a rulemaking that would have enhanced bird protections from oil and gas operations.

Some species, like the Crystal Wrasse, are also necessary to complete certain missions. However, it can be hard to find and catch them if you don't have adequate information about the creature.

As spring weather sets in, fears of a bird flu pandemic have not materialized, and there is less cause for worry than there was in the winter. Experts say the short-term risk of a pandemic is low ...

What was the origin story for this paper? I noticed that many of your previous papers cover the gray vireo, which your new study quantifies as a “drab,” understudied bird. I think the impetus of the ...

Then, in March, H5N1 avian flu was diagnosed as the cause of the illness. It was unheard of for cows to get bird flu, so the diagnosis was not suspected at first. The epidemic spread rapidly ...