Rome - An increasing number of domestic animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and chickens are becoming extinct, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation warned on Tuesday. Every week the world was ...

Before giant waves slammed into Sri Lanka and India coastlines ten days ago, wild and domestic animals seemed to know what was about to happen and fled to safety. According to eyewitness accounts ...

Close on the heels of the world’s first gene-edited rice, scientists at the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural ...

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

In general, issues with wildlife (and their solutions) are, no pun intended, wildly different from issues (and their solutions) with domestic animals. I don’t see too much overlap in them.” ...

The Gs/Gd lineage of highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza viruses—including H5N1—has rapidly evolved, spreading globally and ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month ...

Whether you are lucky enough to have a cat companion or must merely live this experience vicariously through cat videos, ...

The edited sheep contains no foreign DNA, distinguishing it from transgenic organisms and paving the way for regulatory ...

Whether one is fortunate enough to have a cat friend or must enjoy the experience vicariously through cat videos, Felis catus ...

In our study we used the MAFIA (macrophage Fas-induced apoptosis) transgenic mouse line ... an unanticipated effect on the health of the animal. In summary, our research indicates that the ...

Two studies of ancient felines find that cats were likely domesticated in Egypt or other regions in North Africa — and moved ...