When you envision a black bear, you may picture our state’s second largest mammal as being a big, meat-eating killer. Technically, black bears are omnivores. Omnivores eat plants and animals. But did ...

Caper and Katherine are northern tree shrews, small mammals native to Southeast Asian forests who spend their days foraging ...

Global insect invasions are increasing, driven by advances in globalization and technology. This Review discusses the effects of increasing trade and transport on insect invasions worldwide, and ...

LANSING, MI – A Michigan zoo is welcoming two new residents. Potter Park Zoo in Lansing announced Wednesday that two northern ...

Welcome to the world! On Jan. 13, 2025, Potter Park Zoo welcomed two Tupaia belangeri, or northern tree shrew pups, marking this the first successful litter from ...

The Nicobar Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, home to unique species found nowhere else. Long isolated, these islands have ...

Henipaviruses can infect many animals, including bats, horses, monkeys, dogs, cats and even rodents. This means they are more ...

Thousands of carnivorous and rare tropical plants are hidden inside greenhouses on a dusty Hill Country road. For the first ...

Researchers from an Auburn University lab collected the shrew in Camp Hill. Dr. Wendy Hood of the Hood Lab said other researchers have since found that the shrew carried a new henipavirus species that ...

A new species of henipavirus was found in an animal in Camp Hill, Alabama, according to an article by Howard Koplowitz of ...