Animals are still getting COVID-19, but they seem to be more protected against Omicron than humans are. Researchers have some ideas why.

Following a spate of predator attacks on hikers and park rangers in the US, Ally Hirschlag investigates why animals attack humans in the wild. Keri Bergere was on a Saturday afternoon bike ride ...

Viruses are finely tuned to their hosts, but mutations can and have produced strains that can jump from animals into humans. Sara Sawyer, a virologist at the BioFrontiers Institute of the ...

Many mouse trials are conducted on young, male animals with untested immune systems, whereas the prospective human patients may be both male and female, of all ages, with multiple concurrent diseases.

Wherever it is, it must be the place where synurbization—the process of wildlife adapting to urban environments—originated.. Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic ...

As the reach for human cruelty expands, we have a moral obligation to create justice for animals, writes Martha C. Nussbaum.