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Plants & Animals Aug 19, 2026

Cape Town's caracals expose a hidden rat poison problem for the city's wildlife

Rat poisons used in homes, businesses and on farms are moving into South Africa's wildlife, according to new research from the Urban Caracal Project, a key research and education initiative based in the Institute for Communities ...

Biotechnology Aug 18, 2026

How can AI help identify pain when animals can't tell us they're suffering?

A new AI framework, known as SHIC-XE, has been developed to detect signs of pain in horses from video analysis while providing stable, anatomically consistent explanations for its decisions. The framework was developed by ...

Plants & Animals Aug 18, 2026

An African bat overlooked for two centuries is confirmed in Europe

An African bat whose presence in Sicily had remained an unresolved zoological mystery for almost two centuries has now been documented on Pantelleria Island. A study published in Global Ecology and Conservation reports the ...

Ecology Aug 18, 2026

More than 5,000 little penguins will be vaxxed against bird flu. How will this protect them?

A major push is underway to catch and vaccinate more than 5,000 little penguins in Victoria to protect them against the virulent H5N1 bird flu.

Veterinary medicine Aug 17, 2026

Trace elements offer new clues to mysterious black eye lesions in cats

A distinctive black or dark brown lesion that appears on the eyes of some cats has long puzzled veterinarians. Now, researchers have identified two elements that may help explain what is happening inside the affected cornea.

Plants & Animals Aug 13, 2026

How a mystery kept in London led to the discovery of a new Ecuadorian frog

Scientists from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador officially described Pristimantis milpe, an abundant and widely distributed species that had been confused with another species for more than a century. To solve ...

Plants & Animals Aug 13, 2026

Safe havens protect Australian mammals from invasive predators. Why aren't they working for other animal groups?

Feral cats and foxes now roam across almost all of Australia. These predators are a major reason why many species have been driven to extinction.

Ecology Aug 13, 2026

Climate change decided who ruled as top predator 35 million years ago

An international team of researchers from Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain and the U.S. has reconstructed the evolution of body mass in carnivorous mammals during the Paleogene—a crucial window in the diversification of ...

Environment Aug 13, 2026

Indigenous land restitution empowers communities, but environmental gains require extra support

Charting a better future will require redressing the problems of the past. That's one reason many countries have begun to return dispossessed land to Indigenous peoples. The goal of Indigenous land restitution is to empower ...

Biotechnology Aug 12, 2026

Human clinicians outperform AI stethoscope in diagnosing pet heart problems

Fourth-year veterinary students matched—and experienced clinicians outperformed—an AI-enabled digital stethoscope in diagnosing heart murmurs and arrhythmias in cats and dogs, according to a new study from North Carolina ...

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