2020 has been an unpredictable year, but it’s safe to say that even the most cynical doomsday preppers didn’t anticipate checking off “dead, coronavirus-infected mink rising from their graves” from ...

When a volunteer from Antioch Animal Services came into their building and said she saw what appeared to be a sick domesticated ferret on the ground outside in the parking lot, staffers quickly went ...

A Stony Brook company whose human COVID-19 vaccine was repurposed to treat cats has pivoted to a more promising animal market: mink farms. Applied DNA Sciences Inc. expects to begin the new animal ...

Ferrets are seen as an important model for analyzing how viruses could affect humans as they can be infected by human flu viruses. A variant of the H5N1 subtype of bird flu that infected mink in ...

Ferrets, the weasel-like cousin of minks, were given an experimental COVID-19 vaccine in Colorado last year. The vaccine was administered to endangered black-footed ferrets, which may be vulnerable to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Slink the mink, thought to be an escaped ferret, was turned in to the Exploits Valley SPCA over the weekend. (Submitted by Sarah MacLeod) It walks like a ferret and talks like a ferret, but Exploits ...

The U.S., the Netherlands, Denmark and Spain have all reported coronavirus outbreaks on mink farms. Dzīvnieku brīvība via Flickr Commons under CC BY 2.0 The government of Denmark announced that it ...