Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

I built a custom animal barn in Minecraft that’s both functional and beautiful. With separate pens, feeding areas, and a cozy design, this barn is perfect for organizing your cows, sheep, pigs, and ...

Mammals, for instance, differ dramatically in their maximal lifespans—from the tiny forest shrew, which lives only one or two years, to the bowhead whale, capable of living for more than 200 years.

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At a meeting of top conservation groups this week, a bioethics question took center stage: Should scientists be allowed to tinker with the genes of wild plants and animals? The tentative consensus so ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. One of the most surprising reveals during today's Nintendo Direct is that Pokemon has a new game, Pokemon Pokopia, coming next year, and it's a big ...

Explore the Quark mod's adorable Shiba Inu dog in Minecraft! This loyal companion retrieves thrown items, guards against dark spots, and even snuggles on the bed. Millennial therapist has 1 question ...

We're on a run of Minecraft update wins this month, as Mojang follows up one of its most valuable changes in a long time with two more fantastic quality-of-life improvements to the blocky open-world ...

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade. By Carl Zimmer In the ...

Humans have selectively bred animals and crops since the beginning of agriculture, but advances in biotechnology have provided genetic tools to select specific traits. First applied to animals in the ...

An ad hoc committee appointed by the National Academies to explore heritable genetic modifications of food animals. This committee will address methods for heritable genetic modifications and identify ...

Understanding how genes influence complex behaviors remains one of biology's most fascinating challenges. Now, however, in a recent study, researchers have compiled a comprehensive dataset documenting ...