But an urgent concern is the potential for scavenger animals to spread H5N1 further by eating infected carcasses. The term ...

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." These two coyotes ...

Some of these animals are fantastic hunters that only rely on scavenging in extreme food shortages. Others are just too lazy to hunt down their own meals. Nevertheless, all of them have rightfully ...

A new study indicates that human behavior around 45,000 to 29,000 years ago contributed to a change in the composition of scavenging animal species living nearby. While smaller scavenging animals such ...

Antibacterial discovery has become a pressing global challenge. Rising antibiotic resistance and difficult-to-treat infections mean we urgently need new antibacterial drugs and infection prevention ...

Early settlers saw devils as livestock threats and hunted them until they became protected in 1941. ©Mariam Maa/Shutterstock.com Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) might be small creatures, but ...