A new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to link the pandemic’s origin to raccoon dogs.
The recent fight over wet-market raccoon dogs underscores just how much prior beliefs can affect interpretation.
Atlantic contributors follow the decline of the meat industry
A friendly group of the wild desert dogs could help tease apart domestication’s mysterious first steps.
To monitor the growth of the New England Cottontail population, scientists are collecting their droppings for DNA analysis.
In the 1950s, if a woman wanted to know if she was pregnant, she needed to get her urine injected into a frog.
It weighed 69 tons.