The smoggy, litter-swept stretch of the Cross Bronx Expressway leading to the Throgs Neck Bridge is not a place you’d expect to find a police checkpoint for illegal hunting. But each fall, it becomes ...

Fecal analyses and necropsies suggest a fire-footed rope squirrel was the source of a 2023 mpox outbreak among sooty ...

The story starts in 2023 when scientists at the Taï Chimpanzee Project in Côte d'Ivoire found a troop of sooty mangabeys ( Cercocebus atys) that had been struck with Mpox. The virus spread ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) — Tularemia, a rare disease also known as Rabbit Fever, has been found in a squirrel in Urbana. The disease is commonly found in rodents, rabbits, and hares, but can also affect ...

Wildlife enthusiasts say they are relieved after a suspected case of squirrel pox was confirmed to be an alternative - although still fatal - disease. A red squirrel was spotted at Wooler Common, in ...

A dead rabbit found in central Illinois tested positive for a bacterial disease last week, prompting the local health department to urge residents to monitor their families and pets for signs of the ...

Officers check dead deer stashed in the beds of pickup trucks for the proper tags and try to determine if they were illegally hauled over state lines. Firearms must be unloaded and properly stored.