Animals
Brazil enacts law to allow divorced couples shared custody of pets
Under the legislation, joint custody can be awarded when couples separate and cannot agree on who should keep the animal.
As Israeli owners struggle from daily Iranian attacks, pets pay the price of war
Video: Stowaway possum spotted camouflaging among plushies at airport shop
Dressed for the afterlife: What 7,000-year-old grave soil reveals about Stone Age clothing - study
Israeli scientists discover feline herpes can be treated with human coldsore medication
Treatment of FHV-1 ocular disease is challenging; until now, it has been treated less successfully with a pill, but it had to be forced on cats, and they didn’t like it.
Haifa beaches to reopen Saturday after sightings of rare whale shark
At adulthood, the species can reach 12–14 metres and weigh more than 20 tonnes, making it the largest fish on Earth.
Honoring 'The Last Samurai': Fallen soldier Adi Tzur remembered with new home for abandoned dogs
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS: After St.-Sgt. Adi Tzur was killed defending Kibbutz Kissufim on October 7, The Magic House, a shelter helping stray and abused dogs find homes, was founded in his honor.
Illegal cockfighting ring broken up by Israel Police, 150 cockerels rescued
The territorial animals were forced to fight each other while patrons gambled on who the winner would be.
New scans challenge the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted giant animals to extinction
A study in Royal Society Open Science by Professor Mike Archer shows no evidence that humans hunted or butchered megafauna in the fossil record.
How Taylor Swift's vintage tee choice is helping to save orphaned, wounded sea otters
Averaging $100,000 in sales every 15 minutes, the successful fundraiser collected funds to help injured and orphaned otters.
Polar bears take over abandoned research station in Russian Arctic
Scientists left the research station, which is in an abandoned village, soon after the Soviet Union's collapse over three decades ago.
Study: Petting your cat sends an oxytocin wave through both of you
A cat's low-frequency purr can lower human heart rate and blood pressure, studies find.
Feathered foes: The hidden dangers of urban pigeons
Israeli study: Movement of wild animals can help us predict next pandemic
A study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem suggests that tracking animal movement and behavior in near real-time could detect dangerous pathogens.
