Though the fluffiest animals are often domesticated, the wild also boasts its own fluffy creatures; just be cautious, as some ...

Silkie chickens are a prized breed of chicken with a beautiful and fluffy (yet misleading) set of white feathers and black skin. The chicken flesh itself is a dark bluish-gray or even black ...

An international team of researchers led by Professor Huaijun Zhou from the UC Davis Department of Animal Science has created the first-ever detailed map of how genes are regulated in chickens — a ...

Ever since the world first met Snoopy, from Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic book strip in 1950, the world has been in love with this dog. Snoopy is a black and white Beagle, and he was inspired by ...

The feeling of a soft, brand-new towel is amazing, but after constant use and plenty of washes, it is normal for towels to lose that nice touch and instead become stiffer. This tends to happen ...

Although the cat’s hair can carry the allergens, the hair itself is not at fault here. Even hairless Sphynx cats secrete the protein. This is also why longer haired, fluffier cats don’t necessarily ...

As my new book shows, they do it primarily for love. Cattle have experienced the highest number of extinctions, with at least 184 breeds lost globally. Of all chicken breeds, one in ten is now extinct ...

But after seeing several of his colleagues stricken with cancer, he went into raising “better than organic” grass-fed chickens in 2001. Realising that chicken farming in Malaysia was an ...

The prevalence of bigger, fast-growing chicken breeds on UK farms – dubbed “Frankenchickens” by campaigners – has led to more people developing health problems, according to animal welfare ...