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Human activity like cutting down forests and pushing out predators have allowed coyotes to thrive across the Great Plains. Agriculture sectors worry about losing livestock to coyotes.

New data samples from the Wuhan market points to an intermingling of SARS-CoV-2, raccoon dogs and humans. The authors of a new paper say it bolsters the animal origin theory. Other researchers object.

The Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 was supposed to level out school funding across the state. A new report from the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy shows it's not working anymore.

This week major banks are expected to reveal profits in the third quarter of 2020. This data will shed light on how much the pandemic has affected consumer borrowing and spending.

Why did a $72 million mission to study water on the moon fail so soon after launch? A new NASA report has the answer.

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and mammals around the world. And that's a serious risk for human health.

Dr. Sue Goldie and New York Times reporter John Branch recount how a private, years-long conversation about her Parkinson's became a public story.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to take the gray wolf off the endangered species list. The wolf had been extirpated from the West and had dwindled most other places in the U.S. The great canine has rebounded since it was reintroduced to the northern Rockies in the 1990s and is continuing to spread into the Pacific Northwest. But biologists warn that if these wolves loses federal protection, they will not be able to return to some places, such as Colorado, where the ecosystem sorely needs them.

George, the last of his species of Hawaiian land snail, died on New Year's Day. Wildlife biologist David Sischo tells NPR, "I very rarely saw him outside of his shell."

The cause of death for a body found in Kentucky Lake on June 20 has been ruled a homicide and a suspect is now in police custody. A Kentucky State Medical…