More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend on plant-based diets. Plants are a low-calorie food source, so it can be challenging for animals to consume ...

As Vermilion County steps into 2025, the Commercial-News has taken a look back at 2024 and the top stories of the year.

"Mealworm beetles are storage pests that attack stored grain, but we noticed their presence at a chicken coop where plastic ...

Black soldier fly larvae from Decatur's Innovafeed production facility are what's for dinner at chicken coops and backyard ...

We've ranked the animals being pushed to the edge of extinction by climate change and habitat loss, culminating in the ...

In a bid to lessen the harmful effects from conventional ways of disposing of plastics, scientists in Kenya have found a ...

From indestructible tardigrades to body-merging comb jellies, animals can teach humans so much about medicine, robotics, ...

South Texas hunters and outdoor enthusiasts will need to practice caution and monitor animals potentially affected by the New ...

Climate change is reducing the nutritional value of plants due to rising CO2 levels, causing nutrient dilution and affecting the food web. • Faster-growing plants contain fewer nutrients like protein, ...

Once considered a pest, these swamp rats eventually became a key part of Louisiana's cuisine, and, quite surprisingly, have a ...

This signal integrates shoot Si demand and root Si uptake. Approaches are needed to explore regulatory RNA motifs in plants. An interpretable RNA foundation model is developed, trained on ...