A new multi-institutional study has uncovered a softshell turtle, “Hutchemys walkerorum,” that existed in what is now North Dakota, around 66.5 million years ago. During the Late Cretaceous period, just before the mass extinction catastrophe, this turtle species was in ...

U.S. scientists conducted research and recently found that some of the white-tailed deer living in the country are actively infected by the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2. This study suggests that the positive deers can be reinfected with the virus ...