Cats bred with exaggerated facial features like round, flat faces, and big eyes, might be harder to understand emotionally. It takes Potato, an eight-year-old British Shorthair cat, forever to eat. Her owner, artist Grant Conboy, says that this isn’t because of her couch-potato temperament as her given name implies. …

A Covid-19 outbreak has the potential to wipe out our closest relatives, while the lockdown is leading to a surge in poaching across Africa — “Almost every respiratory virus we carry will also make it to the great apes,” says Dr. Fabian Leendertz, a primate infectious disease ecologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Africa faces another possible outbreak, one which has the potential to wipe out…

Your insta-worthy beauty “shelfie” is causing an ugly environmental mess. “My favourite look I was a part of [this season] would be the look Sam Bryant created for Preen,” says Quelle Bester, 31, as she meticulously lays out her makeup kit. “The models were made into these living religious statues…

Stop the madness, CVS — If you’ve ever stepped foot in a CVS, chances are you’ve crossed paths with a receipt worthy of a gold medal performance in rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympics. “Why are CVS receipts so long?” is a popular topic on social media. …

How to protect global biodiversity through biobanking and CryoArks — “A Race We Can Win” is the tagline of the upcoming 2019 UN Climate Action Summit. Much of the conversation surrounding the summit focuses on halting the effects of climate change on humans. If we reduce our emissions, if we have just two children, if we mobilize the youth, we…

Why the urgent need wildlife crossings across Los Angeles and Southern California, affects us as much as mountain lions. The Cat That’s Lost The Cream Stuck in a habitat ghetto fenced in by freeways on which hundreds of thousands of cars roar past every day, Santa Monica mountain lions find…