The Gates Foundation funds research on engineering new genetically modified-varieties of staple crops – including rice, sweet potatoes, and bananas – to contain higher amounts of vitamins and ...

EPHRATA — With pillow cases hanging from their back pockets, metal toilet snakes capped with tennis balls coiled in their hands and dirt covering their clothes, Dave Volson and Chad Eidson looked like ...

Sometimes success comes in the tiniest packages. Take the case of the , a species nearly extinct in 2002, when only 16 were known to exist in the wild. Biologists recently discovered that for the ...

Rabbits have taken over the Jersey Shore, and no one -- including local and wildlife officials -- has been able to get a handle on it, according to a report by PhillyVoice.com. Over the past year, ...

A breeding program at the Bronx Zoo allowed scientists to release 15 young cottontail rabbits, the only rabbit species native to New England, into three areas in Maine as part of an effort to prevent ...

Fifteen young New England cottontail rabbits born at a New York City zoo have been released into the wild in Maine as part of an effort to save the only rabbit species native to New England from ...