In the wild, some parents welcome hundreds, even millions of babies at once and often rely on numbers for survival. Here are ...

A Horizon research survey shows that three-quarters of New Zealanders (75 percent or 2.88 million adults) believe farrowing crates should be phased out immediately or within five years.

Countries such as Switzerland, Sweden, and Finland have banned both permanent and temporary farrowing crates, opting instead ...

An EU proposal aimed at improving animal transport conditions has hit a wall two years after its introduction, with ...

Prolific Dungeons and Dragons author Ed Greenwood will answer just about any question fans put to him - including how fantasy ...

The government has been accused of "brazen industry capture" by passing a series of changes to pig welfare standards that are ...

ASF is highly contagious and deadly to hogs, and although it cannot be transmitted to people and properly cooked pork products are safe to eat, its high mortality can cause pork shortages and other ...

Her arm was the first thing Shyam Babu saw, tiny and frail, poking through the mud like a discarded doll. But this was no doll. Covered with ants and bleeding from what doctors would later suspect ...

Paul McCartney once thought this band could be the next Beatles and their story reveals why history did not see it coming.

Playwright Ismail Mohamed has accused former President Jacob Zuma of giving birth to an “illegitimate child” as a means to control the creative industry.

In Beawar, Rajasthan, the birthplace of the Right to Information movement, people reckon with a looming setback while ...