zoology

LITTLE VALLEY — Phil Trowbridge, the judge of market beef and dairy steer competition at Thursday’s Cattaraugus County Fair, called the quality of the...

ONEONTA — SUNY Oneonta’s campus is anything but quiet this summer, with many students engaged in research projects covering a wide array of discipline...

ANGELICA — The Allegany County 4-H Goat Show was held Friday at the fairgrounds. Sr. Showmanship Grand Champion: Madison Morehouse of Cuba. Reserve Ch...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation encourages New Yorkers to take part in the state’s annual summer survey of wild turkeys, a...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — While more of us seem to be more accepting of insects — even the stingers and biters if they don’t enter our personal space — summe...

ANGELICA — Several young people earned ribbons and awards during the Allegany County Fair Youth Dairy Show this week. This year’s show was judged by C...

WASHINGTON — The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endange...

SHIRLEY (AP) — A surfer says he was bitten by a shark at the same Long Island beach where a shark bit a lifeguard 10 days earlier. Shawn Donnelly told...

From battling a lynx to the birth of the poodle skirt, from crowning Miss New York to the return of a Seneca artifact, here’s a look back on the week ...

CONKLIN (AP) — A missing golden retriever named Lilah, discovered deep inside a culvert pipe in Broome County, could not be lured out by her owner wit...

Most of us don’t want to think about death. It’s an unsettling and largely unwelcome topic. Humans are emotional creatures by nature, and the majority...

If you are unfortunate enough to have been bitten by the spring gobbler bug, the infection has more than likely spread deep and is incurable. Having s...

Lyme disease is a significant concern for people across the country. According to an analysis of insurance records by the Centers for Disease Control ...

Man, can you believe spring gobbler is upon us once again? It seems to take forever for trout season to finally roll around and break winter’s deadloc...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — More than 150,000 hunters will take to the woods across Pennsylvania one-half hour before sunrise on Saturday for the opening of th...

OLEAN — The next service project for the Olean Rotary Club will be held in conjunction with the Cattaraugus County SPCA’s Volunteer Work Day from 11 a...

Pennsylvania officials confirmed Monday the state’s first positive case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in domestic poultry — in a flock of comme...

ARE THERE ANY SPECIAL CATS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION? Yes, Willie is a sweet, wonderful senior kitty who was surrendered to the SPCA in early December. H...