animals

To celebrate thirty years of eating, growing, harvesting and cooking on The Splendid Table, the show is going on tour and will make a stop in Iowa City.

Kanzi taught scientists and visitors about bonobos, language and being human.

Every spring, nearly a million sandhill cranes pass through an 80-mile stretch of the Platte River in Nebraska on their northward migration.

Dubuque resident Emily Harold shares about opening her heart, and her home, to foster animals in need of extra care. She's fostered five dogs through the Collie Rescue of Greater Illinois since 2022.

University of Iowa professor Elizabeth Willis' latest collection of poetry Liontaming in America has been longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry.

With increased prices for food and housing due to inflation, economic hardship forces some owners to put their animals up for adoption. Some animal rescue groups in Iowa work to try and address the problem.

An ecologist shares a beginner's guide to the mysterious creatures of the night sky: owls.

Officials with the Iowa DNR investigated a jellyfish native to China in rural Guthrie County. Meanwhile, Oskaloosa Schools reported a student found the freshwater creatures while fishing in Mahaska County.

Sophomore Gabi Riessen got a service dog shortly after being diagnosed with POTS, which causes her to have fainting spells. Unable to have a normal college experience elsewhere, she transferred to UNI, where both she and her dog, Winnie, now march in the band.

The bird flu outbreak continues to expand in the U.S. and Iowa, with tens of millions of chickens, thousands of wild birds and dozens of mammal species infected.