The monogamous, hibernating canids, which are related to foxes, are sold for meat and fur. By Emily Anthes On Thursday, scientists unveiled new data on the possible origins of the Covid-19 pandemic — ...

A cute, dog-like animal has emerged as the chief culprit for the first transmission of the COVID virus to humans, thanks to newly revealed genetic evidence from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in ...

A raccoon dog in Miyagi prefecture, Japan. (Atsushi Tomura/Getty Images) The raccoon dog did it: That was the explosive takeaway of a genomic analysis conducted in March by a trio of scientists who ...

The World Health Organization is asking Chinese officials to release data that may show a link between raccoon dogs and the coronavirus. That left many wondering — what is a raccoon dog, anyway? First ...

Growing numbers of invasive raccoon dogs are preying on baby sea turtles on the beaches of Yakushima island, one of the world ...

A new report suggesting that the coronavirus may have originated in raccoon dogs has energized scientists who have long argued that the pandemic began at a wildlife market in Wuhan, where the pathogen ...

Three years into the Covid-19 pandemic and, while the virus’ pernicious grip on society has lessened, the debate on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 rages on. Was it a lab leak? Was it an animal in a wet ...

Remember the raccoon dog? The adorable fox-like critter made headlines in the spring of 2023, when it was implicated in some preliminary research on the source of the virus that causes COVID-19.

A critical new clue has recently surfaced in the multiyear hunt to determine the origin of COVID, which has killed at least 7 million people worldwide. Scientific researchers report there is evidence ...

After international scientists discovered a potential link between the origin of the covid-19 virus and raccoon dogs, medical experts in Western Pennsylvania said the animal could be where the virus ...

The raccoon dog did it: That was the explosive takeaway of a genomic analysis conducted in March by a trio of scientists who had scrutinized data from a market in Wuhan, China, where the pandemic was ...