A baby okapi has made his first foray into public view after being born at a Yorkshire zoo. Yorkshire Wildlife Park (YWP), near Doncaster, has been part of a breeding programme for the endangered ...

White Oak Conservation Center, founded in 1982 by donor Howard Gilman, promotes long-term conservation solutions by ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A critically endangered Okapi calf was born at the Freeport-McMoRan Audubon Species Survival Center Jan. 19. According to the Audubon Nature Institute, Okapi are found in the ...

(FOX40.COM) — Nearly four months after his birth, the Sacramento Zoo has announced the name of its first-ever baby okapi. The local zoo announced the name on Saturday morning at the okapi habitat. The ...

A newborn okapi calf rests beside his mother, Kivuli, in a private enclosure at the Sacramento Zoo in October 2025. The zoo this week unveiled the calf’s name, “Moki,” inspired by parents Molimo and ...

Karin Modig receives funding from Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare and from Karolinska Institutets research funds. How much do your genes determine how long you’ll live?

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published Thursday in the journal Science. Using data from human twin studies, an ...

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.71. For researchers studying aging — and thinking about how to extend our ...

The Sacramento Zoo’s new okapi calf stands in his habitat. The male calf, born Oct. 9, is now on view to the public for the first time as the zoo invites supporters to help choose his name through an ...

Scientific theory predicts that having more offspring leads to a shorter life span, including in humans. However, despite some hundred years of research, there is no unequivocal evidence for this link ...