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Wombats are largely antisocial creatures, but they poop in common areas, likely as a way of communicating with other wombats, according to the new study. (Getty Images)

 Wildlife December 16, 2025

Why do wombats have square poop?

A healthy swarm of bees climb on a wax comb from a honey bee hive at the College of Veterinary Medicine Teaching Apiary in May 2025. Honey bees are important to the Georgia economy, both for honey and for pollination, but beekeepers have a difficult time finding qualified veterinarians to prescribe medicines when hives become infected. Three UGA professors are creating a curriculum to train veterinarians in apiary health.

 Animal Health November 07, 2025

The tiniest patient: Teaching veterinarians to treat bees

Image of Covid 19 under a microscope.

 Infectious Disease October 30, 2025

Experts feared a disease rebound after COVID-19. It didn’t happen.

Maddy Solomon checks a trap camera with homeowner John King. King agreed to participate in Solomon’s research to find out more the animals on his property and to help the Ecology doctoral student with her study of foxes. Solomon is monitoring more than 100 wildlife cameras in the Athens area to study red foxes and sarcoptic mange.

 Wildlife October 20, 2025

Wildlife cameras capture critters from suburb to farm to forest

The Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is the most common mosquito in Georgia and, while it doesn’t travel very far, can spread some nasty diseases. Experts advise suburban and urban residents to root out standing water around their homes and to be aware that the risk of diseases like West Nile Virus increases in late summer and early fall. (Photo: Contributed)

 Health & Medicine July 21, 2025

Mosquitos are more than a nuisance

The laurel dace lives only in a few streams in southeastern Tennessee and faced extinction as a 2024 drought dried up its habitat. Conservation biologists conducted an emergency rescue, and today two Odum School of Ecology graduate students are working with the Tennessee Aquarium to give the minnow a better chance at long-term survival. (Photo: Doug Strickland, Tennessee Aquarium)

 Ecology July 10, 2025

Endangered minnow rallies conservationists in race to save laurel dace

Meet the Tapir Valley tree frog, measuring just 2 centimeters and categorized as a critically endangered species in the journal Zootaxa. Thought to exist only in a single wetland in Costa Rica, it was first identified in 2018 by herpetologist Donald Varela-Soto, who discovered a male of the species that year. (Photo: Twan Leenders)

 Ecology June 26, 2025

Sounds of survival: A grad student’s quest to protect the Tapir Valley tree frog

Researchers working with fire ants are trying to understand how a small group of ants can convince a larger group to change a fundamental aspect of their behavior—whether they kill or nurture multiple queens. Their work was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

 Entomology May 07, 2025

A minority can influence whole group to change, study finds

With technical guidance and organizational support from UGA and other U.S. institutions, the Groundnut Improvement Network for Africa, or GINA, is developing peanut varieties that help African farmers adapt to threats of plant disease and climate change.

 Agriculture July 24, 2024

UGA supports African research network breeding climate-adapted peanuts

A woman with two buns in her hair looks downward with her mouth slightly open, set against a smoky or misty background.

 Agriculture October 13, 2023

Peanut Innovation Lab at UGA receives $2.5M grant to help farmers in Madagascar