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.

For over six years, 38-year-old Wuhan restaurant owner Lai Yun started most days the same way - with a trip to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, just ten minutes walk from his house.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an assessment in August 2021 stating that one U.S. intelligence agency, the FBI, assessed with “moderate confidence” that COVID-19 most ...

With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that infected humans.... New research points to raccoon dogs in Wuhan market as ...