More than 90 percent of the animals used are rats and mice, and despite knowing that these small animals are sentient and feel pain, we have excluded them from coverage under the Animal Welfare Act.

It's an emerging research field called comparative thanatology, which focuses on how animals react to the dead or dying, the physiological mechanisms that underlie such reactions, and what we can ...

In some parts of the world, hammerhead shark populations have plummeted by as much as 90 percent. To learn more about young scalloped hammerhead sharks in Mexico’s Gulf of California ...

Today, however, we can all take solace in knowing that neither of these two experiments would ever be permitted. Though rare, there's no question that malfeasance can occur in animal research, but ...

As a research community, we need to keep asking what these changes represent and whom they serve. The ambitions of “transformation” are at risk of being co-opted by actors that stand to ...

The 6 Most Hilarious Things We Learned about Animals in 2024 From a comb jelly with two butts to wing-slapping ants, this animal research made us laugh this year By Andrea Thompson edited by Dean ...

I had my first pet when I was 5 years old, I remember when "Patch" the guinea pig died after 3 years with us. His cold lifeless body laying there and my mum said, "That's how life is, nothing and ...