Mar. 19, 2025 — To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only ...

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Mar. 18, 2025 — The red coral colonies that were transplanted a decade ago on the seabed of the Medes Islands have survived successfully. They are very similar to the original communities and ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris ...

An animal test is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. Animal experiments are ...

Rats laugh, bees roll balls for fun, turtles dance when they anticipate feeding, and dogs wiggle their tails when they’re excited. Research into animal emotions and experience has been on the ...

The natural world never ceases to amaze us with its incredible variety and adaptability. One of the most captivating phenomena in the animal kingdom is the ability to regrow body parts. From starfish ...

Have you ever taken a pill to alleviate pain? Have you received a vaccine against deadly infectious diseases like polio or smallpox? Are you taking medications to lower your blood pressure? Have you ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

Have you herd? Groups of animals often have unique, and sometimes funny, names. You’re probably familiar with the collective nouns for common backyard and barnyard animals, such as flocks of birds and ...

Kids love animals -- and they love TV shows about (or starring!) animals almost as much. Whether your kid likes animated animals or the real deal, these wild series will educate, entertain, and ...

Rational argument about the right and wrong way to treat animals is made more difficult by the deep love that many of us feel for animals. For philosophers it raises fundamental questions about ...