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 ...

Since cinema’s inception, animal movies have held a special place ... she needs and leaving enough for the bees to thrive. Her simple, harmonious life is disrupted when a nomadic family moves ...

Though measuring animal intelligence is tricky ... "Even though these brains are simple [in contrast to mammalian brains], they can do a lot of processing, even more than a supercomputer ...

Oct. 25, 2024 — Drosophila is one of the most thoroughly studied lab animals -- with the exception of the female reproductive tract. Now a team of biologists has taken the first deep look at the ...

Seeing through one eye or many, in technicolour or black and white, few animals experience the world as we do. By analysing the properties of animals' visual systems, we can model what the world would ...

A backward question mark shape on the creature's back reveals early animal evolutionary history. The earliest known animal to show evidence of an asymmetrical body lived over half a billion years ...

October 22, 2024 • Every American red wolf alive right now is descended from only 14 canids. In the 1970s, humans drove the red wolf to the brink of extinction. Because of that, red wolves today ...

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 ...

Even Marine Animals in Untouched Habitats Are at Risk from Human Impacts Sep. 18, 2024 — Climate change and a range of other human impacts are putting marine animals at risk of extinction ...

(Maggie MacPherson/CBC) Not only is it relatively simple to avoid exposure to the disease, experts say, but there are also effective treatments available for both humans and animals who may have ...

But his ideas that animals are conscious in the same way humans are have long been shunned. Until now. "There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure ...