Eating animals poses two moral problems. Is it wrong in principle to raise and kill animals so that human beings can eat meat and fish? Does it stop being wrong if the processes involved are ...

In Germany, animal research is primarily carried out in the areas of basic research, medicine and veterinary medicine. Animal research can also be required to identify factors that pose a risk to the ...

Testing on animals now requires three Home Office licences - for the institution, the scientist and the project. They must outline the potential benefits and prove there is no alternative.

Octopuses are wild creatures. They’re objectively weird, squishy, alien-esque creatures that blob around the ocean and can ...

Torrents of data from cell atlases, brain organoids and other methods are finally delivering answers to an age-old question.

Identifying laboratory rodents as a group may be sufficient if all the animals are to receive the same treatment and/or manipulation and if individual variations in response are not to be recorded ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Evolutionary biologists report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird -- which they say could be the largest known member of its kind -- providing new ...

November 4, 2024 • The gentle animals are part of Portland International Airport's effort to counter travel stress with soothing elements from nature. November 1, 2024 • For years, we've been ...

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 ...

Modern comb jellies have complex structures like muscular and neural systems, which more basic animals like sponges lack. "Things don't spring forth fully formed from the head of Zeus with muscle ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival. Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that has become ...

Monsó tackles our all-too-human anthropocentric biases surrounding death and deftly outlines a useful philosophical framework for understanding animal cognition to illustrate how a minimal ...