A large-scale analysis of 117 mammal species found that preventing reproduction is associated with longer lifespans, suggesting a strong link between reproductive activity and life expectancy. Why do ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After fighting against animal testing for decades with little success, campaigners now see a real prospect of ...

Animal-rights groups have long been at odds with the U.S. government, which subsidizes meat and dairy production and spends billions of dollars on animal research every year. But in some ways, they’ve ...

How do animals decide when to fight and when to walk, fly, slither, or swim away? Most research on animal conflict has focused on the short-term costs of single interactions, but a pair of behavioral ...

Liz Haney ’92 has joined the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Animal Science as the new equine professor of practice, marking a full-circle moment in her career. Liz ...

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In Telford's Exotic Zoo, life found a way. A casque-headed iguana has given birth to eight babies at the Shropshire wildlife park – without any contact with a male, via a phenomenon called ...

From a chromatography lab designed to solve a mystery to puzzle races, these activities get high school students talking—while doing science. Once the first days of school have passed, I often feel ...

Throughout the animal kingdom, certain species have earned notoriety for their ability to kill humans, whether through direct attacks or disease transmission. While the tiny mosquito kills more humans ...

A video is making the rounds online showing a dog playing fetch — and what could be a shooting object in the sky. Luis Elizondo, who has led investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena, has a ...