Movement defines life across the animal kingdom. From a fish cutting through water to a bird taking flight, muscles power ...

Ancient DNA can be a powerful tool for helping us reconstruct the long-dead past. Most surviving genetic material comes from ...

An unusual leopard gecko that naturally develops aggressive tumors may become an important new model for cancer research.

The post Animal Behaviors Scientists Still Can’t Fully Explain appeared first on A-Z Animals. Animals have evolved some truly bizarre behaviors, and even after decades of research and the aid of ...

From a tiny creature that survives the vacuum of space to a lizard that already transformed diabetes care, certain animals carry biological secrets that researchers are racing to turn into life-saving ...

I’m my most recent column, I tackle animal research: Cells growing in a dish or experiments run on a computer only get one so far. Some of the trickiest outstanding questions in biology—the questions ...

When Irina Kovlyagina started her graduate studies at the University Medical Centre Mainz in 2017, she was one of the first people in the institute to use female animals for her experiments. “I was ...

In popular culture, dogs and cats are often set against each other: dogs are seen as obedient and useful, while cats are ...

As animal research becomes a more visible political issue, publicly available oversight records are increasingly being used to shape inaccurate narratives about essential biomedical studies. When ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment. For decades, animals like mice, rats and pigs have been essential tools in ...

Oregon Voices for Biomedical Research (OVBR) – a nonprofit advocacy group of veterinarians, scientists, healthcare professionals and concerned Oregonians – today released the results of an independent ...

It seems like every time researchers stick their heads—or their remotely operated vehicles—underwater, they find a shocking array of animals thriving far beyond humanity’s reach. A study published in ...