From shrinking shellfish to bulked-up bison, animals often adapt to environmental change by increasing or decreasing in size. Because size is well-preserved in the fossil record, scientists have an ...

There is more to treating animals in an appropriate way than keeping them healthy. Are we right to use animals as objects of entertainment? From the welfare point of view it is wrong to keep an ...

At the University of Aarhus animal facility, we observed sporadic ... the average litter size of affected females was 7.5 pups. Generally, female mice with pups that were approximately 14 d ...

Stories have surfaced of animals such as polar bears fighting off new diseases, and sometimes losing that fight.

Some fungi do threaten human health. Examples include Aspergillus fumigatus and Cryptococcus neoformans, both of which can ...

Animal behavior research is particularly relevant to the study of human behavior when it comes to the preservation of a species, or how an animal’s behavior helps it survive. The behavior of ...

The reason the cheetah is the fastest land animal on Earth has been explained by scientists. The big cat hits the 'sweet spot ...

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 ...

Animals need air, water, shelter and food to survive. Our lungs bring in oxygen and remove carbon dioxide. But other animals breathe in all sorts of different ways. Fish use gills to get their ...

was seriously affected by the arrival in the late 1700s of European settlers and their animals. Roughly chicken size, the kagu continues to fall prey to non-native pigs, cats, and dogs.