This post was written by Dr. Katherine Compitus and Kathryne Gerol, MSW. What is "Noah Syndrome"? It's another way to describe a serious mental illness known as animal hoarding disorder. It is called ...

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 animal ...

Animal breeding is the process of selective mating of animals with desirable genetic traits, to maintain or enhance these traits in future generations. For livestock, this involves estimation of the ...

Population genomic analysis of South Pacific humpback whales infer a recent population decline, potentially caused by commercial whaling. Mitogenomic data indicate strong female-driven ...

Plants are able to make their own food when sunlight shines on their leaves. Unlike plants, animals, including humans, can't make their own food. This means they need to find their nutrition by eating ...

These amazing conservationists have dedicated their lives to saving animal species. The buttery voice of this British nature historian can be recognized all over the world. Getting his start as a ...

Apr. 22, 2026 A vivid green pitviper hiding in Sichuan’s misty mountains has been revealed as a completely new species. Scientists had overlooked it for decades, assuming it was a common snake—until ...

Even though scientists are continually trying to minimize the use of animals and to replace them with non-animal alternatives, animal research remains critical and necessary to comply with legal ...