Livestock breeders could soon have more tools to improve the health and quality of their animals, thanks to a recent study ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment.

A new study tracing the evolution of same-sex sexual behavior in mammals, using phylogenetic analyses, suggests these behaviors may have evolved in part to strengthen social bonding and relationships.

By midlife, an animal's everyday behaviors can signal how long it is likely to live. That is the striking conclusion of a new study in which researchers put scores of short-lived fish under continuous ...

For centuries, unusual animal behaviour before earthquakes has been reported worldwide. Livestock becoming restless, wildlife ...

Animals survive in changing and unpredictable environments by not merely responding to new circumstances, but also, like humans, by forming inferences about their surroundings—for instance, squirrels ...

A study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem suggests that tracking animal movement and behavior in near real-time could detect dangerous pathogens. As zoonotic diseases like avian flu and COVID-19 ...

The 550-million-year-old fossil Tribrachidium heraldicum is one of the most enigmatic critters from the Ediacaran. With its circular, three-lobe form, it doesn't resemble any modern organism. The ...

A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before the emergence of colorful fruits and flowers. And there has been a dramatic explosion of color signals in ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

During the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus SARS-CoV-2 was detected in an increasing number of non-human animal species. This included many wild animal species as well as domestic ...