These animals effectively act as landscape engineers, reorganising soils and sediments. Yet their combined global impact has never been explored, until now. Research that my colleagues and I ...

Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development.

The circle of life lives within local school campuses. From planting seeds, hatching chicks and slaughtering roosters, ...

Max Genecov is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a dad, and a stuffed animal owner. “I’ve always had them growing up, I had a big fantasy life with ...

7 Genius Animals That Use Tools Like Humans! Posted: 21 March 2025 | Last updated: 21 March 2025 Tool use isn’t just for humans! From birds to primates, some animals have mastered using objects ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the animal kingdom's most curious youngsters. Sumatran tigersPanthera tigris ...

Her work has previously appeared in the Tampa Bay Times, Miami Herald and NPR. Getty A preschool teacher has been arrested after being accused of raping a 3-year-old at a South Dakota daycare she ...

Last September, my newly three-year-old daughter strode into preschool for the first time, sporting a ladybug shirt, red pants, and the particular high-wattage, full-dimple grin she usually ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

Metabolism is known to be linked to lifespan in some species, though it remains unclear how this effect is mediated. Here they show that reduced pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) activity lowers ...

Resurrecting extinct animals is both “exhilarating and terrifying,” says Beth Shapiro, an expert in ancient DNA and a biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Exhilarating ...

"It was a human-driven extinction – European settlers came to Australia and brutally obliterated this animal," says Andrew Pask, a geneticist at the University of Melbourne. Pask is leading a ...