Back in July, Russia launched a satellite into space that carried a harem of geckos so scientists could study sex in weightlessness. But bad news came this week with the report that the “sexy space ...

It seems like every time researchers stick their heads—or their remotely operated vehicles—underwater, they find a shocking ...

Animals have evolved some truly bizarre behaviors, and even after decades of research and the aid of modern technology, ...

A newly identified species was found in the Galápagos Islands, one of the world’s most significant biodiverse areas. The tiny ...

Wildlife research gets less exciting when the real work starts sorting through data. A single trail camera might capture a ...

Scientists discovered that detached tissue from a marine animal displayed signs of immortality, healing and reorganizing independently.

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 ...

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 ...

In the natural world, survival isn’t always about being the fastest or the strongest. Often, it is about having a trick that avoids a fight or solves a problem in a way that seems bizarre to humans.

For decades, scientists have relied on animal research to propel modern medicine forward, with animal testing being involved in routine vaccinations as well as cancer therapies. However, the status ...

Dozens of dogs and cats rescued from a shuttered Fort Collins animal testing facility are beginning rehabilitation at a ...

To stay on forefront of research, UL should move away from animal testing, argues guest columnist Jennifer Riedl Cross ...