During the summer months, the voles are largely solitary. However, throughout the long, harsh winters, they form small ...

National animal advocacy groups Animal Justice and The Fur-Bearers have filed an application for judicial review in Quebec Superior Court over the government’s tolerance of fur farming. The groups ...

The Community Foundation of the North State announced its 2025 Animal Welfare Grant recipients, a total of $28,200, for animal care nonprofits across Shasta, Siskiyou and Tehama counties. The grants, ...

The National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) site at Rousset in Provence – which has spent decades breeding primates for scientific experiments – aims to triple its population to 1,800 animals ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is phasing out research conducted on monkeys, according to a new report. Scientists routinely use rhesus and pig-tailed macaques, housed at the ...

A deadly conflict between rival groups of chimpanzees in Uganda led to comprehensive victory and a bounty of territory and food — does it show why humans go to war? When you purchase through links on ...

The origin of organisms with complex cells, known as eukaryotes, is one of the most crucial parts of life’s evolutionary story. All animals, plants, and fungi are eukaryotes, and if complex cells had ...

Most people think humans are the only species capable of understanding numbers, but that’s not actually true. There are ...

New video shows sharks swimming through hoops, and picking them up with their noses. It sure looks like they are having fun. But researchers are divided. A California horn shark (Heterodontus ...

What would you sacrifice to push efforts forward on eliminating diseases? What about to make sure our products and medicines are safe, especially for our most vulnerable?These questions lead us to ...

So, how do the animals that live in snowy landscapes adapt to survive freezing temperatures? From furry noses to group hugs, here are a few of the ingenious ways they stay warm an ...