Tiny Musky Rat-Kangaroos Hold the Key to Explain Why 'Roos Hop Mar. 19, 2025 — To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris ...

IT’S a sweltering Wednesday afternoon in the mountainous town of Chimanimani. Everyone appears to be minding their business at a mobile equipment workshop located in the eastern parts of the ...

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 ...

Nature is full of amazing creatures that evolved in fascinating ways. Sometimes, these evolutionary paths lead to physical features that seem downright baffling at first glance. From body parts that ...

Mar. 19, 2025 — To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only ...

The main cast of Animal Control are all returning for season 3, as Joel McHale, Michael Rowland, Vella Lovell, Ravi Patel, Grace Palmer and Gerry Dee were all mentioned in the official Animal Control ...

Rational argument about the right and wrong way to treat animals is made more difficult by the deep love that many of us feel for animals. For philosophers it raises fundamental questions about ...

An observational study on wild mangabeys using a Bayesian method to estimate vocal repertoire size finds that vocal sequence diversity and length remain stable throughout ontogeny, indicating a ...

Most spider bites cause local pain, redness and swelling. It's much like a bee sting reaction. A few spiders (such as the Black Widow) can cause a more severe reaction. Helpful if spider seen on the ...