Some animals follow patterns that baffle even the sharpest researchers. Whales beach themselves in mass numbers. Goats topple ...

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Beyond factors like genetics and environment, animal personality is also shaped by something more fundamental: the species ...

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 ...

Researchers are using an innovative 3D-printing technique that could revolutionize the quest to resurrect extinct animals ...

The author of Why Animal Research Needs a New Communication Strategy tries to turn documented failures of oversight and performance in use of animals for biomedical research into a messaging problem.

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High Quality Research, also called Red Beast Enterprises, closed its lab in Fort Collins in May 2026.

A man who thought he would become an engineer shared why he chose animal science at the University of Ilorin. He graduated as ...