Research in the late 1990s showed that not only do some rats laugh when being tickled, such behavior can be selected for ...

A doggy daycare worker has shared her honest opinions on eight breeds she would never want to own based on her experience - ...

Scores are based on both time and accuracy, with penalty points if, for example, canines bound off seesaws and ramps without setting foot in the end section. To instill that habit, a handler might get ...

Currently pursuing her college degree in animal science, Claire DiMenna is providing a haven for 90 animals on a 70-acre former potato farm in Riverhead.

A duplicated gene evolved into a switch that determines sex in frogs, revealing how evolution can safely reshape critical ...

Well, not now – but a paper published in Genome Biology in 2006 concluded that after humans and chimpanzees cleaved from each other around 6 million years ago, they continued to interbreed for at ...