This article was originally published on the Michigan State University website and has been reprinted with permission. Brian ...

The claim originated from reports published by the conservative-led nonprofit White Coat Waste, which aims to end animal ...

The goal is not to replace farmers, but to give them tools that improve animal welfare and make farms more profitable.

Birds that feed on nectar or fruit evolved better mechanisms for managing metabolism, blood pressure and high glucose.

The National Institutes of Health recently announced plans to convert one of its long-standing primate research centers into an animal sanctuary. The decision builds on broader bipartisan mo ...

A new study provides a comprehensive global synthesis of how vessel traffic affects large marine wildlife, including whales, ...

A key characteristic of modern human society is rapid urbanization, a process that can reshape natural environments and disrupt the habitats of many organisms. One widespread byproduct of urbanization ...

Which animals came first? For more than a century, most evidence suggested that sponges, immobile filter-feeders that lack muscles, neurons and other specialized tissues, were the first animal ...

In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of Kyle Chayka’s column, Infinite Scroll. Chayka will return in March. Jane Goodall, the late primatologist, was known ...

In Sturt National Park, near Tibooburra in central Australia where temperatures can range from freezing to nearly 50°C, there lives a small bird with a white back, forked tail and—as we've just ...

Alice Barratt receives funding from Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment and the Australian Bird Study Association. Christopher Turbill receives funding from the ...