In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

Horses and People' licenses an online horse welfare assessment course to the University of New England. Amy Lykins has ...

The Trump administration is curbing animal experiments in response to shifts in public opinion, technological advances, years of animal rights advocacy and the work of a conservative activist.

Have you ever wondered why moose in Alaska are larger than their southern relatives? Have you considered why many Arctic mammals appear bulkier than species living closer to the equator? There’s a ...

You might have a love-hate relationship with daylight saving time, but research shows that urban wildlife may stand to benefit ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges. Hidden inside rocks over 541 million years old are rare molecular “fingerprints ...

King penguins are adapting to climate change in a way that seems to help them breed successfully, which is unusual.

Hoppers is as chaotic as it is delightful. The latest animated comedy from Disney and Pixar, the movie centers on 19-year-old Mabel, who transfers—or “hops”—her consciousness into a robot beaver’s ...

Bringing extinct animals back sounds like science fiction, but it’s becoming real science. Companies like Colossal want to revive species like the dodo and woolly mammoth using cloning and ...