In this column, @SmokiesLife intern writer Hannah Early examines lichen and biodiversity in Great Smoky Mountains National ...

As the Trump administration reshapes biomedicine, it wants to change how scientists test drug safety: animal research.

The portrayal of uncaring scientists without any thought for the animals being used in their research is far from the truth.

Animal research remains critically important in the work of preventing, treating and eradicating debilitating diseases, write OHSU's chief research officer Peter Barr-Gillespie and primate ...

In Milwaukee, Wisconsin Humane Society foster specialist Lauren Zimmer places a beagle puppy in a crate after it arrived from a breeding and research facility in Cumberland, Virginia, on Aug. 9 ...

New research in PLOS Biology found that this is not a static talent, but rather one that the animals improve throughout their lives, learning to fish for the insects by age 2 or so, and steadily ...

In 2022, a judge ruled that the National Institutes of Health, which owns the chimps, was violating the law by refusing to move the animals to a wooded sanctuary in Louisiana. Earlier this year ...

But the mirror test is geared toward animals that are primarily visual. Many species — such as snakes — rely primarily on their sense of smell, Dr. Miller said. In 2017, researchers devised an ...