This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Isaac Newton would never have discovered the laws of motion had he studied only cats. Suppose you hold a cat, stomach up, and drop it from a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Prescription drugs indicated for use in veterinary medicine can be ...

In this session, government, industry, and other animal research regulation stakeholders discussed the feasibility of developing core principles governing the use of animals in research (key points ...

Americans cherish the availability and affordability of a vast food supply. At the same time, we expect the foods we choose to buy and eat to be clean, fresh, and not contaminated with debris, ...

The ever-growing field of animal healing called zoopharmacognosy refers to behaviors animals use to medicate themselves or their relatives by ingesting or topically applying plants, soils, and insects ...

Animals from different species often rely on surprisingly sophisticated communication to work together, whether finding food, cleaning parasites, or gaining protection. New research suggests these ...

This post is in response to Do Cows Use Tools? New Research Says Yes By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Veronika using a brush as a tool to scratch various parts of her body. Source: A. J. Osuna-Mascaró/with ...

Lon Kendall, DVM, PhD, DACLAM - received his veterinary degree from Colorado State University in 1994, completed a residency in laboratory animal medicine in 1997, and completed a PhD in veterinary ...

An understanding of numbers is often viewed as a distinctly human faculty—a hallmark of our intelligence that, along with language, sets us apart from all other animals. Practically every animal that ...