Animals

The US Environmental Protection Agency is launching a new program to adopt some of its 20,000 lab animals in the wake of Trump administration plans to dramatically cut the regulator’s …

Green anole lizards can regenerate their tails after injury, an ability that could inform treatments for people.Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty After an injury, some flatworms can regrow almost every …

But the full picture is not so simple. Weight loss isn’t always healthy and neither is restricting your calorie intake, especially if your BMI is low to begin with. Some …

If male baboons were subject to the same kind of cultural commentary as humans, the phrase “deadbeat dads” might be called for, such is the primate’s relatively limited involvement in …

See How Animals Sculpt the Planet This tally of animals’ effect on Earth’s geology, equivalent to that of thousands of extreme floods, most likely is an underestimate By Cody Cottier …

“Heritable Genetic Modification in Food Animals,” a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, was written by a committee of experts, including William Muir, professor emeritus …

A $100,000 prize for communicating with animals has been scooped by researchers who have shed light on the meaning of dolphins’ whistles. The Coller-Dolittle Prize for Two-way Inter-species Communication was …