“It all started from an accidental observation,” says Li Zhang, a systems neuroscientist at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). While conducting laboratory ...

Most Americans have no idea their taxes are regularly being used to torture animals, but your taxes are being used to torture puppies and turn mice transgender.

By revealing for the first time what happens in the brain when an animal makes a mistake, Johns Hopkins University ...

As spring awakens the natural world, unexpected creatures — from mice to a mysterious short-tailed shrew — find their way ...

New active ingredients such as antibodies are usually tested individually in laboratory animals. Researchers at UZH have now ...

Earlier this month, science delivered a really cute experimental result. Researchers created a “colossal woolly mouse,” a ...

From the bumblebee bat to the Baluchistan pygmy jerboa, here are eight of the world's smallest mammals who thrive in a world built for giants.

In Australia’s arid and semi-arid zones lives a highly elusive predator. It’s small but fierce and feisty, with big eyes, ...

This valuable study characterises the activity of motor units from two of the three anatomical subdivisions ("heads") of the triceps muscle while mice walked on a treadmill at various speeds. Although ...

At a recent address before Congress, President Trump asserted that the U.S. is spending millions to make mice transgender. I ...

Since then, the company has focused on identifying key traits of extinct animals by studying ancient DNA ... They nicknamed the extra-furry rodents as the “Colossal woolly mouse.” Results were posted ...

Better to safeguard our existing animals and the Earth than resurrect extinct species or flee to another planet.