As cephalopods become more important in neuroscience and other fields, scientists and welfare advocates seek to give the smart animals the same protections as mice and monkeys.

Today is Show And Tell in Eddie's class. He shares photos of all the animals he saw at the zoo that are mammals. Barry learns he is allergic to a cat which is cat-tastic. The teacher shares a ...

Lab rats have rights. Before researchers in the United States can experiment on the animals, they need approval from committees that ensure they follow federal regulations for housing and handling ...

Lab rats have rights. Before researchers in the United States can experiment on the animals, they need approval from committees that ensure they follow federal regulations for housing and handling ...

If you've ever seen a dolphin swim, you may have wondered why they undulate their bodies up and down when swimming, instead of side to side as fishes do. Though they have a fishlike body, cetaceans (a ...

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Dolphins swim, horses gallop, and humans walk on two legs -- mammals are able to move in lots of different ways. That's because we have unique backbones. And scientists exploring how mammals ...

First, the assumption that humans are different to animals because they have evolved higher intelligence is akin to saying vertebrates aren’t animals because they have backbones.

Murphy and Westerman collated vision data for 446 species of animals spanning four phyla. One of these phyla contained vertebrates -- animals that have backbones, such as fish and humans.

The article delved into ancient species like Dendrogramma, Coelacanth, and Emperor Scorpion, which have survived for hundreds of millions of years. These animals offer insights into life's history ...

Researchers have long puzzled over the peculiar innards of an ancient sea creature. A new study says scientists were looking at the Pikaia fossil the wrong way.

Many insects also have tails, but they evolved separately from other animals with backbones, like fish and mammals.