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A polarized debate in biomedical research is pitting those who favour ‘traditional animal models’ — meaning living non-human mammals, such as mice, that are used to…

Collections of human cells generated from different sources can be used to test new drugs. Credit: Lewis Houghton/SPLWhen it comes to evaluating drugs or understanding basic…

A few dozen large nests appear in the mist of equatorial dawn, half-hidden behind a tangle of vines and leaves. That is where the bonobos sleep,…

Bats are generally viewed as harmless, if spooky, creatures of the night. But scientists have revealed a more savage side, after witnessing a greater noctule bat…

Another day, another cute story about how dogs can grasp elements of human language and use them to communicate with us.First, there was Mr Waffles, the…

During the final months of 1960, in what is now Gombe national park, Tanzania, Jane Goodall, then 26 years old, made two discoveries that established her…

Labour faces further scrutiny of its record on animal welfare after a high court judge allowed permission for a challenge to the legalisation of the harmful…

One of Europe’s largest salmon farmers has been accused of attacking the civil rights of environmental campaigners by asking for sweeping restrictions on their freedom to…

Name: Quadrobics.Age: New and sprightly.Quadrobics? That’s got to be a workout for your quads – short for quadriceps femoris, the group of muscles at the front…

Animal welfare campaigners allege that a “harrowing series of welfare abuses” have taken place at one of England’s oldest working trout farms in a tourist hotspot…