The elephants are packing their trunks. By any standard, today’s decision by the Ringling Circus to phase out its elephant acts represents a seismic shift in the use of…
One of the six major glaciers being eroded from below by warm water What does it mean when two major studies this week tell us that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is…
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South Korean scientists have created a dog who glows green under fluorescent light. The researchers explained that the ability to glow can be turned on or off by adding an antibiotic to the dog’s food. The beagle, named Tegon, was born in 2009.
Tibetan Buddhists on a boat sprayed the lobsters with blessed water, removed the bands binding their claws and gently released them one by one into the ocean.
Kill a snake in America, and you’re likely to be considered a hero. Try it in Switzerland, and you’re likely to be arrested.
Animal protection groups are celebrating a Dutch court decision, which ruled that Morgan the orca should not be sent to a marine circus.
Yesterday evening, animal protection volunteers in Denmark cut holes in the fencing around a factory fur farm, opened the cages, and released about 3,000 minks – almost half of all the animals there.
“A blind cat is just a cat,” says Alana Miller of the Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary. “He has no clue he’s blind. He knows he’s a cat.” The rescue takes other special-needs cats.
Drummer Rikki Rockett doesn’t like zoos and deplores the idea of holding wildlife in captivity in what he calls the “exploitation of animals for profit.”
Scientists once thought that tool use was the defining feature of humans. Animals using tools is a a sign of extraordinary intelligence that shows an ability to manipulate an object.
Dian Fossey would probably have been turning over in her grave…if I hadn’t been standing on it. It’s in a small cemetery and you have to get close to read the gravestone.
In the sweltering heat of Libya, and with the staff having abandoned the Tripoli Zoo, the animals there are simply more “collateral damage” – and the most helpless of all since they have no way to fend for themselves.
“The huge number of sea monster sightings now on record can’t all be explained away as mistakes, sightings of known animals or hoaxes.”
Brandon Smith, a 21-year-old biology student, came downstairs for breakfast at his home in southern Colorado last week to find a black bear by the refrigerator.
Cougars aren’t common in Connecticut. So people were on alert after reported sightings in and around the toney town of Greenwich, especially after a big cat was spotted near some schools.
Birds’ smoothing each other’s plumage was mostly thought to be simply part of their bathing routine. But we’ve now learned that, like other animals, they do it to relax – just like a massage, and often after a busy bout of foraging for food.
Why would a kangaroo come bounding into someone’s backyard and attack? Unless provoked, wild animals have no reason to harm humans.
It’s the season for weddings, and Fido is no longer staying at home on the big day. Pets aren’t just guests at weddings; they’re part of the ceremony.
While it doesn’t bother ethics experts much when genes are mixed from two non-human animals, it’s much more alarming when they create human-other chimeras.
Is it OK to inject human cells into other animals like laboratory mice and create hybrids?
She’s the ultimate cat lady. And Lynea Lattanzio does it in style at her 12-acre California sanctuary, Cat House on the Kings. It’s all no-kill, and it includes a clinic, low-cost spay/neuter, an adoption center, and a home-style environment for all the kitties
Too hot? Too cold? Get used to it: this is what climate change is all about. The facts are now indisputable: The Earth is warming up, and we are largely responsible.