Dr. Larson and his colleagues conducted a detailed analysis of DNA 1,375 dogs of 121 breeds, along with 19 wolves. They found that all the modern breeds of dog had been so mixed that their early genetic history was impossible to see.
As the tide begins to turn in the battle to save the lives of chimpanzees in laboratories, the laboratory that conducts most of those experiments is…
“When you walk in, all of these sows are showing this volume of insanity. They’re swaying, they’re biting the bars, they’re listing in front of the…
Chimpanzees don’t pretend to each other that the wars they’re fighting are “good wars” – fought for ethical purposes, in which “we” are on the “good” side. That’s a uniquely human wrinkle on violence.
This little piggy didn’t go to market. Instead, Olivia, as she is now known, is living with her forever family. Several weeks ago, Olivia fell off a truck along Interstate 80 in Iowa. A driver who saw what had happened stopped, picked up the piglet, and took her to Animal Rescue League of Iowa (ARLI).
My camera couldn’t do justice to the eclipse last night, but here are a couple of photos that capture exactly what it looked like from outside…
For more than two months, independent scientists, government agencies and oil company employees have been examining the bodies of dead dolphins who have been washing ashore by the hundreds on the beaches of Peru.
High above the Indian ocean, a geo-stationary Russian weather satellite captures high-resolution photos of the planet. Videographer James Drake has put the images together into a…
The refrigerator cabinets are stuffed with ground beef, chicken pieces, meatballs, bacon, everything you’d expect to see at the butcher’s shop. Except that there’s no meat in any of them.
When a woman in Malaysia reported her cat missing, the Malacca SPCA decided it was time to go snooping. After all, this was just the latest…
An Italian canine da pastore Bergamasco It was all bark, no bite when a parliamentary commission in Italy proposed to help cut the massive debt by…
Scientist Stephen Hawking argues that since one day we may have to leave Planet Earth, we may as well get started on the project. But if…
Next time you’re in Vienna, drop by the Café Neko. Best go in the evening because some of the staff are snoozing all day. Café Neko…
In August 1970, TV cameras were on hand as seven orcas (killer whales) were captured off the coast of Seattle and taken to marine circuses like SeaWorld and the Miami Seaquarium.
That means that the bond between humans and dogs was much stronger than simply the old “guarding the cave and getting a bone in return” idea, and that humans recognized an enormous dependence on their new best friends.
Some of our closest cousins, like the howler monkey in this photo, are finding it harder to escape from climate change fast enough. A new study,…
A bill that’s described as supporting hunting and gun rights is not only bad for the animals; it’s even poisoning the hunters! The Sportsmen’s Heritage Act would allow people to keep using lead ammunition and tackle when hunting and fishing.
It’s bad enough that animals at factory farms are being dosed up with antibiotics. Now we’re learning that they’re getting a whole other source of antibiotics, too – not just the kinds that come directly from the pharmaceutical industry.
By Seamus McAfee An orphaned orangutan who tried to escape from a snare in the Indonesian rainforest by chewing off his own hand is recovering at…
In a darkly satiric story in The Onion, Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another says he hopes that he won’t have to run another race like that one.