Did you know that approximately 70 billion land animals are raised and slaughtered for food globally each year This staggering figure underscores the profoun ...

Studies of animal ethology began long ago, but today’s popular animal cognition books largely began with Stanley Coren in 1994, the year he published The Intelligence of Dogs. Coren had been a highly ...

Megin Nichols, the CDC’s director in the division of foodborne, waterborne and environmental diseases, explains the ties ...

Scientists at the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) in Dummerstorf and the University of Udine have detected ...

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In the largest study of its kind, scientists have accurately documented the massive change in animal morphology over the last 1,000 years, with domesticated animals growing larger across the board and ...